Next month at WWDC 2026, Apple is expected to finally deliver on its promises of AI Siri and more. The company has long been working on a new standalone Siri app to improve the way users interact with Siri and Apple Intelligence, and it should debut in beta next month.
According to a New report from Bloomberg’s Mark GurmanThe new Siri app will come with a privacy feature similar to iMessage: automatic deletion of chats. He also expects Siri to launch with a beta label even when it becomes publicly available in the fall, similar to some previous Apple releases.
New Siri app with chats that automatically delete
Despite initially having doubts about launching a Siri chatbot, it looks like Apple will do exactly that with iOS 27. There will be a new standalone Siri app with conversation history, the ability to start new chats or voice conversations, and upload files to Siri. You will also have a new universal gesture to enter a new Siri chat.
Of course, this all depends on Siri being good, which should hopefully be the case with Apple and Google agreeing to use Gemini models to power Siri.
One of the key points of Apple’s new Siri renewal is privacy. The company will run Gemini-based Siri on its own private cloud computing servers, rather than simply handing all of its data directly to Google. Some of the details are still unclear, but still, Google shouldn’t use your Siri conversations to train models.
Another privacy win with the new Siri app will be the automatic deletion of conversation history. In the Messages app, you can set your conversation history to automatically delete after 30 days or a year, or leave it indefinitely. The same options will exist in the new Siri app, according to Bloomberg.
Lastly, the new Siri app will have two interface options: you can open the new conversation view (like ChatGPT) or open a Messages-style list of conversations.
Siri will come with a beta label
Releasing new features with a beta label is by no means something new for Apple. Even when Apple Intelligence started debuting in iOS 18, it shipped with a beta label, and that’s expected to continue with the new Siri in iOS 27. the report:
Test versions of iOS 27 within Apple use this tag for the new Siri and include a switch to exit the Siri beta. Since we’re just a month away from WWDC, there’s a good chance this approach will be used in developer betas and even when iOS 27 launches this fall. All of this means that even after a two-year delay (the revamped Siri was supposed to arrive in 2024), the company could still call the new features unfinished.
It also appears that the company will allow users to opt out of the new Siri beta. It’s unclear if this opt-out will be separate from Apple Intelligence’s already existing opt-out, or if it will be a level above that. As a sidebar, I wish Apple had more detailed feature opt-outs for Apple Intelligence instead of one all-encompassing option.
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