Apple readies major Siri overhaul for WWDC 2026, reportedly with Gemini integration

Apple is reportedly preparing a dramatic Siri overhaul to be unveiled at WWDC 2026, transforming the assistant into an agentic chatbot capable of handling complex, multi-step workflows under the Apple Intelligence umbrella. The revamped Siri would gain a dedicated home-screen app with conversation history, support for both voice and text input, and the ability to analyze documents and photos.

The most consequential reported detail is third-party model integration: Siri may lean on Google Gemini for web search and on-screen content analysis, with users potentially able to access other services like ChatGPT and Claude through a new 'Search or Ask' interface. That would extend the Apple-Google search relationship into the AI-assistant era and confirm Apple's reluctance to build frontier models entirely in-house.

Strategically, this is Apple playing catch-up after a period where Apple Intelligence underwhelmed relative to Gemini and ChatGPT. Routing to Gemini for the hardest queries while keeping on-device Apple models for privacy-sensitive tasks would be a pragmatic hybrid — but it also cedes the frontier-reasoning layer to a competitor. The caveat: this is still reporting and speculation ahead of WWDC, and Apple has a track record of announcing AI features that slip well past their demo dates, as the original Apple Intelligence Siri delays showed.