Apple is reportedly accelerating plans to turn Siri from a question-and-command assistant into software that can act inside apps and continue working toward longer-running goals. The roadmap would first expand direct app control, then add third-party actions and eventually more persistent agent behavior.
According to Bloomberg reporting cited by The Verge, iOS 27.3 is expected to let Siri perform finer-grained tasks in Apple apps, such as rotating or cropping images in Photos and organizing tabs in Safari. Integration with outside apps is expected later in the spring. Examples include placing an order through Grubhub or booking a table with OpenTable.
Those releases are described as plans, not currently available features. The more ambitious step may come as early as next year: Siri could track a goal, decide what should happen next and continue without the user initiating every individual action. That would move it closer to persistent assistants such as OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse.
App control makes permissions and confirmation design as important as model quality. Cropping a photo is easy to reverse; ordering food or making a reservation can create charges and commitments. Apple has not detailed how third-party access, approvals or ongoing tasks would be governed, so the practical value will depend on how precisely Siri can act without taking authority users did not intend to grant.