Report: Apple Wants Siri to Act on Multiple Requests at Once

As part of its long-awaited updates for Siri, Apple is reportedly testing the ability for its AI assistant to understand and process multiple requests in a single command. This new capability, which would help to bring Siri up to the level of rival chatbots, may ship later this fall with the release of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported yesterday.

“The feature would let users combine requests — for example, asking Siri to check the weather, create a calendar appointment and send a message — all within a single prompt. Siri currently requires users to make requests individually, making it a laggard in the AI space,” Gurman explained.

In a previous report, Gurman revealed that Apple was planning to make Siri available as a standalone app on its upcoming ’27 software releases. This new Siri app will offer a familiar chat interface, similar to how ChatGPT and other AI chatbots work, and Google is developing it using Google’s Gemini models.

This new version of Siri should be able to understand what’s on the screen as well as users’ personal context. It should also be more “open” than the current version of the assistant that can hand off requests to ChatGPT: A new Extensions API will reportedly make it possible for Siri to connect with any third-party AI chatbot.

Gurman had one last scoop in his latest report about Apple’s upcoming features, and that’s a new intelligent keyboard that helps users improve their writing by suggesting alternative words, similar to what the popular writing assistant Grammarly can do. However, Gurman said that Apple hasn’t decided yet to include this new system keyboard in its next major software releases.