The MacRumors Show: Apple's Upcoming Siri Chatbot and AI Pin

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss Apple's plan to turn Siri into a chatbot with iOS 27, alongside plans for new hardware such as an AI pin.

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Apple reportedly plans to turn Siri into a chatbot that will rival Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and OpenAI's ChatGPT later this year. Apple's chatbot will apparently be able to search the web, generate content like images, help with coding, summarize information, and analyze uploaded files.

It will be able to leverage personal data on a user's device to complete tasks, and it will result in a much improved search feature. Apple is also said to be designing a feature that will let the Siri chatbot view open windows and on-screen content, as well as adjust device features and settings.

Siri will integrate directly into all Apple apps, including Photos, Mail, Messages, Music, and TV, and it will be able to access and analyze content in the apps to respond to queries and requests. There will be voice and typed interface options.

Apple plans to power the chatbot with a custom model based on Google Gemini. It may even run on Google's servers. The Siri chatbot will purportedly be the key new feature in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27.

In related news, Apple is said to be working on a small, wearable AI pin equipped with standard and wide-angle cameras to capture photos and videos, a speaker, microphones, and a physical control button. The pin is said to be similar in size to an AirTag, with a thin, flat, circular disc shape and an aluminum and glass design.

This week also saw rumors that Apple's smart home hub device will tout a robotic swiveling base, with a heavy emphasis on AI features. It is expected to finally be released in the spring, following a heavily delayed launch.

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[TonyC28]

One might say the new iPhone 18 is built for Siri. I swear I've heard that before 🤔

 

[aknabi]

Sad thing is with Apple's "new" rep (vs. the old "it just works" Apple I fell head over heels for) if it's a chatbot I'm betting on Siri to be more useless, annoying, frustrating and needlessly prudish than Gemini, Claude or ChatGPT.

I hope I lose that bet, but odds say it's safe one.

 

[Brother Cavil]

None of this sounds remotely exciting to me. This is catch-up, not innovation.

 

[Ursadorable]

"Siri will integrate directly into all Apple apps, including Photos, Mail, Messages, Music, and TV, and it will be able to access and analyze content in the apps to respond to queries and requests. There will be voice and typed interface options."

Starting to sound alot like Microslop's CoPilot.

I can't wait! "Hey Siri, disable Apple Intelligence"

 

[routine_analyst]

It's been 84 years since we first heard this rumor. You'd think a company worth 4T could manage to try out new product lines with all the resources, IP and market knowledge... I get the part of being last/best to a new product niche, but come on man. This one is pretty obvious.

Siri + HomeKit + Airport Basestation + HomePod + MagSafe + Elbow arm ($999 jk) + iPad = HomeStation with Mesh wifi 7+

 

[sjsharksfan12]

None of this sounds remotely exciting to me. This is catch-up, not innovation.

I have AI Fatigue already and it's only been a thing for like 3 years? Technology is passing me by and I might as well let it. I still miss the Ipod to this day.

 

[d-klumpp]

I enjoyed the conversation, as always. But is there any reason Dan can't just pour a glass of water? I would never interrupt my own Zoom calls to take a slug from such a gargantuan vessel. You can't tell me Dan doesn't have a simple pint glass within easy reach.

 

[Genelec8341]

Siri [OFF] / [ON]

 

[cocoua]

-ey siri send the latest picture from Photos to Sandy
-message to Sandy asking for hot pics sent

Cant wait for using this feature in 2032

 

[iBreatheApple]

The unfortunately present Apple cynic in me nowadays is thinking… can’t wait for them to announce intelligence capable devices somehow won’t have all the SiriAI features we already thought we were getting from the beginning… years ago…

 

[jbc25]

An AI pin really does not sound like the route Apple wants to go right now. But they've been making a lot of bad decisions lately so who knows...

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Option for “zero personality LLM with extremely short answers and no unprompted follow-ups, fake speaking breaths, nor personification”. Decidedly robotic and to the point. Stop the pretending your LLM is sorry when it’s computer software. Drop the bs. And increase the likelihood for “don’t know” rather than wasting ten minutes of talking in circles to a pretend human inside your phone who doesn’t know the answer but won’t admit it.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

An AI pin really does not sound like the route Apple wants to go right now. But they've been making a lot of bad decisions lately so who knows...

When the person at the top isn’t a product guy from the inside out then you’ve a rudderless boat. Doesn’t matter how reliable he is or good with numbers, he will lack that passion and inspiration that cannot be taught or learned. Tong Fadell or someone similar should be leading Apple. And whoever was to lead them should get rid of half the products they make and get right down to the core products and add another size for each one and move to two-year hardware and software upgrade schedule in a tick-tock rhythm of hardware year followed by software year.

