Apple is expected to use next month’s WWDC 2026 event to show off a much bigger version of Apple Siri, along with several features tied to its broader AI push. IT Home says Apple has been building a separate Siri app for quite a while, with the goal of improving how users interact with Siri and the wider Apple Intelligence system. That app is reportedly on track to debut in beta next month.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now says one of the new privacy-focused additions will be an auto-delete chat history option, similar to what users already get in iMessage. He also says the upgraded Siri experience may still carry a beta label even when it rolls out more broadly this fall, which would be consistent with how Apple has handled some earlier feature launches.
The new Siri app is expected to arrive with iOS 27. According to the report, it will support saved conversations, let users start either text chats or voice chats, allow file uploads, and add a new global shortcut gesture that can instantly bring up Siri’s redesigned chat interface.
Of course, those interface upgrades only matter if the assistant itself becomes more capable. The report says Apple’s cooperation with Google, including the use of the Gemini model to power parts of Siri, could be one of the keys to making that happen.
Privacy is still one of the central talking points. IT Home notes that the Gemini-powered Siri experience is expected to run on Apple’s own private cloud compute infrastructure rather than simply handing all user data directly to Google. Some implementation details are still unknown, but the report says Google will not use Siri conversation data to train its own models.
The new auto-delete chat history feature is described as one of the biggest privacy additions in the update. Users may be able to set conversations to clear automatically after 30 days or one year, or choose to keep them permanently. Gurman says the new Siri app will include all of those options.
The interface itself may also split into two modes. One is said to look more like a ChatGPT-style conversation screen, while the other resembles a message-thread list similar to a text messaging app.
Apple has used beta labels for major features before, and that may happen again here. Gurman says internal iOS 27 builds already mark the new Siri experience as beta and even include a switch that lets users opt out of the Siri beta altogether. With WWDC only about a month away, that setting could show up in developer builds first and possibly remain in place when iOS 27 ships publicly in the fall.
That would mean Apple could still present the upgraded Apple Siri as unfinished, even after a long delay from its earlier expected 2024 timeline. The company is also reportedly giving users a way to turn off the new Siri beta manually, though it is not yet clear whether that control will sit inside the existing Apple Intelligence master switch or appear as a separate higher-level setting.
