Pressure on the timeline
Apple is seeking to make Siri an assistant capable of carrying out tasks more autonomously. Bloomberg reports this via Mark Gurman, according to whom CEO John Ternus is pressuring head of AI Craig Federighi to accelerate Siri's roadmap. The stated goal is an AI agent capable of competing with products such as OpenAI's Dots or Meta's Muse.
According to Gurman's account, Federighi has already delivered a working AI-based version of Siri in a very short timeframe. However, Apple reportedly has no illusions about keeping pace with competitors. This is a statement attributed to the source, not a fact independently verifiable from the available material.
The two expected developments
The first step concerns control of Apple's first-party apps. Siri should be able to perform detailed actions within these applications, such as rotating and cropping images in Photos or organizing Safari tabs. These features are expected with iOS 27.3.
The more significant change, however, concerns integration with third-party apps, which Gurman says is expected in spring. In that case, Siri could, for example, place an order via Grubhub or book dinner through OpenTable. These are examples cited by the source to illustrate the type of activities enabled.
From a single request to a continuous task
The next step is toward a more agentic Siri, capable of carrying out extended tasks, not just isolated requests. According to Gurman, Dots, Muse and Grok are able to keep track of objectives, determine next steps and continue toward the goal without the user initiating every single action. Apple reportedly intends to move in the same direction and, again according to the source, could make Siri more like an agent as early as next year.
On this point, actual timing, precise features and scope remain to be verified. The material does not indicate which third-party apps will be involved beyond the examples cited, nor how permissions and user control will be handled. Official Apple confirmation of the indicated deadlines is also not available.
Why it matters
The news signals a shift in the competitive comparison: no longer only the quality of an assistant's responses, but its ability to act concretely within services and applications. If confirmed, the move from control of Apple apps to that of third-party apps would significantly expand the functions attributed to Siri. However, the available information does not make it possible to establish how widely these capabilities will be available, for which users and with what limitations.
