iOS 27: What We Know About the New Siri App

[MacRumors]

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will include a standalone Siri app for the first time, providing a dedicated space for interfacing with Siri, reports Bloomberg.

Siri Chatbot

Apple needs a Siri app because Siri is turning into a chatbot. Siri will work like ChatGPT or Claude, able to pull information from the web to provide answers to questions.

Siri will be integrated into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS at the system level, and can draw on device information. It will know more personal context than before, and will be able to access emails, texts, photos, calendar information, contacts, notes, and other personal data. Some of what Siri will be able to do:

• Search the web for information
• Generate images
• Generate content
• Summarize information
• Analyze uploaded files
• Use personal data to complete tasks
• Write emails, notes, and texts
• Control device features and settings
• Search for on-device content, pulling information from emails, messages, files, and more

Siri will be integrated into Apple apps like Mail, Messages, Photos, and Apple TV.
Siri App Design

The standalone Siri app will look similar to the ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini apps. Bloomberg shared a mockup of what the Siri app will look like.

Siri will support text or voice-based conversations. The app will open with an "Ask Siri" bar where users can type in a question. A paperclip icon will be available for attaching images, PDFs, and other documents. Apple will provide prompts with suggestions on what users can ask.

Questions will resemble iMessage chat bubbles, with Apple adopting a design that is familiar to users. Responses will include links, images, and other information.

A section of the app will be dedicated to past conversations that can be shown in a card-style interface with conversation summaries, or a list view. Users will be able to tap into a conversation to continue it.

Dark Interface

Apple's Siri interface both inside and outside of the dedicated Siri app will adopt dark colors. Apple's WWDC website hints at the colors it plans to use for Siri.

The website features the Swift bird logo in white on a black background, with subtle highlights in pink, dark blue, purple, and orange. The colors are reminiscent of the current Siri animation that surrounds the iPhone's display when Siri is activated, but the shades are softer and not as saturated.

WWDC 2026

The updated version of Siri will be unveiled at WWDC 2026, which is set to begin on Monday, June 8 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

Article Link: iOS 27: What We Know About the New Siri App

 

[Mac152]

Will this be available to iPhones that don’t support Apple Intelligence?

 

[Schtibbie]

Will this be available to iPhones that don’t support Apple Intelligence?

I’m guessing not. I have a 15 and I expect to not get any of that new Siri and Gemini integration stuff. But: I happen to use the actual Gemini app on this phone and it works great.

 

[jb310]

Sounds like using the Gemini app, just with better integration...? 🤔

 

[Todd Fisher]

Considering that Siri has sucked my entire life, the bar is already quite low.
And 100% facts, if SJ was still alive he would have thrown another iPhone across the stage and then fired the entire Siri team a long time ago.

As a 100% Apple only user since 1994, I sure hope that they finally make Siri useable.

I have my doubts tho.

 

[JET3]

These recycled stories are getting out of hand. Why do we have to keep seeing the exact same posts rewritten every day? Nothing new, so we'll keep rewriting last week's posts. Are people getting paid for this?

 

[IIGS User]

I’m sure it will be awesome. Like Siri has always been!

 

[Biro]

“Siri will be integrated into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS at the system level, and can draw on device information.”

If this is true, can Siri be turned off going forward? For that matter, will device owners be able to uninstall the Siri app?

 

[NLLV]

I can't wait to find out how Apple crippled this and then never use it, and end up turning it OFF or removing it if I can.
I use AI extensively and pay for GPT/Claude/Gemini/GenSpark ... they all have their strengths, and just based on everything about how Apple operates, this will NOT compete.

 

[kurtfoster]

“Siri will be integrated into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS at the system level, and can draw on device information.”

If this is true, can Siri be turned off going forward? For that matter, will device owners be able to uninstall the Siri app?

Can it be turned off going forward, probably. Can the app be uninstalled? I doubt it.

 

[gummybear2026]

Only an idiot would use personal data to complete tasks with Siri.

 

[diblasio]

We’re at the edge of something here. I remember when yall made jokes about iPad, iPod, iTunes…

 

[Stehsegler9]

I'd be happy with a Siri that actually understands what I am saying.

For example when I say "cancel the timer" it should cancel the timer rather then responding with "here is something I found on the web"

 

[dannyyankou]

I'd be happy with a Siri that actually understands what I am saying.

For example when I say "cancel the timer" it should cancel the timer rather then responding with "here is something I found on the web"

I just set a 5 minute timer and tried this, and Siri cancelled the timer.

 

[Stehsegler9]

I just set a 5 minute timer and tried this, and Siri cancelled the timer.

On HomePod is works sometimes... but fails 100% of the time if you have more than one timer running.

 

[switz]

Siri works well setting a 11 minute 15 second timer for the coffee pot every morning so I know when it is ready when elsewhere in the house. Much more complex and all bets are off.....

 

[gummybear2026]

We’re at the edge of something here. I remember when yall made jokes about iPad, iPod, iTunes…

Siri is at the edge of the cliff dangling by a fingernail.

 

[julesme]

I hate to be the one saying, “I’ll believe it when I see it,” but are we supposed to expect ANY of this advanced Siri stuff to actually work in the foreseeable future?

 

[WinstonSmyth]

I'm guessing they will announce it as coming later this year, then sometime in the late fall it will announced that it should be available sometime in 2027, assuming by the time 2027 comes around most of will have forgotten about.

 

[Takeo]

Safe to assume (I hope) light mode will be an option… because my eyes can’t handle dark mode.

 

[huge_apple_fangirl]

After seeing the reaction to Copilot on Windows and the complete consumer indifference to the lack of AI gimmicks on iPhone 17, why is Apple deciding now is the time to go all in on this? I already disable "Hey, Siri" and never use it and I don't plan to use this ChatGPT knockoff. Although it is genius of Apple to offload all those inference costs onto Google for just $1B a year.

 

[sloheim]

Its like nobody here has ever used an Apple product.

We all know that Apple always promises the world. We all know that everything they deliver is always late. And we all know that when they eventually DO release something, its usually pretty damned good.

 

[HazeAndHahmahneez]

What to know about the new Siri/ai stuff is goog runs it so turn it off peace

 

[carswell]

“Siri will be integrated into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS at the system level, and can draw on device information.”

If this is true, can Siri be turned off going forward? For that matter, will device owners be able to uninstall the Siri app?

Apple won't let me uninstall the Podcasts app, which I haven't used in years on my phone and have never used on my watch, from my Apple Watch. Ditto the Stocks and Music apps from my MacBook. So the chances they'll let us uninstall the heavily integrated new Siri app are close to zero. The best we can hope for is an off switch.

 

[svish]

Hopefully the app will function properly. Eager to test it out. Very possible that Apple can introduce subscription for this in the future.