Mark Gurman, a journalist for Bloomberg, revealed in his latest issue of the Power On newsletter that apples were testing a revolutionary Siri function designed to allow iPhone users to perform precision operations by voice alone, such as searching for specific photographs, editing and sending, commenting on Instagram posts or adding commodities to shopping vehicles in shopping applications.
According to Gulman, the Siri function being tested for apples achieves deep application control through the enhanced App Intents system to support users in multistep missions through voice. For example, users can request Siri to extract information from their family ‘ s flight and lunch reservations from mail and message applications, or to call directly in Uber and search videos on YouTube. The test covers apple home-based applications (e.g., photos, mail, alarms) and third-party applications, including Uber, AllTrails, Threads, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp and some games.
The core of the new Siri function is the integration of apple intelligence with App Intents, which provides a higher level of linguistic understanding, screen perception and application control. Apple demonstrated this function for the first time at the Global Developer’s Congress in 2024, with a commitment to an interactive ecological “voice first”. However, owing to reliability problems in internal testing, the release of apples was delayed until spring 2026 and is expected to follow iOS 26.4, iPados 26.4, macos 26.4 and visionOS 26.4. According to Gulman, the Apple Global Data Operating Team has made this function its primary test to ensure compatibility and accuracy, especially in sensitive applications such as banking and health, which may restrict or disable functionality to avoid errors.
In the face of increasing competition in the AI industry, Apple had also previously considered replacing the self-study Apple Foundation Models with a large language model (LLMMs) from Anthropic or OpenAI, demonstrating its sense of urgency for competition in AI. On 30 June 2025, Bloomberg reported that Apple had discussed with two companies the testing of its LLMs at the cloud end, demonstrating the flexibility of Apple in the AI strategy.
Apple has been perfecting the design of Liquid Glass this year and constantly inverting the core system elements, which lays the foundation for a more uniform Siri experience when the voice drive comes. If the apple is able to maintain stability and rapidly expand application support after the first release of Siri AI, even if it is not the brightest part of Apple Intelligence, Siri AI voice control may become the most used feature.
