Gemini-Powered Siri: 7 New Features Coming in iOS Soon

• Siri will use Google’s Gemini model to deliver more conversational, factual answers.
• Reported upgrades include storytelling, emotional support, booking tasks and creating Notes documents.
• Apple will fine-tune Gemini without visible Google branding; some features ship in iOS 26.4, others in iOS 27.

What Apple and Google announced

Apple confirmed it will integrate Google’s Gemini models to power a more personalized Siri, part of its broader Apple Intelligence initiative. The move aims to give Siri deeper context about a user’s apps, calendar, and past conversations while improving on-screen awareness.

Why this matters

Adding Gemini brings a large-language model trained by Google into Siri’s backend, which could significantly expand the assistant’s ability to handle conversational queries, multi-step tasks, and context-aware suggestions.

Seven reported Siri upgrades

Core capabilities expected

According to a report in The Information, the revamped Siri prototype includes seven headline features: conversational factual answers, longer storytelling, emotional support responses, task assistance (for example, booking travel), the ability to create structured content in apps like Notes (such as recipes), recall of past conversations, and proactive suggestions driven by app data like Calendar events.

Conversational answers and storytelling

Siri is expected to answer more world-knowledge and factual questions in a conversational style and to generate longer narrative responses on request, improving utility for news, summaries, and creative prompts.

Emotional support and richer tasks

Apple reportedly wants Siri to offer empathetic responses and to manage more complex tasks—such as booking travel arrangements—by interacting with multiple apps and data sources.

App-aware creation and proactive help

Gemini will reportedly enable Siri to assemble documents in Notes (recipes, itineraries) and surface proactive suggestions based on information in Mail, Messages, and Calendar.

How Apple will manage Gemini integration

The report notes the current prototype does not carry Google or Gemini branding; Apple plans to fine-tune the model so Siri’s tone and behavior match Apple’s standards. That suggests Apple will control outputs and guardrails while relying on Google’s underlying LLM.

When these features will appear

Apple first previewed the personalized Siri at WWDC 2024. The most significant upgrades are expected to arrive with iOS 26.4 in March or April, while some capabilities may be deferred to iOS 27. Details remain subject to change and some reporting is based on anonymous sources and paywalled coverage from The Information.