New details on Apple’s total revamp of Siri revealed – including how it hopes iPhone assistant will beat competitors
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Publish Date: 2026-05-18 12:04:00
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Apple is planning a total overhaul of Siri – with a focus on privacy, according to a new report.
For two years, Apple has been promising to bring entirely new capabilities to its virtual assistant, which will require a revamp of the system. Those new features will include the ability to understand a users’ personal context – so that they can ask when someone’s flight lands, and have the system know who that person is and find out more information about their travel, for instance.
But the overhaul and Apple’s artificial intelligence efforts more generally have run into a host of problems, and many of the features have come late or failed to arrive at all. That has included the changes to Siri.
Now, Apple is rumoured to be launching that new version of Siri at its annual software event, the Worldwide Developers Conference or WWDC, which will be held next month.
The new version of Siri will come with a range of features, but Apple hopes that its focus on privacy will be a key way of differentiating it from other competitors that already…
