Apple just weeks from unveiling Google-powered Siri makeover, report claims

Earlier this month, Apple and Google released a joint statement announcing a “multi-year collaboration” to base Siri and other Apple AI products on Google Gemini technology. But more details about the partnership, including the likely timeline, have been revealed by a new report.

In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman says that Apple “appears to be less than a month away from revealing the results of this partnership.” It’s unclear whether this announcement will take the form of a full press event, recognizing that the company could choose to brief journalists individually, but either way the information should be available within a few weeks.

According to Gurman, Siri’s announcement will mostly consist of what we’ve heard before. Apple will tell us that, finally fulfilling a promise made at WWDC 2024 and then repeatedly delayed, Siri will soon be able to use contextual data (other information on the screen and whatever it knows about the user) to more accurately execute voice commands. But that’s not all. As we previously reported, the Gemini partnership is also expected to bring new features, including the ability to answer questions conversationally and tell stories, to Apple’s AI products.

There will be a gap between the announcement and the Siri update actually rolling out to the public, but it shouldn’t be anything like the delays we’ve seen so far. Gurman expects the new features to make it into iOS 26.4, which is currently scheduled for beta testing in February and launch in March or early April.

Beyond April, we can expect more significant changes later in the year. Gurman insists that a “completely reimagined” version of Siri, internally named Campos, will be announced at WWDC 2026 and will be part of the iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 updates that will be released to the public in the fall.

“The new system,” Gurman writes, “is a new architecture and interface designed from the ground up for the chatbot era.” It will be more conversational than current Siri or even Siri in iOS 26.4, and capable of “sustained dialogues.” This will also be based on Gemini technology.

But there is a sting in the tail. While Apple was quick to point out that the upcoming Gemini-enhanced version of Siri will run on-device or on Apple’s own servers, implying that this approach was chosen for privacy reasons, that may not be the case for Campos. According to Gurman’s sources, Apple and Google are currently discussing a plan to run it on Google’s cloud infrastructure to improve responsiveness. It’s unclear how Apple might square this with its “industry-leading privacy standards,” but it will have plenty of opportunities to make that argument in its various press engagements this year.