According to Bloomberg News‘ Mark Gurman, Apple is completely rebuilding Siri in iOS 27, transforming it from a traditional voice assistant into an always-on intelligent agent. The new Siri will tap into personal data and take actions across apps, while gaining a redesigned chatbot interface for natural back-and-forth conversations that matches the look of ChatGPT, Gemini, and similar apps.
Siri will now appear in the Dynamic Island. Activating it with the wake word or by holding the power button will trigger a large, animated Siri graphic at the top center of the screen.
Users can also bring up a new system search by swiping down from the top center anywhere on the screen, which displays a “Search or Ask” bar in the Dynamic Island. Once engaged, users can swipe down a transparent results card to enter a full chatbot conversation mode that resembles a text message thread, complete with inline mini app cards for quick results like weather, calendar events, and notes.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
• When users engage with Siri, they can swipe a transparent results card down to enter into a chatbot conversation mode, which looks similar to a text message thread. This interface has in-line mini app cards to see results for things like the weather, upcoming appointments and notes.
• The “Search or Ask” interface looks similar to Spotlight Search on an iPhone today, but can show more advanced results and additional data from within apps. Users can press the search bar to toggle between using Siri or third-party offerings like ChatGPT or Gemini as their search engine.
• The “Search or Ask” bar also has a microphone icon on the right side for a voice mode.
• Another key Siri addition is AI-powered search from the open web, which allows general-knowledge questions to get detailed answers for the first time. That includes supplying bullet points of information from the web and large images.
• Siri will have a standalone app for the first time [since it was purchased by Apple. (Siri was initially released as an app for iPhoneOS in February 2010, two months before it was purchased by Apple)]. The main page of that software includes a grid of tall, round rectangles that summarize prior Siri conversations. Users can jump into those to continue their chats. There’s also a search bar to locate past results and a “+” to begin a new chat.
• Inside the Siri app and chatbot view, the bottom of the app has a “+” button for uploading images and documents. The area to type in a query, meanwhile, is labeled “Ask Siri.” There’s also a microphone here to activate the voice input mode.
MacDailyNews Take: Our little birdies still chirp that “Apple’s new Siri will prove to be very much worth the wait!”
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