Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Apple has been promising a smarter version of Siri for quite some time. Since the announcement of Apple Intelligence, expectations have steadily grown, yet for many users, the everyday Siri experience has remained largely unchanged. Now, a new report suggests that this long wait may finally be coming to an end.
According to Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman, Apple is preparing to roll out a major Siri upgrade as early as February, powered in part by Google’s Gemini AI. Siri, which debuted in 2010, once felt revolutionary. However, as generative AI rapidly evolved, Apple’s voice assistant struggled to keep pace with competitors such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, all of which excel at contextual understanding and natural conversation.
At WWDC 2024, Apple signaled a turning point by promising a next-generation Siri that could better understand users and work more deeply across apps. Behind the scenes, though, Apple reportedly encountered delays while developing its own large language models. These internal challenges appear to have pushed the company toward a strategic partnership rather than a fully in-house solution.
That shift led Apple to collaborate with Google and adopt Gemini as a core intelligence layer for Siri. While Apple also evaluated partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic, reports suggest that cost and long-term strategy ultimately made Gemini the better fit. Apple will continue to present Siri as part of its own Apple Intelligence ecosystem, but much of the AI reasoning will be powered by Gemini behind the scenes.
The updated Siri is expected to be announced in the second half of February alongside iOS 26.4. Beta testing is likely to begin soon after, with a broader rollout expected by March or early April. Internally, this version reportedly runs on Apple Foundation Models version 10, supported by Gemini through Apple’s Private Cloud Compute infrastructure.
This initial update will not turn Siri into a full conversational chatbot. Instead, it focuses on meaningful, practical improvements. Siri is expected to better understand on-screen content, remember personal context, and carry out actions across multiple apps more smoothly. Everyday tasks such as summarizing messages, pulling information from emails, or handling multi-step requests should feel more natural and far less frustrating.
If these changes deliver as promised, February could mark the beginning of a long-overdue evolution for Siri one that finally aligns Apple’s voice assistant with the modern AI era.
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