Apple Will Reportedly Transform Siri into a Chatbot Later This Year

Apple’s big Siri revamp has been a long time coming, and it will happen in two different stages this year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported yesterday. The first step will come with iOS 26.4 this Spring and bring new intelligent features to the assistant. The second step, coming later this fall, will turn Siri into a full-fledged AI chatbot.

According to Gurman, the Spring update for Siri will deliver features Apple promised back in 2024, such as onscreen awareness and the ability to leverage user and on-device information. It’s also expected to introduce a ChatGPT-like answer engine named World Knowledge Answers.

These new Siri features will reportedly leverage a new custom AI model from Google, which will run on Apple’s own Private Cloud Compute servers. Apple recently announced that it will adopt Google’s Gemini models to revamp its Siri assistant, and Gurman reported that Google’s technology will also power the chatbot version of Siri coming later this year with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27. However, Gurman mentioned that Apple and Google are “discussing hosting the chatbot directly on Google servers.”

The report reveals that Apple’s chatbot, currently codenamed Campos internally, will have both voice- and typing-based modes, and it will be deeply integrated into Apple’s core apps for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The chatbot will have on-screen awareness and be able to change settings on behalf of the user. However, Gurman reports that Apple may limit how much personal information its chatbot can remember “in the interest of privacy.”

Apple is expected to introduce Siri’s new chatbot capabilities in June during its annual WWDC developer conference. “Other than the chatbot interface, the operating systems aren’t getting big changes this year. Apple is more focused on improving performance and fixing bugs,” Gurman explained.

While Apple has a lot of catching up to do in the AI space, a separate report from The Information revealed yesterday that the company is also working on an AI wearable pin that could be the size of an AirTag. The device will come with cameras and microphones to understand its surroundings, but it may not be ready until 2027.