Apple’s Google-Powered Siri Overhaul Set for February Debut

Apple is finally getting ready to show us what a smart Siri actually looks like.

According to the latest Power On newsletter from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is less than a month away from debuting a revamped Siri powered by Google’s Gemini. The announcement is expected in the second half of February, with the features likely arriving in the iOS 26.4 beta shortly after.

Users will finally get features like Personal Context, which lets Siri access information from your emails, messages, and calendar, and on-screen awareness that allows the assistant to understand what’s displayed on your device. The update will also enable Siri to take actions within apps based on voice commands.

Behind the scenes, Apple is calling the technology Apple Foundation Models version 10. It runs at approximately 1.2 trillion parameters and operates on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute servers. But the engine driving it all is Google’s Gemini.

How Apple ended up with Google

The partnership came together after a turbulent year inside Apple’s AI division. Bloomberg reports that by mid-2025, executives, including software chief Craig Federighi, were seriously considering ditching Apple’s internal AI models for outside help.

Initial talks with Anthropic stalled over pricing — the AI startup wanted “several billion dollars annually.” OpenAI posed different problems: the company was actively recruiting Apple engineers and developing its own hardware with former Apple designer Jony Ive.

That left Google. By August 2025, Apple revisited Gemini and found the technology had improved dramatically. Google also offered favorable financial terms. A September 2025 court ruling that preserved Apple and Google’s $20 billion annual search deal made the partnership less risky.

The companies finalized their agreement in November, with Google officially announcing it earlier this month while Apple took its characteristic low-key approach.

An even bigger Siri overhaul coming this summer

Apple isn’t stopping at iOS 26.4. The company plans to unveil a completely redesigned Siri at WWDC 2026, codenamed Campos, according to Gurman’s reporting.

This version will launch with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 in beta this summer before public release in fall 2026. Campos represents what Bloomberg describes as “a fresh architecture and interface designed from the ground up for the chatbot era.”

The new Siri will support sustained, back-and-forth conversations similar to ChatGPT or Google’s own Gemini chatbot. It will run on an even more advanced model — Apple Foundation Models version 11 — expected to compete with Gemini 3 and be significantly more capable than the iOS 26.4 version.

To keep it fast, Apple and Google are even discussing running this version directly on Google’s own servers rather than Apple’s.

Management shuffle

It’s not just the software changing. Tim Cook recently put hardware chief John Ternus in charge of both industrial and software design teams. While Cook isn’t retiring yet, Gurman notes this move makes it “crystal clear that Ternus is the leading successor” for the CEO spot.

Also read: Private AI Compute highlights how Google is pitching cloud AI with privacy guarantees that echo Apple’s approach.

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