Bloomberg Reveals Apple's Redesigned Siri Ahead of WWDC 2026

Apple's Big Bet on a Smarter Siri

Apple is preparing the most significant overhaul of Siri in the assistant's history, according to a series of illustrated renders published by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The leak offers the clearest look yet at how Apple plans to transform its frequently criticised voice assistant into a fully fledged AI chatbot capable of going toe-to-toe with ChatGPT, Claude, and Google's Gemini. The features are expected to be announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on 8 June.

A Dedicated Chatbot App for the First Time

For the first time, iOS 27 will introduce a standalone Siri app built around an iMessage-style chat interface. Users will be able to start new text or voice conversations, upload files and photos, and search, favourite, and browse their past chats in either a grid or list view. It's a structure that closely mirrors the standalone apps offered by rival AI companies.

Privacy sits at the centre of the design. The app will include an auto-deleting conversation history, letting users keep messages for 30 days, one year, or indefinitely. Notably, Apple plans to launch the revamped assistant with a beta label, even once it becomes publicly available in the autumn.

Dynamic Island and a Revamped Search

Beyond the dedicated app, Siri will be woven into the Dynamic Island. Triggering the assistant brings up a "Search or Ask" prompt with a glowing cursor, and responses appear as translucent cards that can be pulled down into a full conversation. The experience effectively replaces the current Spotlight search, though existing Siri Suggestions stick around. Gurman's renders show a dark-themed interface with bright, animated colour accents that echo the artwork from this year's WWDC invitations. Apple is also testing integrations that let users route queries to third-party models, including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude.

Powered by Gemini, Protected by Apple

Perhaps the most striking detail is what's under the bonnet. The overhaul is powered by a custom model built on Google's Gemini technology, the result of a multi-year partnership announced by both companies in January 2026. Crucially, Apple runs that Gemini-based model on its own Private Cloud Compute servers rather than on Google's infrastructure, meaning Google has no access to user data processed by the system.

Apple's architecture splits requests across three tiers: simple tasks handled entirely on-device, context-heavy queries processed on Apple's encrypted cloud servers, and complex multi-step requests sent to the Gemini model running within Apple's private infrastructure. The company is framing the approach as "fundamentally different" from rivals, with privacy protections baked into the system rather than offered as an optional extra.