iOS 27 Siri App: Everything We Know About Apple’s AI Overhaul

After years of watching ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude steal the spotlight, Apple is reportedly building a full-blown standalone Siri app for iOS 27, one that looks, feels, and works a lot like the AI chatbots it has long struggled to compete with.

The app, internally codenamed “Campos,” is expected to land on your iPhone Home Screen when iOS 27 ships later this year. According to Bloomberg, it will look strikingly familiar, think Apple’s Messages app, but for conversations with Siri. Chat bubbles, a text entry field, past conversation history, pinned chats, the works.

Users will be able to toggle between voice and text, upload photos and documents for analysis, and pick up old conversations right where they left off. When starting fresh, Siri will suggest prompts based on your past usage to help break the ice.

It’s a major departure from the Siri most iPhone users know today, a voice assistant that forgets you the moment you stop talking to it.

Why now?

The timing is hard to miss. ChatGPT now boasts over 900 million weekly active users, and Google has already baked Gemini deep into Android. Third-party AI apps routinely dominate the App Store’s top charts. Apple, the argument goes, simply could not keep pretending the chatbot wave wasn’t happening.

Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi had, as recently as last year, pushed back on the chatbot direction. Bloomberg reported that Federighi told Tom’s Guide he didn’t want to send users “off into some chat experience in order to get things done.” That stance, it seems, has been abandoned.

What the new Siri can actually do

The reported feature list is extensive. Expected capabilities include:

• Conversational back-and-forth: Multi-step, follow-up questions, not just one-shot answers.
• Web search with visual results: Summaries, bullet points, images, and Apple News content.
• File and document analysis: Upload a PDF or photo and ask Siri about it.
• Image and content generation: Drafts, summaries, AI illustrations.
• Deep personal data access: Emails, messages, notes, and calendar events to fulfill requests.
• On-screen awareness: Siri can see what’s on your display and act on it.
• App control: Perform tasks across multiple apps using Apple’s App Intents framework.
• Spotlight replacement: Siri is expected to replace the current system-wide search.
• Chat history: A list or grid view of your past interactions so you can pick up where you left off.
• Pinned conversations: The ability to pin your most frequent or important chats to the top.

One of the more interesting new additions is an “Ask Siri” button that would appear in menus across built-in apps, letting users send content directly into a Siri conversation. There’s also a “Write with Siri” shortcut above the keyboard that surfaces Apple Intelligence‘s writing tools, a feature that, according to Bloomberg, has historically been hard to find in iOS.

Dynamic Island gets in on it

The new Siri is also expected to make its presence felt in the Dynamic Island. Bloomberg reports that Apple is testing a version in which activating Siri triggers a glowing icon and a “Searching” label in the Dynamic Island while a request is being processed. Once results are ready, the interface expands into a larger translucent panel, and pulling it down opens the full chat experience.

That said, Bloomberg cautioned the final design could still change, noting Apple’s interface team typically tests several options before locking anything in.

Third-party chatbot integrations

Apple isn’t locking users into just one option. MacRumors reports that “Apple will allow third-party AI chatbots to integrate with Siri in iOS 27.” An iPhone user with the Claude or Gemini app installed can send questions to Siri that are routed to those chatbots.

According to MacRumors, iPhone users will be able to “choose which services they want to use inside Siri through a new ‘Extensions’ option coming to the Siri and Apple Intelligence section in the Settings app.”

One open question is how much Siri will remember. ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude all retain memory of past conversations. According to MacRumors, Apple is still debating internally how much the Siri chatbot should remember and whether persistent memory conflicts with the company’s privacy commitments.

When can you get it?

Apple is expected to unveil the new Siri at WWDC on June 8, 2026, alongside the first developer betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27.

A public release is anticipated in September 2026, though some features could arrive in later updates. Cross-platform syncing via iCloud is also planned, meaning your Siri conversations would follow you between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Also read: Our Apple Intelligence cheat sheet breaks down the features, supported devices, and how Apple’s AI stack compares with rivals.