Three sizes of regular iPhone and three sizes of premium iPhone… add 5.7” models with ultra-thin display bezels. Get rid of iPhone numbering, sub-branding (mini, plus, max) and all other iPhones. Move to naming iPhones by year, like motor vehicles, and put the year in Settings > About. Add a 13” MBP, change the middle size to 14.5” and the large size to 16.5”. Same for MBA though leave out the largest model (give MBA SD Card and HDMI). Leave behind MBP model without at least Pro chip. Add iMac Studio (~30” lamp design). Announce on stage you’re getting rid of Mac Pro and Mac Studio (but there’s one more thing) introduce new Mac Pro that’s a little bigger than Mac Studio and has even more front-facing ports and perhaps some user-upgradability alongside Extreme chips double the power of Ultra. Larger than Mac Studio—larger fan, chunkier cooling channels, vapor chamber, beefy heat sink and more robust internal power supply—show it has twice the power of any chip Apple has ever made and then show the G4 Cube, and how the new Mac Pro is like the original vision for the cube, but… half the vertical height and fifty times the power and runs twice as cool at full power. Bring back wired option for standard keyboard and intro a new wired Keyboard Pro with build in hub to save users having to reach around their Mac to plug in an SD Card or mobile USB drive, improved key travel with backlighting, alongside a redesigned mouse with ergonomics and practically in mind also available in a wired version without a battery compartment. Rename: Apple Display, Apple Display Pro. “Apple Mesh” Wifi. Comes with one satellite device with ability to add many more at checkout—suitable for home or office. Exit the movie and tv business and sell off content. Ten other companies have apps to cover video content—partner with them all by featuring their apps when users activate an Apple TV device—refocus company. Announce an Apple TV Ultra with AAA first-party games. Solve gaming on Apple TV and in time it’s solved for Mac too. Announce a fully drag-and-drop design app that’s both intuitive to use and very powerful, that can export files in industry standard file sizes and types for app icon, company logo and custom button design. Partner with Squarespace and others for the website bit, allowing the user to subscribe to and publish a custom designed side on SS using drag-and-drop, and without having to leave the Apple app. Xcode = build app. Apple Design = design custom buttons for app and any custom app interface including full library of standard app button tools, design company logo and company website that’s plugged into SS as all part of one neat and tidy project.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

The cameras on an Apple AI pin, which like the AI pins that have failed before it would presumably be attached to the front of one's shirt, T-shirt, blouse, dress, coat, corset, etc., would seem not to be intended to fully replace a more aimable camera (smartphone or otherwise), but rather to be the AI's eyes on the world in front of the wearer, so it could offer information to the wearer about what they're seeing. A good wide-angle lens might be almost as good at this as the cameras on some current smart glasses, without the user having to wear glasses, but one problem with a pin is in capturing what the wearer is actually looking at, since they could turn their head to look at something they want info on, but the body cam might not be positioned well enough to see where the user is looking, and even if the wide-angle lens does include that area in its field of view, it may need some hardware/software that will allow it to know where the user is looking, and focus only on that part of the image it's seeing.

So maybe it'll be an improvement on Star Trek's primitive lapel-worn comm badge, but with the privacy issues of a body-worn camera.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

Option for “zero personality LLM with extremely short answers and no unprompted follow-ups, fake speaking breaths, nor personification”. Decidedly robotic and to the point. Stop the pretending your LLM is sorry when it’s computer software. Drop the bs. And increase the likelihood for “don’t know” rather than wasting ten minutes of talking in circles to a pretend human inside your phone who doesn’t know the answer but won’t admit it.

This times infinity

 

[justjimmy9999]

Curious if the HomePod with a screen will actually be a robot with physical movement similar to the Pixar lamp. Could it have the Finder face on it which interacts, displays emotions and may be a true AI assistant.

 

[Chopper9]

A square screen would be absolutely retarded.

 

[Imperial926]

None of this sounds remotely exciting to me. This is catch-up, not innovation.

It feels like Apple producing what they want instead of what the customer actually needs. It's also hard to stomach that Apple (worth God knows how many trillion) couldn't design a unique, Apple-centric Siri. We're meant to just forget that. How long also before advertising creeps in as is starting to happen with ChatGPT + taking content from dubious sources like Grok.
I like the potential of AI but I don't trust any of the companies at the forefront of development to deploy it wisely. ChatGPT has enjoyed a purity of presentation during its infancy and I used it. Now the adverts will start to appear and pretty soon I suspect it will go the way of most everything else.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Curious if the HomePod with a screen will actually be a robot with physical movement similar to the Pixar lamp. Could it have the Finder face on it which interacts, displays emotions and may be a true AI assistant.View attachment 2598807View attachment 2598808

All of the details you just mentioned are literally the rumor that already existed and have been reported. You probably read them and buried the memory.

Btw it can’t display emotions when it does have any. In can only display pretend emotions. This is precisely what I personally do not want from a software assistant. I want an unemotional robot with short answers and zero “personality”. I don’t care for a pretend friend. I want answers to questions and nothing more. No fake breaths, faux emotions or unprompted quirky follow up questions.

Your image did remind me of what I have been asking for though, which is a modern interpretation of the lamp iMac.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

A square screen would be absolutely retarded.

We’ll have to see it first. It’s not a Mac and won’t have a windowed environment nor installable apps. Square keeps the device size down on your counter and keeps the price down (otherwise just put your laptop or iPad up on the counter) or hall wall. We will have the see the product in its finished form with its custom software experience. Think of it more like a HomePod Plus. It’ll really be mostly a question answerer and home automation module with the addition of being able to answer incoming calls/FaceTime calls should they arise when you’re hovering about the kitchen. Ring viewer, thermostat adjuster, things like that.