Bloomberg says Apple is accelerating Siri's agentic evolution, iOS 27.3 will gain first-party app control capabilities
Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman says Apple is accelerating its Siri roadmap with the goal of building an AI agent that can compete with OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse. Two recent improvements include: giving Siri fine-grained control over Apple's first-party apps, such as rotating and cropping images in Photos and organizing Safari tabs, expected to launch with iOS 27.3; and the ability to connect to third-party apps, expected to arrive next spring, allowing users to place orders via Grubhub or book reservations through OpenTable. Apple also plans to have Siri take on persistent tasks rather than just single operations.
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Bloomberg's report outlines the phased roadmap for enhancing Siri's agentic capabilities, giving readers a sense of the pace at which Apple is catching up with competitors.
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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI’s Dots or Meta’s Muse. While Federighi has delivered a functional version of Siri AI on an incredibly short timeline, the company has no illusions that it’s keeping pace with its rivals.
Two significant improvements are expected to be made to Siri in the coming months. One will give the assistant fine-grained control over Apple’s first-party apps, allowing it to do things like rotate and crop images in Photos and organize Safari tabs. Those capabilities are expected to land with iOS 27.3. The bigger change, integration with third-party apps, is likely to land later, in the Spring, according to Gurman. That would let Siri place an order through Grubhub or book a dinner reservation through OpenTable, for example.
But that’s just the start. Apple is expected to push Siri to become more agentic and enable features that will allow it to perform ongoing tasks, not just one-offs. Gurman says: