Apple is preparing to make its AI assistant Siri more advanced. The company introduced Siri with new AI features during the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June this year. After this, it was released on supported devices with iOS 27 update. It took more than two years for Apple to fulfill its AI-powered Siri promise by introducing this new version.
Currently, Siri can do basic tasks like drafting emails and messages, setting reminders, and creating calendar events. But now the company wants to convert it into an AI assistant, which can complete many tasks on behalf of the user. According to the report, Apple is also changing the way of development of iOS 28 and iPadOS 28.
Siri AI will become Autonomous Agent, will compete with Dots and Muse
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has told in his weekly newsletter ‘Power On’ that Apple is planning to develop Siri as an ‘Autonomous Agent’. This means that Siri will not be limited to just answering questions or acting on instructions, but will be able to complete many tasks on behalf of the user.
According to the report, Apple aims to bring the capabilities of AI agents like OpenAI’s Dots, Meta’s Muse and Grok from Elon Musk’s company SpaceXSI to Siri.
These AI agents are being introduced as digital assistants as well as AI companions. They can work in the background and complete routine or repetitive tasks on behalf of the user when needed. Apart from this, they can keep an eye on the changes happening on different platforms and can inform the user about them. You can also summarize important functional updates from connected apps.
The report claims that these new features of Siri may come by next year. With their help, iPhone, Mac and iPad users will be able to entrust many of their tasks to AI assistants.
Currently, Siri can do limited work in some third-party apps and Apple’s own apps. The company has also recently added ‘Advanced In-App Actions’ in the iOS 27.3 beta update. However, its capabilities are currently limited compared to AI agents like Dots, Muse and Grok.
Changes in the development of iOS 28 and iPadOS 28
Information about changes in Apple’s software development process is also given in the report. The company has divided the work into three phases to prepare the next generation iOS and iPadOS updates. These have been named M1, M2 and M3. Each phase will be of eight weeks.
However, in the M1 phase, Apple has changed the way engineers work. The company has asked them to spend the first six weeks coding, working on new ideas and developing features for iOS 28. After this, in the remaining two weeks everyone will have to come together and take the work forward.
The purpose of this change may be to organize software development in a better way. However, Apple has not yet shared official information about Siri’s new AI features or iOS 28.
