Eleven days before WWDC 2026, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman published the first detailed look at Apple’s revamped Siri, complete with rendered illustrations based on internal sources.
The leaks show a standalone Siri app with conversation history, a “Search or Ask” panel triggered by swiping down from anywhere in iOS, and rich result cards that expand from the Dynamic Island. It appears to be the most significant rethink of Siri since its launch in 2011.
The new assistant lives inside the Dynamic Island, Apple’s pill-shaped screen cutout introduced with the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022. Activating it expands the island with a glowing animation. A second entry point — swiping down from the top center of the screen — opens a full text-and-voice search panel that effectively replaces Spotlight. Swipe further and you reach the Siri app itself, with a scrollable history of previous conversations.
The dedicated Siri app supports document and photo uploads, persistent voice mode, and a drop-down menu letting users route queries to ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Claude directly from the interface. Apple is also reportedly testing ways to open iOS 27 to third-party AI agents installed through the App Store.
The road to WWDC
Apple first showed a “personalized Siri” at WWDC 2024 — one that would understand your screen, messages, and calendar. The company officially delayed that upgrade in March 2025, citing quality problems, and a class action lawsuit followed. A federal court approved a $250 million settlement earlier this month over claims Apple marketed AI features that “did not exist at the time.” Eligible iPhone 15 and 16 buyers can claim up to $95 per device.
The rebuilt Siri’s core functions won’t run on Apple’s own AI models. The company announced a deal with Google in late 2025 to license Gemini as the assistant’s foundation, reportedly paying around $1 billion a year.
OpenAI, which has had a ChatGPT integration inside iOS since 2024, is now reportedly working on a breach-of-contract claim, arguing the feature was buried so deep that most iPhone owners never found it. Users had to say “ChatGPT” explicitly to trigger it; Siri did not route queries there automatically.
The new multi-provider drop-down in iOS 27 appears to be Apple’s attempt to address that dynamic — letting users choose their AI provider directly and building in discovery from the start.
What the renders show
Beyond the chatbot app, the Bloomberg illustrations show Siri integrated into the Camera app as a dedicated capture mode, replacing the current Visual Intelligence button. Users would be able to take a photo and send it to a third-party AI — Google for reverse image search, ChatGPT for analysis — without leaving the camera.
Apple is also reportedly adding AI editing tools to Photos, including a Reframe tool that adjusts perspective and an Extend feature that fills in portions of an image.
Source: iOS 27 Leaks Show Siri Rebuilt Around Google Gemini Ahead of WWDC