Apple chief executive John Ternus has told software chief Craig Federighi to speed up Siri’s transformation into a true AI agent, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, writing in his Power On newsletter on 8 November.
The goal is a Siri that works like an agent: software that follows a goal and keeps working on it without the user starting each step. Apple leaders privately admit the company is not keeping pace with rivals whose agents already complete tasks on their own, Gurman reports. OpenAI’s agent, Dots, can book travel and manage schedules, while Meta is rolling out its Muse agent across its apps. Apple has not confirmed the account, which rests on unnamed sources.
Siri AI launched in beta with iOS 27 on 14 September, and Apple added five more languages with iOS 27.2 in October. It can answer questions and hand harder ones to ChatGPT, but it cannot yet carry a task through to completion on its own. That gap is what Ternus reportedly wants closed, with a fully agentic Siri targeted as early as 2027. Siri AI is also reported to be built on models from Google’s Gemini family.
Two upgrades are already on the calendar. The first, finer control over Apple’s own apps, is due in iOS 27.3 in December. The second, third-party app integration, is expected in spring 2027 and would let Siri place orders or book reservations inside other apps. Some groundwork is already public: Apple opened Siri AI to developers through a Developer Preview on 3 November, and removed the Siri AI waitlist entirely on 5 November.
There is also uncertainty at the top of the Siri team. Mike Rockwell, who took over Siri in March 2025, is said to be seriously considering leaving his role next year. For iPhone owners, the first real answer on whether the pace holds will come in December, when iOS 27.3 lands.
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