Apple aiming to make Siri ‘more like an agent’ as soon as next year: report

Apple finally shipped its long awaited personalized Siri with iOS 27. The company lived up to its promises, and delivered on its hefty goals that it set out back in 2024. That said, Siri still lacks in terms of proactively taking actions for you, a feature that many AI companies are actively working towards. Apple might come around on that next year, per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman . The company is also experimenting with a new engineering pipeline that might make faster development possible. more…

Apple, which finally offers the long-awaited personalized Siri experience to users with the iOS 27 update, has achieved the basic goals it set for 2024. However, while the bar is rapidly rising in the voice assistant market, Siri continues to lag behind its competitors in taking initiative and taking proactive steps on behalf of the user. According to the Power On newsletter published by Bloomberg analyst Mark Gurman, the Cupertino-based technology giant is preparing to turn Siri into a full-fledged digital agent next year.

Autonomous Agent Architecture and New Engineering Process

Apple is testing a new engineering pipeline within the company to speed up development processes for the assistant. In the artificial intelligence sector, actors such as Meta and SpaceXSI stand out with interfaces such as Muse and Grok Bot, which identify targets without user intervention and work in the background through independent virtual machines. While Dots, Muse and similar agent systems predict the next step and complete complex tasks end-to-end; Apple also plans to give Siri a similar autonomous structure. The company aims to have the assistant talk directly to the system core by placing the App Intents infrastructure, which it has been developing for years, at the center of this transformation.

Sectoral Competition and Its Reflections on Users

This developed integration promises users direct time savings in daily operations. Compared to the classic methods of standalone AI tools that rely on controlling the screen like a computer, Apple's built-in system frameworks enable deep triggering of tasks. This approach paves the way for solving complex transactions with much lower cost and transaction load. A Siri that anticipates needs without the need for users to give commands and works directly with operating system capabilities instead of virtual machines can take the assistant experience in the technology world to a whole new level.