Apple to unveil Gemini-powered Siri in February, full AI chatbot coming in June: Story in 5 points

Apple is gearing up to finally give Siri a serious AI upgrade, with a Gemini-powered version expected to debut as early as February. A more advanced, chatbot-style Siri is then tipped to arrive at WWDC 2026.

Ever since Apple introduced Apple Intelligence, there has been constant chatter about when Siri would actually get smarter. The promises were big, but the voice assistant never managed to hold on to those hyped features for long. Now, though, the wait seems to be coming to an end. After months of speculation, delays and quiet internal reshuffling, Apple is expected to unveil a revamped Siri powered by Google’s Gemini AI as early as February.

This smarter Siri rollout will also mark the first official release tied to Apple’s newly announced partnership with Google, following company’s broader AI strategy. While this update will bring meaningful improvements, a more advanced, chatbot-style Siri is reportedly to follow later this year, likely at WWDC in June, alongside iOS 27.

Let’s take a quick look at the story in five key points.

Apple introduced its standalone voice assistant, Siri, for the iPhone back in 2010, and later expanded it across its entire device ecosystem. For a long time, Siri helped popularise voice assistants, but over the past few years, things started to slip. With the rapid rise of generative AI, Apple’s voice assistant began to feel a step behind rivals like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot.

Apple itself acknowledged this gap at WWDC 2024, promising a “next-generation” Siri that would better understand context and take actions across apps. However, those internal plans reportedly ran into delays and performance issues with Apple’s own AI models, forcing the company to rethink how it delivers AI features at scale. Now, according to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the coming months could finally mark a real step forward in fixing Siri’s long-standing intelligence problem.

As expected, the new and smarter Siri will be powered by Google’s Gemini AI. After reportedly holding talks with OpenAI and Anthropic, Apple ultimately chose Google as its AI partner last year. According to Bloomberg, negotiations with Anthropic fell through due to high costs, while working with OpenAI raised strategic concerns.