At WWDC 2026 next month, Apple is expected to finally deliver on its AI Siri promises and more. The company has long been working on a new standalone Siri app to enhance user interaction with Siri and Apple Intelligence, and it will debut in beta next month.
according to A new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurmanthe new Siri app will come with a privacy feature similar to iMessage: automatic conversation deletion. He also expects Siri to launch with a beta tag when it becomes available to the public in the fall, as has been the case with some previous Apple releases.
New Siri app that automatically deletes conversations
Although initially hesitant to launch the Siri chatbot, it looks like Apple will do just that with iOS 27. Chat history will be a new standalone Siri app with the ability to start new conversations or voice conversations and upload files to Siri. You will also have a new one universal gesture to enter a new Siri conversation.
Of course, this all depends on Siri being good – which I hope will be the case with Apple and Google’s deal to use the Gemini models to power Siri.
One of the main points in Apple’s new Siri update is privacy. The company will run Gemini-based Siri on its own private cloud computing servers, rather than transmitting all your data directly to Google. Some details are still unclear, but even so, Google shouldn’t be using your Siri conversations for model training.
Another privacy win with the new Siri app will be the automatic deletion of chat history. In the Messages app, you can set your chat history to automatically delete after 30 days or a year, or to leave it indefinitely. The same options will be available in the new Siri app Bloomberg.
Finally, the new Siri app will have two interface options: you can either open to a new chat view (like ChatGPT) or you can open to a Messages-style chat list.
Siri will come with beta tag
New features launched with the beta tag are nothing new for Apple. Even when Apple Intelligence debuted in iOS 18, it shipped with a beta tag, and that’s expected to continue with the new Siri in iOS 27. report:
Inside Apple, iOS 27 betas use this label for the new Siri and include a link to exit Siri beta. Given that we’re only a month away from WWDC, it’s highly likely that this approach will be used in developer betas and even when iOS 27 launches this fall. All this means that even after a two-year delay (an updated Siri was supposed to arrive in 2024), the company can still call the new features unfinished.
It also sounds like the company will allow users to opt out of the new Siri beta. It is unclear whether this disclaimer will be separate from or a level above the already existing Apple Intelligence disclaimer. As a sidebar, I wish Apple would drop a more granular feature for Apple Intelligence instead of an all-encompassing switch.
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