Apple Pushes Siri Toward an Agentic AI Assistant

Two upgrades in the coming months

Two significant improvements are expected soon. The first gives Siri fine-grained control over Apple's own apps, letting it rotate and crop images in Photos or organize tabs in Safari. Those abilities are expected to arrive with iOS 27.3.

The bigger change is integration with third-party apps, which Gurman says is likely to land later, in spring. That would allow Siri to place an order through Grubhub or book a dinner reservation through OpenTable, for example.

Beyond one-off commands

That is only the start. Apple is expected to push Siri toward handling ongoing tasks rather than single requests. Gurman notes that Dots, Muse and Grok can track goals, work out what needs to happen next and keep pursuing objectives without the user starting every step.

Apple ultimately wants to move in that direction, he writes, and he believes the company could make Siri more like an agent as early as next year. In his view, Apple has little choice given current consumer and market demands.

For users, the shift would mean Siri moving from answering commands to completing multi-step jobs across apps. Whether Apple can close the gap with competitors that already work this way will be tested by the iOS 27.3 release and the spring update.