According to the report, Apple knows it is not keeping pace with rivals and wants an agent that can compete with OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse. The first improvement will give Siri fine-grained control of Apple's own apps, such as rotating and cropping images in Photos or organizing Safari tabs. Those capabilities are expected with iOS 27.3.
The bigger change, integration with third-party apps, is expected in the spring, according to Gurman. It would let Siri, for example, order food through Grubhub or book a restaurant table through OpenTable. Last week we reported on plans to open Siri to outside apps.
Beyond that, Apple wants Siri to carry out ongoing tasks rather than one-off actions: track goals, decide the next step and continue without the user initiating each one. Gurman says this could happen as early as next year. Apple has not commented officially, and this is a report, not an announcement.