Siri 2.0 could finally reach your iPhone next month, with the Gemini-powered assistant due to gain even more abilities at WWDC this summer
Publish Date: 2026-01-26 07:08:00
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The smarter Siri 2.0 we’ve been waiting to try on our iPhones for almost two years may finally appear next month, says Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter at Bloomberg. But even greater changes could be in store for Apple’s summer developer conference.
Gurman was writing about the Apple and Google AI deal months ahead of the official announcement. So when he says “[Apple] has been planning an announcement of the new Siri in the second half of February, when it will give demonstrations of the functionality,” we have little reason to doubt him.
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