Apple is quietly working on a significant upgrade to Siri that could make the long-serving digital assistant feel considerably more capable and natural to use. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the company is testing a feature that allows Siri to process multiple requests in a single spoken query.
This development, slated for inclusion in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 (all expected later in 2026), marks a notable step forward for a voice assistant that first launched nearly 15 years ago.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
The move would bring Siri closer to the abilities of newer artificial intelligence assistants.
The feature would let users combine requests — for example, asking Siri to check the weather, create a calendar appointment and send a message — all within a single prompt. Siri currently requires users to make requests individually, making it a laggard in the AI space.
The work is part of a broader effort to overhaul and modernize Siri, which was first introduced in October 2011. Apple is aiming to turn the assistant into a more capable tool that can understand context, such as users’ personal information and what’s on their screen.
The company is poised to unveil the new Siri and other Apple Intelligence features at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8. It’s been a long time coming. Apple first demonstrated a new, more AI-infused Siri in June 2024 — before delaying its arrival multiple times due to engineering snags. The software is now on track for a release this fall…
MacDailyNews Take: Instead of issuing one command, waiting for Siri to respond, and then following up with another, users would be able to string together several actions in one go. For example, you might say something like:
“Hey Siri, check the weather tomorrow, add ‘buy milk’ to my shopping list, and set a reminder to call Mom at 7 PM.”
Siri would then parse the entire request and handle each part appropriately — pulling weather data, creating a note or list item, and scheduling the reminder — without requiring separate invocations.
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