A sneak peek at the new Siri app reveals Apple’s plans to take on ChatGPT and more

Before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, Bloomberg has posted leaked renders of what Apple’s planned AI upgrade could look like on the iPhone — including a brand new Siri app that aims to rival ChatGPT and other AI-powered 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 they have seen and learned from sources.

While you can still press a button in iOS 27 to launch Siri, the animation and response will now appear from the iPhone screen Dynamic island This is the black, pill-shaped area at the top of the screen that today houses live activities, real-time updates, and interactive screens from apps that appear directly on the phone’s home screen. This mode will work best for voice queries or quick searches, just like how people currently use Siri.

However, there’s a new mode that will bring Siri-powered search within easy reach, tapping into people’s muscle memory to swipe down on their screen to access Spotlight Search — a combined way to find information from your phone and the web in one place. The swipe-down gesture will still open search, but now those searches will be based on AI-powered Siri, which includes a rebuilt AI model that It uses Google’s Gemini AI technology under the hood For more intelligence.

From here, iPhone users can search, launch apps, initiate messages, ask about the weather, add calendar appointments, search their notes, and launch app shortcuts, Bloomberg reports, with results displayed in rich text in a card-style interface that also appears from Dynamic Island.

Apple’s approach to AI is strikingly similar to the previous one Several billion dollars The partnership with Google has made Google the default search engine on iPhone. Just as building a search engine from scratch was never in Apple’s playbook, AI offers a similar calculation — it’s too expensive and complex to do alone, at least for now. So Apple is working with outside partners for the AI ​​technology users want today, while at the same time building its own models. Including local artificial intelligencewhich runs on local devices rather than the cloud — an approach that allows Apple to build on its brand of privacy without having to play catch-up.

Bloomberg also reports 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 will display your previous chat history and allow you to upload documents and photos, as well as text.

Size, as always, is Apple’s advantage. While ChatGPT now has 900 million For weekly active users, Apple’s install base (all devices, not just iPhone) is 2.5 billion – which means the company has an unparalleled path to bringing AI to people who have not yet adopted standalone AI tools.