AINewsTechApple is racing to make Siri more agenticFuture versions of Siri will be able to control third-party apps and perform more complex tasks.Future versions of Siri will be able to control third-party apps and perform more complex tasks.by Terrence O’BrienNov 8, 2026, 7:18 PM UTCShareGiftPhoto: David Imel \/ The VergeTerrence O’Brien is the Verge\u2019s weekend editor. He\u2019s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.Bloomberg\u2019s 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\u2019s Dots or Meta\u2019s Muse. While Federighi has delivered a functional version of Siri AI on an incredibly short timeline, the company has no illusions that it\u2019s 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\u2019s first-party apps, allowing it to do things like rotate and crop images in Photos and organize Safari tabs.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Gurman says:Dots, Muse and Grok can keep track of goals, determine what needs to happen next and continue pursuing objectives without the user initiating every individual step. Apple ultimately wants to go in this direction, I\u2019m told, and I believe the company could make Siri more like an agent as early as next year \u2014 not that it has much of a choice, given current consumer and market demands.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Terrence O’BrienAIAppleApple RumorsNewsTechMost PopularGood riddance, Cybertruck!Why a new report on Anthropic automating AI development is alarming researchersThe US let Nvidia sell chips to an empty office in ChinaI\u2019ve reviewed almost every Android foldable this year \u2014 here\u2019s how the iPhone Duo comparesThere\u2019s no slowing down media\u2019s pivot-to-video 2.0Advertiser Content FromThis is the title for the native ad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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