Apple wants Siri to do more than answer a request and leave the user to finish the job. A planned version of the assistant would carry out tasks across Apple apps and third-party services, though the most ambitious features are expected to arrive in stages.
From answering to acting
The planned Siri would be able to handle requests such as booking a restaurant table or ordering food through services like OpenTable and Uber Eats. The aim is for the assistant to take the necessary steps itself, rather than simply point the user toward an app.
Apple also plans more precise controls for its own apps. In one example, a user could ask Siri to find a photo, edit it and send it to a chosen person, without manually switching between apps.
The distinction matters for anyone who has asked a digital assistant to help with a task and found that the final several taps are still their own. The reported plan would give Siri more of those steps, though how reliably it will carry them out remains to be seen.
A phased release
Some features for Apple's own apps could arrive in December 2026 with iOS 27.3. Integration with third-party apps is expected in spring 2027, possibly in iOS 27.5 or iOS 27.6, ahead of WWDC in June. Those dates are expectations, not confirmed release commitments.
Apple plans to develop more complex autonomous tasks during 2027. One previously announced example would let Siri find weak passwords in an Apple account and change them on the relevant websites and in the Passwords app.
An agent, with limits
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple's new CEO, John Ternus, is pushing to make Siri a full AI agent. Ternus has had to persuade software engineering chief Craig Federighi, whom Gurman describes as skeptical of AI.
Even with the planned changes, Siri would not yet match agents capable of independently managing complex projects such as building and refining websites. Apple intends to expand its independence gradually.
Gurman argues that Apple can afford a more cautious pace because it controls both its devices and software. He also sees a potential challenge to that advantage if competitors develop hardware of their own. For now, the proposed test for Siri is more modest: take an ordinary request and actually finish it.