Just ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, Bloomberg has released leaked renderings showing what Apple's planned AI upgrade could look like on the iPhone. This includes a completely redesigned Siri app intended to compete with ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, as well as details on how Siri's new capabilities will be integrated throughout the operating system. The images were created by Bloomberg based on what it observed and learned from sources. While users will still be able to press a button in iOS 27 to activate Siri, the animation and response will now emerge from the iPhone's Dynamic Island—the black pill-shaped area at the top of the screen that currently houses Live Activities, which are real-time updates and interactive displays from apps that appear directly on the Home Screen. This mode will work best for quick voice queries or searches, much like how people currently use Siri.

A new mode, however, will make Siri-powered search easily accessible by taking advantage of people's muscle memory for swiping down on their screen to access Spotlight Search—a built-in way to find information from both your phone and the web in one place. The swipe-down gesture will still open search, but now those searches will draw on the AI-powered Siri, which includes a rebuilt AI model that uses Google's Gemini AI technology under the hood for added intelligence.

From this interface, iPhone users can search, launch apps, start messages, ask about the weather, add calendar appointments, search their notes, and trigger app shortcuts, according to Bloomberg. Results will be displayed in formatted text within a card-style interface that also emerges from the Dynamic Island. Apple's approach to AI bears a striking resemblance to its earlier multi-billion dollar partnership with Google, which made Google the default search engine on iPhone. Just as building a search engine from scratch was never part of Apple's strategy, AI presents a similar calculation—it's too expensive and complex to go it alone, at least for now. So Apple is working with outside partners for the AI technology users want today, while simultaneously developing its own models, including local AI that runs on devices rather than in the cloud—an approach that allows Apple to emphasize its privacy brand without needing to catch up.

Bloomberg also notes there will be a new standalone Siri app—as previously reported—designed to compete directly with chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others. The app will show your past chat history and allow you to upload documents and photos, in addition to text. Scale, as always, is Apple's advantage. While ChatGPT now has 900 million weekly active users, Apple's install base (all devices, not just iPhone) is 2.5 billion—meaning the company has an unmatched runway to introduce AI to people who haven't yet adopted standalone AI tools.