Siri may soon stop waiting to be asked
Apple could turn Siri into an AI agent as early as next year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman — a change that would let the iPhone assistant keep working on a task after you stop talking to it, instead of waiting for the next command.
In his Power On newsletter on 8 November, Gurman wrote that Apple “ultimately wants to go in this direction” and that he believes “the company could make Siri more like an agent as early as next year”. The report was picked up by 9to5Mac, MacRumors and AppleInsider within hours.
An agent, in Gurman’s framing, is an assistant that takes a goal — planning a trip, chasing a refund, sorting a week’s schedule — and works through the steps on its own until the job is done or it needs your help. Today’s Siri answers a question and then stops. The Apple Siri AI agent would, in theory, keep going.
The push from the top
The report says the push is coming from the very top of Apple. New chief executive John Ternus recently held a private meeting with software chief Craig Federighi and pressed him to speed up the Apple Siri AI agent roadmap — moving beyond simply fixing what is broken and towards a genuinely proactive assistant.
Ternus struck a similar note on Apple’s earnings call on 2 November, saying Siri is “primarily request-based today” but is built on “a modern orchestrator-driven architecture that gives us real room to expand its capabilities over time”.
Gurman’s blunt assessment is that Apple has little choice in the matter: “not that it has much of a choice, given current consumer and market demands.” For background on the new chief executive, read our earlier report on John Ternus taking over as Apple CEO.
The rivals Apple is chasing
The comparison Gurman draws is with a new class of always-on assistants. OpenAI’s ChatGPT Dots, Meta’s Muse and SpaceX’s Grok can track goals, decide what needs to happen next and keep pursuing objectives without the user starting every step.
These agents run on their own virtual machines and handle tasks in the background, then deliver results when they are ready. Siri, by contrast, still works one request at a time.
Apple does have one advantage, 9to5Mac notes: years of App Intents frameworks that let Siri act inside apps directly, rather than by clumsily steering the screen the way some rivals do. That could make an Apple Siri AI agent cheaper and more reliable to run — if Apple executes well.
What Siri AI can already do
The groundwork is already shipping. Siri AI arrived with iOS 27 in September, and the iOS 27.3 beta, released on 3 November, adds a developer preview that brings apps’ content and actions into Siri through App Intents.
Apple’s examples include checking a delivery, booking a reservation and placing an order. A new “skills” feature lets users teach Siri AI to combine several actions into a single request — find a recipe mentioned in Messages, pull the cooking instructions from an email and add the ingredients to a Reminders list. We covered the beta in detail in our report on the iOS 27.3 beta and its Siri AI upgrades.
Gurman expects the first-party app controls to reach the public iOS 27.3 release in December, with third-party app support following as a preview in spring 2027.
The road to 2027 — and what Apple has not said
Apple is also changing how it builds iOS to move faster. For the first iOS 28 milestone, engineers have been given six weeks to code and explore and only two weeks to integrate features, instead of the usual four weeks each — a change Gurman links to the rise of agentic coding tools. Employees say they like the extra room to experiment before features have to be locked in.
But the honest caveat matters: Apple has announced nothing about an agentic Siri. There is no official date, no device list, no region plan and no price. Gurman’s 2027 is the earliest he thinks it could happen — not a launch promise.
Siri AI itself is still rolling out in stages, and it remains unavailable in the European Union and for users under 13. For iPhone users, the realistic next step is the public iOS 27.3 release in December — and then watching whether the spring preview shows Apple is serious about an assistant that works while you do something else.
Sources: 9to5Mac and MacObserver.
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