Just ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, Bloomberg has published leaked renders of what Apple’s planned AI upgrade could look like on the iPhone — including a new Siri app to rival ChatGPT and other AI chatbots — as well as how Siri’s new capabilities will be woven throughout the operating system.
The photos were compiled based on what Bloomberg saw and learned from sources.
Although you’ll still be able to press a button in iOS 27 to trigger Siri, animations and reactions will now originate from the iPhone’s Dynamic Island — the black pill-shaped area at the top of the screen that today houses live activities, real-time updates, and interactive displays of apps that appear directly on the phone’s home screen. This mode will work best for quick voice queries or searches, similar to how people currently use Siri.
However, a new mode will put Siri-powered search within easy reach, using people’s muscle memory to swipe down on their screens to access Spotlight Search — a built-in way to find information from both your phone and the Web in one place. The swipe-down gesture will still open searches, but now those searches will be based on AI-powered Siri, which includes a reworked AI model that uses Google’s Gemini AI technology for additional intelligence.
From here, iPhone users can search, launch an app, initiate a message, ask about the weather, add a calendar appointment, search their notes, and trigger app shortcuts, Bloomberg reports, with the results displayed in formatted text in a card-style interface that also emerges from the dynamic island.
Apple’s approach towards AI is similar to its previous multi-billion dollar partnership with Google that made Google the default search engine on the iPhone. Just as building a search engine from scratch was never in Apple’s playbook, AI presents a similar calculus — it’s just too expensive and complicated to do it alone, at least right now. So Apple is working with outside partners for the AI technology users want today, as well as building its own models, including local AI, which runs on local devices rather than in the cloud — an approach that allows Apple to lean into the privacy brand without requiring any AI.
Bloomberg also notes that there will be a new standalone Siri app that – as previously reported – is designed to compete directly with chatbots like ChatGPT, Cloud, Gemini, and others. The app will bring up your past chat history and allow you to upload documents and photos in addition to text.
Scale, as always, is Apple’s advantage. While ChatGPT now has 900 million weekly active users, Apple’s install base (not just iPhones, but all devices) is 2.5 billion — meaning the company has an unmatched runway to introduce AI to people who haven’t yet adopted standalone AI tools.
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