Eleven days before WWDC 2026, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman published the first detailed look at Apple's revamped Siri — complete with rendered illustrations based on internal sources — showing a dedicated chatbot app, Dynamic Island integration, and a new system-wide "Search or Ask" interface.
The leaks reveal a standalone Siri app featuring conversation history, a "Search or Ask" panel triggered by swiping down from anywhere in iOS, and rich result cards that pop out of the Dynamic Island. Activating Siri expands the island with a glowing animation.
A second entry point — swiping down from the top center of the screen — opens a full text-and-voice search panel that effectively replaces Spotlight. Swipe further and users drop into the Siri app itself, with a scrollable history of previous conversations.
The dedicated Siri app supports document and photo uploads, persistent voice mode, and a drop-down menu letting users route queries to ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Claude directly from the interface. Apple is also testing ways to open iOS 27 to third-party AI agents installed through the App Store. The overhaul represents the biggest rethink of Siri since it launched in 2011.
The Road to WWDC
Apple first showed a "personalized Siri" at WWDC 2024 — one that would understand a user's screen, messages, and calendar. The company then spent 18 months explaining why it couldn't ship it. Apple officially delayed the upgrade in March 2025, citing quality problems, and a class action lawsuit followed. A federal court approved a $250 million settlement earlier this month over claims Apple marketed AI features that "did not exist at the time." Eligible iPhone 15 and 16 buyers can claim up to $95 per device.
The rebuilt Siri's core functions won't run on Apple's own AI models. The company announced a deal with Google in late 2025 to license Gemini as the assistant's foundation, reportedly paying around $1 billion a year.
OpenAI, which has had a ChatGPT integration inside iOS since 2024, is now reportedly working on a breach-of-contract claim — arguing the feature was buried so deep that most iPhone owners never found it. Users had to say "ChatGPT" explicitly to trigger it; Siri didn't route queries there automatically. OpenAI had expected subscription revenue from the iPhone's billion-plus users but did not receive it.
The new multi-provider drop-down in iOS 27 appears to be Apple's attempt to fix that dynamic — letting users choose their AI directly, building in discovery from the start, and avoiding the same problem with future partners.
What the Renders Show
Beyond the chatbot app, the Bloomberg illustrations show Siri integrated into the Camera app as a dedicated capture mode, replacing the current Visual Intelligence button. Users can take a photo and send it to a third-party AI — Google for reverse image search, ChatGPT for analysis — without leaving the camera.
iOS 27 may also receive a natural-language Shortcuts redesign, allowing users to describe what they want automated without navigating a workflow builder, along with AI wallpaper generation and a system-wide grammar checker. Gurman notes the final designs could still change before June 8, as Apple regularly tests multiple versions internally before locking anything in for WWDC.
The camera integration carries significance beyond the iPhone. Apple is developing camera-equipped AirPods and smart glasses — both designed to feed visual data directly to Siri. The iOS 27 Camera mode is, in that sense, the first step in a broader strategy: getting users comfortable with visual AI on their phones before it moves to their ears and faces. Camera AirPods could arrive as early as late 2026, while smart glasses are targeting 2027.
The new Siri is expected to ship to consumers as early as September, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro, the iPhone 18 Pro Max, and Apple's first foldable iPhone. The launch will also mark Tim Cook's last major product release, as John Ternus is set to take over as CEO on September 1.
Why it matters
The new multi-provider drop-down — letting users choose between ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude — gives Apple a structural way to manage AI partner relationships, since partners gain visible, user-selectable placement rather than buried integrations that users may never discover.
Siri's core functions in iOS 27 will run on Google Gemini rather than Apple's own AI models, meaning a key part of the iPhone's assistant experience depends on a third-party provider under a reported licensing arrangement.
The Camera app integration in iOS 27 is part of Apple's broader hardware roadmap: the company is developing camera-equipped AirPods expected as early as late 2026 and smart glasses targeting 2027, both designed to feed visual data to Siri.
