Siri’s problem is no longer that it can’t understand human speech. On iOS 27, it can remember your preferences and do some personalized things, but as long as the task exceeds one step, it still requires you to give instructions one by one.
According to Gurman’s latest newsletter, Apple wants Siri to become an intelligent agent as early as next year: it can focus on the target by itself and determine what to do next, without the user having to watch every step. The benchmarks are products such as ChatGPT’s Dots, Meta’s Muse and Grok, which can already run tasks continuously in the background.
The other line is the timeline. The cross-application in-depth control originally planned to be launched with iOS 27.3, especially the support of third-party apps, has now been pushed to the spring of 2027, and may not be launched in preview form until 27.5 or 27.6.
In order to keep up with progress, Apple has even changed its development rhythm. The first development cycle of iOS 28 changed from four weeks of coding and four weeks of integration to six weeks of coding exploration and two weeks of convergence. The new CEO Ternus is said to have directly urged Federighi to be more radical in AI.
The trouble lies with the people. Mike Rockwell, who led Vision Pro and the new version of Siri, is said to be seriously considering leaving, possibly stepping down as VP of Siri Engineering next year, or even leaving Apple. The candidates to take over are probably Amar Subramanian, who came from Google last year, and Federighi's deputy Sebastian Marino.
While speeding up, the leader may have to leave. This combination is not reassuring.