Apple is testing a standalone app for its overhauled Siri

Apple’s efforts to rebuild its Apple Intelligence AI platform will make its debut at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8th. A new version of Siri that transforms the voice assistant into a “systemwide AI agent with deep integration across applications” will be announced at WWDC 2026, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

The updated version of Siri will be more capable of controlling other apps and features of iOS and macOS and completing user-requested tasks using their personal data gathered from emails, messages, and notes. It will also be better at summarizing daily news from Apple News and will be able to provide “more detailed responses sourced from the web, including summaries, bullet points and images,” according to Gurman, to make it more competitive with other AI-powered search tools including Perplexity and Google Gemini.

Siri will still be accessible using voice commands or using the iPhone’s power button, but Apple is also testing a dedicated Siri app that will be available on its various devices. The app will help finally give Siri conversational capabilities through a chat-like format that looks similar to the interface Apple Messages uses. The app will provide users with a dedicated place to find their previous interactions with Siri, search through past chats, start new chats, switch between voice and text modes, and upload documents and photos to be analyzed.

Apple is testing several potential new designs for Siri including placing the assistant at the top of an iPhone’s screen in the Dynamic Island, prompting users with a “Search or Ask” when activated. Once results are ready, the Siri interface will expand into a larger translucent panel that can be further expanded to continue a conversation or make additional inquiries. The company is also working to expand the capabilities of its Spotlight search system by replacing it with Siri so it has access to more types of data, while built-in apps will gain an “Ask Siri” toggle in menus making it easier for users to “request more information about highlighted text or pull
up related emails.“