Siri has come a long way in the past year, but a new report suggests Apple is already thinking several steps further ahead.

The company is reportedly looking at a version of its assistant that would not just respond to requests but act on its own, tracking tasks and making decisions without being told to do so each time.

Apple Explores a New Siri AI Upgrade

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported this Sunday that Apple is exploring the possibility of turning Siri AI into something far closer to a fully autonomous agent, one that can monitor situations, track ongoing tasks, and take action when conditions call for it without the user needing to issue a command each time. The exploration is part of an apparent push inside Apple to accelerate its AI ambitions more broadly, with CEO John Ternus reportedly pressing software chief Craig Federighi to move faster on AI development across the company's product lines.

The report comes as Apple has been steadily expanding what Siri can already do in its current form. As of iOS 27 and macOS 27 Golden Gate, Siri can read the contents of the screen, search through messages and emails, and perform multi-step actions across different apps in a single request.

What it still cannot do is decide on its own when to act, monitor a situation across multiple days, or initiate something without a direct user prompt.

That limitation is exactly what the reported exploration is meant to address, with Gurman indicating that more autonomous capabilities for Siri could arrive as early as 2027. Apple has not confirmed any timeline or specific features.

Siri AI Upgrade: Autonomous Agent

The concept of an autonomous AI agent goes meaningfully beyond what Siri currently offers. Right now, Siri waits. It processes a request when one is made, executes it, and then sits idle until the next command arrives.

An autonomous agent, by contrast, operates more like a persistent background process: it can be given a goal rather than a specific instruction, and it figures out the steps to achieve that goal over time, checking in or acting when it determines something requires attention.

Apple already has infrastructure that points in this direction. Its expanded App Intents framework, opened to all developers with iOS 27, gives Siri more sophisticated access to third-party app functionality, allowing it to execute complex multi-step actions across different applications in a single session. Giving Siri the ability to decide independently when and how to invoke those actions is a natural architectural extension of that work, though it brings a significantly harder set of challenges around privacy, security, and user consent.

Ternus acknowledged those concerns in earlier discussions about Siri's future, signaling that Apple is aware of the trust issues that come with an assistant acting without explicit user instructions. How the company intends to structure user control over an autonomous Siri, what privacy architecture it would use, and how it would surface what the assistant has done on a user's behalf are all open questions that Gurman's report does not detail.

Similar to ChatGPT Dots, Meta Muse

The concept Apple is reportedly exploring has visible parallels in products already on the market from its main AI competitors. OpenAI's ChatGPT Dots is an always-on agent that works in the background, monitors connected apps, investigates problems, and prepares tasks for user approval before completing them. Rather than waiting for a prompt, ChatGPT Dots proactively identifies things the user might want handled and surfaces them when they become relevant.

Meta's Muse agent operates similarly in the domains it covers, with demonstrated capabilities such as finding a permission slip buried in an email, filling it out, and following up on other logistics related to it. The common thread between ChatGPT Dots and Muse is their ability to handle multi-step, multi-day tasks that unfold over time rather than completing in a single interaction.

A Siri that works in that mode would represent a significant functional leap over what Apple currently offers, and it would position the assistant more directly against not just OpenAI and Meta but also Google's Gemini Live and other agentic AI products that have been rolling out updates at a faster pace than Siri has historically moved.

Bloomberg's reporting suggests Apple is aware of that competitive gap and is actively looking at how to close it.

Frequently Asked Quetions

What Is Siri AI?

Siri AI is Apple's intelligent assistant, integrated across all Apple platforms including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and HomePod. It was first introduced in 2011 as part of iOS 5, making it one of the earliest commercially deployed AI assistants in the consumer market. With the launch of Apple Intelligence beginning in iOS 18 and expanding significantly through iOS 27, Siri received a major architectural overhaul that gave it a deeper understanding of natural language, the ability to read on-screen content, the ability to take multi-step actions across apps, and integration with third-party applications through Apple's expanded App Intents framework. The updated version of Siri also includes a new visual design and the ability to hold more contextual conversation across a session rather than treating each request as independent.

What Is Meta Muse?

Meta Muse is an AI agent platform developed by Meta that allows users to build and interact with personalized AI-powered mini-app experiences within a dedicated app environment. It is designed to handle multi-step tasks on a user's behalf, such as tracking down documents across different services, filling in information, scheduling, and following up on pending items.

Muse operates with an understanding of a user's ongoing context and can take actions across connected apps without being re-prompted for each step. Meta has been expanding Muse's functionality and opening parts of its capability framework to developers, positioning it as a persistent AI companion that handles logistical tasks in the background rather than a single-session chatbot.

What Is ChatGPT Dots?

ChatGPT Dots is OpenAI's always-on AI agent feature, designed to run persistently in the background rather than operating only when a user opens the ChatGPT app or issues a command. It monitors connected services and apps, identifies tasks or problems that fall within its configured areas of responsibility, and either takes action on its own or surfaces completed work for the user to review before final approval.

Dots can work across more than 4,000 connected apps and services, making it one of the broader cross-platform agentic tools currently available to consumers. The name refers to the visual indicator that appears when the agent is active in the background, distinguishing it from a standard conversation-based ChatGPT session.

When Is AI Automation Coming to Siri?

Based on Bloomberg's reporting from Mark Gurman, Apple is currently in the exploration stage for giving Siri autonomous agent capabilities, and Gurman believes those capabilities could arrive as early as 2027. The timing would align with iOS 28 and the broader software cycle that Apple typically previews at WWDC in the summer of 2027. However, Apple has not confirmed any timeline, feature set, or product announcement tied to what is currently an internal exploration.

The challenge of building autonomous AI features that meet Apple's privacy standards and that users can trust and control is likely a significant factor in how quickly the feature can move from exploration to a shipping product.