Apple’s long-awaited update to Siri is finally taking a step forward at WWDC 2026. After first being announced in 2024, Apple has unveiled its vision for an AI-supercharged Siri, called Siri AI, which will become much more “agentic” thanks in part to an infusion from Google’s Gemini.

Siri now takes actions across apps, both native and third-party, which includes handling stuff like email composition. This means you can give Siri topics and information and have the next-gen voice assistant do the rest for you.

To assist in its agentic capabilities, Siri is now designed to be much more personalized, using information from your Apple account and other personal data on your device, such as calendar events, emails, and notes. The upgraded Siri also has “visual intelligence,” meaning it can view and understand what’s on your screen to better take actions for you. Both of those things, for the record, were advertised when the next-gen Siri was initially announced in 2024 but haven’t yet been available.

Siri is also finding its way into more places, including a dedicated Siri app and Spotlight in macOS, where you can now ask Siri questions and ask it to help you complete tasks and compare things. In visionOS, you can now even pin a Siri orb in digital space so you can access it more easily.

New voices abound as well, and you can now adjust the cadence and pacing of Siri if you don’t like the defaults.

Apple’s endeavors in AI haven’t exactly gone according to plan since the launch of Apple Intelligence, and Siri is arguably the most obvious example. Since being announced in 2024, next-gen Siri had yet to actually find its way onto Apple devices, as the company worked to get the voice assistant up to par.

Whether Siri actually lands with users as the pivotal upgrade that was promised remains to be seen, but it will certainly have some competition, especially from Google, which recently unveiled Gemini Intelligence, the company’s agentic update to Android.

Siri AI is open for developers today, and Apple says it will be available in beta for users later this year.

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