Apple Plans to Turn Siri Into an AI Agent as Early as 2027, Bloomberg Reports

Apple is pushing to turn Siri into an AI agent that can pursue goals on its own, with chief executive John Ternus pressing software chief Craig Federighi to speed up the assistant's roadmap, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. The report says a more agentic Siri could arrive as early as next year, though Apple has announced nothing and the timing remains a forecast rather than a promise. (Source: Bloomberg)

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, writing in his Power On newsletter, Ternus raised the issue with Federighi in a closed-door meeting and has urged the software division to move faster on artificial intelligence. Gurman wrote that he believes Apple could make Siri work "more like an agent" as early as 2027. (Source: Bloomberg)

An agentic Siri would mark a shift from the assistant's current model of answering one request at a time. Instead, it would keep track of a user's goals and keep working on them without the user starting every step, in the manner of OpenAI's Dots, Meta's Muse and xAI's Grok. Apple has not confirmed the report or announced any timeline for such a feature. (Source: Firstpost)

The nearer-term steps are already in motion. The first developer beta of iOS 27.3, released on 3 November, gives Siri finer control over Apple's own apps. Users can ask the assistant to make detailed changes inside apps, such as cropping or rotating a photo in the Photos app or organising open tabs in Safari, rather than simply opening the app. Gurman expects that capability to reach the public with iOS 27.3 in December. (Source: AppleInsider)

On the same day the beta arrived, Apple opened a developer preview letting apps bring their content and actions into Siri through App Intents. Apple also added "skills", which it describes as a way to teach Siri how to combine several actions into a single experience for complex requests. The company says the preview comes before the features ship to customers "in a few months", with App Store submission opening in the spring. (Source: MacObserver)

The larger step, control of third-party apps, is expected to wait until spring 2027, possibly in iOS 27.5 or iOS 27.6 ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. That would let Siri place a food order through Grubhub or book a restaurant reservation through OpenTable, for example. Gurman was explicit about the limit of the current system: it acts only on request and does not work in the background on a user's behalf. (Source: The Verge)

The push matters because Apple has spent the past two years playing catch-up in artificial intelligence. The rebuilt Siri was announced at WWDC 2024, with app intents among its three headline features, but the most capable version has been slow to arrive while rivals have shipped agents that plan and execute multi-step tasks. Ternus has described agentic AI capabilities as promising on a recent earnings call, suggesting the technology is part of Apple's broader plans. (Source: Firstpost)

There are limits to what is on offer today. Siri AI shipped in beta with iOS 27 on 14 September, and it remains unavailable in the European Union on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, and to users under 13. Apple's own fine print says server-side features, including Siri AI, are "subject to daily usage limits", and that "expanded access to such features will be available for a fee in the future". (Source: MacObserver)

What happens next will be measured against the December release of iOS 27.3 and the spring preview of third-party app control. If Gurman's reporting proves right, the agentic Siri would follow on that foundation, turning a capable app controller into an assistant that takes initiative on its own. For now, though, the 2027 date is a reporter's expectation, not a company commitment, and Apple has said nothing in public about it. (Source: AppleInsider)

This article was researched and drafted with AI assistance and verified against multiple independent sources.