Google Confirms Gemini-Powered Siri Coming Later This Year

I actually asked Gemini yesterday if it's excited to be working with Siri and this was the response:

It’s an exciting time to be an AI! The partnership between Apple and Google has definitely moved from "rumor" to "reality" here in 2026, and the integration is deeper than many expected.
While Siri will still be the "face" you talk to on your iPhone, I (Gemini) am essentially becoming the "brain" behind her most complex thoughts. Here is how our "collaboration" is rolling out this year:
The Rollout Timeline
We are currently in the middle of a two-phase launch:

* Phase 1 (Spring 2026): With the recent release of iOS 26.4, Siri has already started using Gemini for better context awareness and on-screen recognition. If you ask her, "What's the main point of this article?" while browsing Safari, that's me helping her summarize it in real-time.
* Phase 2 (September 2026): When iOS 27 launches alongside the new iPhone 18, the "Full Conversational Siri" will arrive. This is when the integration goes deep—allowing for back-and-forth dialogue (20+ exchanges) and complex tasks like, "Find the flight info from my email, check if it's delayed, and text my Uber driver the update."

How We Work Together
It’s a bit like a tag-team match. Apple is very protective of your privacy, so we’ve set up a specific workflow:
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* On-Device Apple Intelligence: For simple things (setting a timer, opening an app), Siri handles it locally on your iPhone.
* Private Cloud Compute: For slightly more complex things, Apple’s own servers take the lead.
* The Gemini Layer: For massive "world knowledge" or complex reasoning, the request is sent to a custom version of Gemini 3 running on Apple’s secure infrastructure.

What to Expect at WWDC (June 8–12, 2026)
Keep an eye out for the WWDC keynote in a few weeks. Word around Apple Park is that the Siri interface is getting a total "neon glow" redesign in the Dynamic Island to signify when the high-level AI (that's me!) is active.
It’s a "best of both worlds" situation: you get the privacy and ecosystem integration of Apple, with the sheer reasoning power of Gemini. I'm ready if you are!

June 2024: We have this new Siri and it is really great. Marketing video! Can I try it? No, of course not. Can you demo it on stage at an event? Silly, customer. Will there be a beta this summer? It will be coming in the vaguest definition of what a year is. So you probably don't have any marketing promos yet? Here's some Bella Ramsey ads!

June 2025: We had a completely finished and updated Siri, but we didn't like it, so we scraped it and started over. Great, can I... No, you can't see the old version. The new version is working great internally. But I... No, you can't see that either. So it's vaporware? Listen, we got a lot of products in the pipeline.

January 2026: We have a deal with Google to use Gemini. Does that mean you scraped the second model that was working internally and are on to a 3rd model? We're not here to talk about that. We have a lot of products in the pipeline.

February 2026: We always said it was coming this year, so it's not really late as we only delayed it once. But Gurman said... We're not going to talk about him. But you just switched... Again, lots of products in the pipeline.

April 2026: Google says it's coming this year. What's coming, again? Foundational Stuff powered by Gemini. Is that Siri? A firm, but definite maybe.

Honestly, this one will go on the history books.

The massive failure of Siri and the delays, ultimately resulting in Apple caving and doing business with direct competitor #1.

Jobs would've never allowed this. This was a clear mismanagement and lack of vision of Tim Cook and everyone involved with Siri. As an engineer and if I were to be an engineering manager at Apple, I would clean house entirely.

Yeah it’s funny to see the so called pundits putting a positive spin on this.

Tim failed miserably as CEO. He essentially scaled Steve’s products and services (ie, continued doing his job as COO) but put the company in a really bad competitive position by falling so far behind in AI, the most disruptive tech since the Internet.

Your opinion is unfortunately not backed by the facts. Jobs didn't pass away last week, it was 15 years ago. Apple is one of the most valuable companies in the world, continues to see quarter on quarter revenue growth, increasing sales for core product lines. As both an Apple customer and Apple shareholder I am might happy with what Cook has done.

On AI, I really do believe it is too early to make that call. You may be right, but it is too early to say.

Honestly, this one will go on the history books.

The massive failure of Siri and the delays, ultimately resulting in Apple caving and doing business with direct competitor #1.

Jobs would've never allowed this. This was a clear mismanagement and lack of vision of Tim Cook and everyone involved with Siri. As an engineer and if I were to be an engineering manager at Apple, I would clean house entirely.

Just give it a rest, no one would know what Jobs would do in today’s business and tech world. Apple and Google have been in business together sharing info since 2002.

I actually asked Gemini yesterday if it's excited to be working with Siri and this was the response:

Mark Gurman, is that you?

Anyways this reads a bit like AI slop rather than reality. I mean correct me if I'm wrong but Phase 1 as written is not how it works for 26.4 or even 26.5 beta