Apple to Unveil the New Siri at WWDC 2026 in June

Mark Gurman reported today that Apple will finally unveil the new Siri this June at its annual WWDC conference and will begin rolling it out in iOS 27 and other ’27 platform releases in the fall. Apple originally promised this software two years ago.

I’ve lost track of the delays and I guess it’s not critical at this time beyond noting that the first new Siri features were most recently expected in iOS 26.4, which shipped publicly today. But we learned in mid-February that even this late release was unlikely, and now it appears we have even longer to wait.

According to Gurman, Apple is now planning a standalone Siri app, similar to the apps for OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, and a new “Ask Siri” feature that will work across the Apple ecosystem. The standalone app, codenamed “Campo,” will resemble Apple Messages and provide a central place to access previous conversations.

But the most significant change here, perhaps, is that the Siri app will also control features in Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps and “tap into” the user’s personal data across email, notes, and messages to complete requests. It will also complete tasks in apps, access news content, and search the web, Gurman says. In other words, it will work like other chatbots, though Apple is unlikely to market it that way.

Users will interact with the Siri app using voice or text, and it will support the conversational style that Apple first promised two years ago. Apple is experimenting with letting us bring up the app by pressing the device’s power button, but it will also support launching by voice, as now, and it may come with a redesigned launch animation that differs from the pink and purple glowing edge seen today.

Apple is also experimenting with putting Siri in the Dynamic Island on iPhones. Users will be able to pull down the Dynamic Island-based pane that appears and use the full app if desired.

As for “Ask Siri,” this will be a system-wide toggle that will appear in menus throughout apps on each supported platform. You will be able to access it when you select text, or have questions about anything on-screen. Apple is testing a related “Write with Siri” feature that will appear at the top of the on-screen keyboard and surface the Writing Tools menu.

Finally, Gurman says that Apple is also expanding its App Intents work so that Siri can more precisely control its apps and, I assume, third-party apps. It will eventually allow Siri to navigate app user interfaces via voice, similar to work that Google, Microsoft, and others are working on for their chatbots.