The upcoming Siri update will enable voice commands for various app interactions, including social media and shopping. Apple is prioritizing precision in testing and possibly limit Siri’s capabilities in fields like banking to ensure reliability.
That Apple is planning to launch a major AI-powered Siri upgrade next year is not a hidden news, but it might be better than people’s expectations. A major boost and revamping are in the works, when in the spring 2026 season, the new and smarter Siri will have a feature with which users will be able to use their voices to give Siri complex, cross-app commands.
Apple had showcased its new and upgraded Siri at the company’s WWDC 2024 event last year, but the update did not arrive in time for the new iPhone launch in September and since then there have been numerous delays to the project.
A new report by Bloomberg states that Apple is now bringing the revamped Siri to Apple users next spring with an upgraded version of app intents that would make the AI voice assistant the ‘hands-free controller of your iPhone.’
With the ‘App Intents’, users will be able to make use of their voice to direct Siri to not only do the tasks like finding a specific photo, editing it and sending it. Siri will also get the ability to tap into the user’s app and perform actions like commenting on an Instagram post, scroll a shopping app and add something to their cart – all sounding a too good to be true scenario.
- The report notes that Apple’s upgrade would involve giving Siri the ability to use apps just like a user would with precision and inside their own interfaces.
- The testing and perfecting of the new App Intents feature has become a top priority for the company’s global data operations team.
- However, there are concerns around the new feature internally with engineers struggling to ensure that the new feature works with a sufficient number of apps and is accurate enough to handle high stakes scenarios.
The worry is that the new software might fail in categories where precision is non-negotiable such as health or banking apps. Given the high stake’s nature of this rollout, Apple will not push it out universally on day one. Meanwhile, the company is also conducting testing with a set of select third-party apps like Uber, AllTrails, Threads, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp and some games apart from its own apps.
For banking and other sensitive categories, Apple says it is considering what Siri can do or excluding these areas altogether, given the complexities involved and possible breach that may occur. Its accuracy will also be something to watch, as it is with any AI application. With iPhone 17 set to launch in September 2025, the enhanced Siri features will feature as a part of a software upgrade in all likelihood, until any further updates are received.