Apple pushes to turn Siri into an AI agent as early as 2027, Gurman reports

Apple chief executive John Ternus has pressed software chief Craig Federighi to speed up Siri's roadmap and turn the assistant into an AI agent that tracks goals and keeps working on them without being prompted at each step, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported, in a bid to catch up with rival products from OpenAI and Meta. Gurman believes an agentic Siri could arrive as early as next year.

Ternus unhappy with the pace, wants more than routine fixes

In his Power On newsletter published on November 8, Gurman said Ternus told Federighi in a recent closed-door meeting that Apple needed to move faster and go well beyond routine Siri improvements. Today's Siri AI is largely request-based: a user gives one command, it executes it, then waits for the next. The agentic Siri Ternus wants would work more like OpenAI's Dots, Meta's Muse and Grok, taking on an ongoing job and continuing it between conversations and tasks without the user starting every step. Apple has not confirmed the report or any timeline.

Two-phase rollout: first-party apps first, then third-party

According to Gurman, the upgrade will come in two phases: iOS 27.3, expected in December, will give Siri fine-grained control of Apple's own apps, such as cropping and rotating images in Photos or organising tab groups in Safari; the bigger step comes in spring 2027, when Siri is expected to control third-party apps, such as placing a food order through Grubhub or booking a restaurant table through OpenTable. On November 3, Apple opened a developer preview letting apps bring their actions into Siri through App Intents.

Context: personalised Siri AI shipped with iOS 27 in September

Personalised Siri AI shipped in beta with iOS 27 on September 14. Federighi's team delivered a working version on a very short timeline, but Apple leadership recognises that current capabilities still lag dedicated competitors. On the November 2 earnings call, Ternus praised Siri AI, saying it was built on a modern orchestrator-driven architecture with room to expand. AppleInsider cautioned, however, that Gurman's account remains reporting and forecasting rather than an Apple promise, and the timing should be treated with care.