Forward of WWDC 2026, which is now confirmed to kick off on June 8, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shared a number of particulars concerning the upcoming iOS and iPadOS 27 updates, together with the standalone Siri app. It’s described as a ChatGPT and Claude-style chatbot app serving as a one-stop store for a broad vary of duties. The app will embody previous consumer conversations and is reportedly positioned to be ad-free and supply auto-deleting chats.
Gurman additionally particulars Apple’s extended deal with consumer privateness, which pressured the corporate to delay its AI assistant because it goals to deal with consumer knowledge by itself servers. The brand new Siri will allegedly be primarily based on Apple Basis Fashions, however with Google Gemini doing the heavy lifting. This additionally means the consumer knowledge safety for extra demanding AI duties might be dealt with by Google.
Elsewhere, iOS 27 is anticipated to carry new system-wide AI writing instruments, which might be extra succesful than the presently obtainable Apple Intelligence choices. Apple is outwardly testing a “Write With Siri” toggle on the prime of the keyboard, which is able to give out ideas and grammar checking capabilities.
Customers can have the choice to approve or ignore typing modifications and navigate between flagged textual content picks. Apple can also be bringing a “Assist Me Write” possibility when Siri is activated inside an open textual content area.
Apple can also be engaged on system-wide shortcuts utilizing pure language, new AI wallpaper era and several other enhancing instruments contained in the Photographs app. Shortcuts can also be getting an overhaul with the power to create actions from consumer prompts.