Apple wants Siri to do more than answer one request at a time, and the change could arrive as early as 2027, according to journalist Mark Gurman. Apple has not said anything about it.
In his Power On newsletter on 8 November, Gurman compares Siri with assistants such as OpenAI’s Dots, Meta’s Muse and Grok, which keep working on an objective between requests. Gurman says his sources describe that as Apple’s eventual goal, and his own expectation is a more agent-like Siri within a year. The personalised Siri that came with iOS 27 still waits for each instruction. The report does not say what an agent version would be allowed to do or which devices would get it.
The meeting, Gurman says, was a message from Ternus to Federighi: patching Siri is not enough, and the plan must “move quickly beyond merely making necessary improvements to Siri”. It comes days after Apple reportedly capped staff AI spending at $200 a day.
The process behind Apple’s software has shifted too. Each year’s operating systems are built in three rounds, and a round is normally eight weeks: four of coding, then four of “convergence” in which finished features are merged. For iOS 28 and macOS 28, Gurman says the first round was six weeks of building and experimenting and only two of merging. Engineers reportedly like having more room to try ideas. He named no iOS 28 features. A beta is expected in June next year and the release in September.
This is one reporter’s account of what he was told, so the 2027 timing is his belief and not an Apple plan.
