Apple’s AI push grows Siri might soon live as its own app

New Delhi: Apple has recently reported that they are gearing up for a major upgrade to its Apple Intelligence platform, with the redesigned Siri expected to take centre stage at WWDC 2026. Apple is also experimenting with a dedicated Siri, a more capable systemwide AI assistant with deeper integration across applications and services on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

This upcoming updated Siri is expected to go beyond basic voice commands and handle more complex tasks by using the personal data from emails, messages, and notes.

This could also enable the assistant to take actions across the applications and offer more contextual responses. Apple might also improve how Siri delivers information, with better summaries from Apple News and more detailed answers pulled from the web, by including structured responses like bullet points and images.

The move also been appears to be part of Apple’s effort to better compete with the AI-driven tools such as Google Gemini and Perplexity, which have already offered conversational and search-based capabilities. By integrating these features directly into its ecosystem, Apple is focusing on making Siri more useful in everyday scenarios.

Apple has also reported experimenting with a dedicated Siri application that also comes with a more chat-like interface. This application could enable users to view past interactions, start new conversations, and switch between voice and text inputs more easily. It also supports uploading documents and photos for analysis, by making Siri more interactive and closer to modern AI assistants.

These latest features face some repeated delays due to performance and reliability challenges. As we all know, Apple has partnered with Google to integrate its customized variant of the Gemini AI into its Apple ecosystem, which is also expected to power the next phase of Siri’s intelligence features as well.

Siri will also continue to be accessible via voice commands and the iPhone’s power button, standalone application signals to shift in how Apple wants users to interact with its ecosystem and its assistant. These changes are expected to be announced at its upcoming WWDC 2026, where Apple is likely to outline its broader AI strategy.