Just ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, Bloomberg has published leaked renderings of what Apple’s planned AI upgrade could look like on the iPhone — including an all-new Siri app meant to compete with ChatGPT and other AI chatbots — as well as how Siri’s new capabilities will be woven throughout the operating system.
The images were produced by Bloomberg based on what it saw and learned from sources.
While you’ll still be able to press a button in iOS 27 to trigger Siri, the animation and response will now come from the iPhone’s Dynamic Island—that’s the black pill-shaped area at the top of the screen that today houses Live Activities, the real-time updates, and interactive views from apps that appear directly on the phone’s Home screen. This mode works best for quick voice queries or searches, similar to how people currently use Siri.
However, a new mode will put Siri-powered search within reach, harnessing people’s muscle memory to swipe down on their screen to access Spotlight Search – a built-in way to find information from both your phone and the web in one place. The swipe-down gesture will still open search, but now those searches will draw on the AI-powered Siri, which includes a rebuilt AI model that uses Google’s Gemini AI technology under the hood for added intelligence.
From here, iPhone users can search, launch apps, launch messages, ask about the weather, add calendar appointments, search their notes and trigger app shortcuts, Bloomberg reports, with results displayed in formatted text in a map-like interface that also comes from Dynamic Island.
Apple’s approach to artificial intelligence is strikingly similar to its previous multibillion-dollar partnership with Google that made Google the default search engine on the iPhone. Just as building a search engine from scratch was never in Apple’s playbook, AI presents a similar calculation—it’s too expensive and complex to go it alone, at least right now. So Apple is working with outside partners for AI technology that users want today, while simultaneously building its own models, including local AI that runs on local devices instead of the cloud — an approach that allows Apple to lean into its privacy brand without having to catch up.
Bloomberg also notes that there will be a new standalone Siri app — as previously reported — designed to compete directly with chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and others. The app displays your past chat history and allows you to upload documents and images in addition to text.
Scale is, as always, Apple’s advantage. While ChatGPT now has 900 million weekly active users, Apple’s install base (all devices, not just the iPhone) is 2.5 billion — meaning the company has an unrivaled trajectory to introduce AI to people who haven’t yet adopted standalone AI tools.
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