Apple announced an AI partnership with Google earlier this month, and the first results of the collaboration will become available through an updated Siri next month, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports.
Apple has had a tough time with Siri over the past few years. The personalized Siri it promised at WWDC 2024, giving the assistant the ability to tap into a user’s personal data or take actions across apps autonomously, has been long overdue. Following delays, the company vowed to release those new features this year.
To live up to that promise, Apple desperately needed Google’s Gemini models, Gurman says. The company’s software leadership had admitted last year that the delays were due to struggles with Siri’s underlying architecture.
All of that is in the past now. We’ll get to see demos of Gemini-powered Siri as early as the second half of February, Gurman says. Apple may not hold a special event for it, but instead show off the new Siri capabilities at a controlled media briefing in New York.
Interestingly, shortly after the AI partnership announcement, Google launched Personal Intelligence for the Gemini app. It gives the chatbot the ability to tap into a user’s Gmail, YouTube, Search, and Photos history and deliver more personalized responses. A slightly more limited version of Personal Intelligence, able to draw only from Gmail and Photos history, rolled out to AI Mode in Search last week.
It would not be surprising if Apple demos a version of Gemini’s Personal Intelligence on Siri in its rumored February announcement.
The timeline, on the other hand, aligns with a previous Bloomberg report that suggested Apple was targeting iOS 26.4 for the launch of Siri’s delayed features. Gurman now says the beta version of the software is expected to come out in late February, while the stable version is expected to arrive in March or April.
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After the February announcement, Apple is expected to unveil an overhauled Siri for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS at WWDC 2026 in June. This refresh will turn Siri into a chatbot, enabling users to have ChatGPT-like back-and-forth conversations with it. Siri will also be able to fetch answers from the web, draft content, generate images, and analyze uploaded files, Gurman reported last week.
If all of these rumors hold, Apple users will finally have something to cheer about Siri after complaining about it for years.
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