ZDNET's key takeaways Apple could transform Siri into an AI-powered bot that's baked into its operating systems.Unlike ChatGPT and Gemini, it won't be an app-based conversational AI.Apple plans to announce it at the yearly WWDC in June.

Apple is reportedly preparing a major overhaul of Siri, transforming it into a full chatbot experience set to debut with iOS 27.

Apple has been spinning its wheels for many months over its approach to artificial intelligence, but a strategy finally appears to be emerging for the company. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported today that Apple's long-awaited Siri overhaul will allegedly involve transforming the voice assistant into an AI chatbot,

Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a generative AI race dominated by OpenAI and Google.

Apple is nearly ready to launch a more conversational Siri, but the company is also working to turn Siri into a full-fledged chatbot as part of iOS 27.

OS 27 will turn Siri into a ChatGPT-like chatbot that you can have back-and-forth conversations with, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple aims to unveil the Siri chatbot at WWDC 2026 in June and release it in September,

Apple is reportedly rebuilding Siri into a full AI chatbot, a shift that could make future interactions feel closer to ChatGPT or Gemini as the company works to modernise its long-criticised assistant.

Apple and Google already admitted to powering Siri using Gemini, but now, Siri will supposedly get a new, full-on chatbot interface.