Siri AI answers when you ask. Apple now wants it to keep working after you stop asking. In his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg on Nov. 8, Mark Gurman says he was told Apple could make Siri work “more like an agent” as early as next year.
That would move Siri past the request and response model it still uses in iOS 27.2 and the iOS 27.3 beta. Gurman says the exact form is still open, and Apple has not announced anything. So treat 2027 as the earliest date, not a launch plan.
Gurman says Apple wants Siri to chase goals the way ChatGPT Dots and Meta Muse do
Gurman measures Siri against a new class of always-on assistants. “Dots, Muse and Grok can keep track of goals, determine what needs to happen next and continue pursuing objectives,” he writes. He then adds: “Apple ultimately wants to go in this direction, I’m told, and I believe the company could make Siri more like an agent as early as next year.”
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The difference is simple. Today you tell Siri AI to do one thing, it does it, and then it waits. An agent takes a goal, like planning a trip or tracking down a refund, and works through the steps on its own until the job is done or it needs you.
Gurman ties the push to Apple’s new chief executive. According to his reporting, John Ternus told software chief Craig Federighi in a closed-door meeting in recent weeks that Apple needs to “accelerate” its software road map and “move quickly beyond merely making necessary improvements to Siri.”
What Siri AI can already do on your iPhone with iOS 27.2
Apple’s September Siri AI announcement already describes some multistep work. Apple’s example has Siri find a family recipe mentioned in Messages, pull cooking instructions from an email, and add the ingredients to a Reminders list. Siri AI can also draft an email from scratch, edit and share a set of photos, and act on what is on your screen.
The iOS 27.2 update that shipped on Oct. 26 added French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. It also gave Siri a memory. TechCrunch reports that Apple describes the assistant as one that “can now remember details from past conversations and answer accordingly,” and you can exclude specific apps from those memories. We covered how that works in our look at Siri conversation memory in iOS 27.2.
Memory is a building block for an agent. An assistant that forgets your last request cannot follow a goal over days. But memory alone does not make Siri act without you.
iOS 27.3 skills let developers chain several app actions into one Siri request
The bigger step arrived with the iOS 27.3 betas on Nov. 3. Apple’s developer announcement says a new Developer Preview lets any developer bring their app’s content and actions into Siri AI through App Intents. Apple’s examples include checking a delivery, booking a reservation and placing an order.
Apple also added skills. In Apple’s words, skills “let you teach Siri AI how to combine several actions into a single experience” for complex requests. That is the closest thing Siri has to agent behavior right now, but you still start every run yourself.
Apple is rolling the new actions out across its own apps first:
- Calendar, Files, Finder, Journal and Mail
- Maps, Messages, Music, Notes and Photos
- Preview, Reminders, Safari, Shortcuts and Weather
Apple’s examples include finding a coffee shop you visited last week and archiving files you haven’t opened in over a year. Third-party apps take longer. Apple says the preview comes before “first shipping to customers in a few months,” with App Store submission opening in the spring. Our report on Apple letting developers build custom app skills for Siri AI has more on the developer side.
Daily limits and the EU block shape what an agentic Siri could do for you
An agent that keeps working in the background needs a lot of server time. Apple already rations that. Its own fine print says server-side features, including Siri AI, are “subject to daily usage limits,” and that “expanded access to such features will be available for a fee in the future.”
So if Apple ships a Siri that runs errands for you in 2027, expect the same question you face with ChatGPT and other paid assistants. How much of it is free, and what costs extra? Apple has not said.
Two other limits stay in place for now. Siri AI is unavailable in the EU on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, and it is not available to users under 13. If you live in the EU, an agentic Siri depends first on Apple finding a path forward with regulators.
For everyone else, the practical path is clear. Install iOS 27.3 when it ships, try the new actions in Apple’s own apps, and watch which of your third-party apps add Siri skills in the spring. Those skills are the plumbing an agent would run on.
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