Apple is finally giving Siri a real AI upgrade powered by Google Gemini

After months with little concrete information, Apple’s long-promised Siri overhaul now appears to be nearing release.

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple plans to ship a revamped, AI-powered version of Siri as part of iOS 26.4, with a public rollout expected by the end of March. The assistant is reportedly built on Google’s Gemini model, a notable departure from Apple’s previous approach to Siri’s underlying intelligence.

The update is expected to deliver features Apple previewed at WWDC 2024, before pushing them back internally. Those delays left questions about whether the functionality would arrive in its original form—or at all.

The new version of Siri is expected to be significantly more context-aware. Apple’s assistant should be able to pull relevant information from messages, emails, and notes, understand what’s currently on the screen, and carry out actions across multiple apps without forcing users to manually switch between them.

In practical use, this would move Siri beyond isolated voice commands and toward task-based assistance. Instead of answering single questions, the assistant is designed to understand what a user is doing and help complete multi-step actions within the system.

If Apple sticks to the reported schedule, iOS 26.4 could mark a meaningful turning point for Siri, narrowing the functional gap with AI assistants that already offer deeper context awareness and cross-app actions on other platforms.

Source: bloomberg.com