Apple to overhaul Siri with AI web search by spring 2026

Apple is preparing a major overhaul of Siri that would add an AI powered web search tool and deeper device integration, with a planned rollout in the spring of 2026, according to reports. The upgrade would pair Apple’s own foundation models with outside technology to give Siri the ability to crawl the web, summarize results and act on users’ personal context across apps and services on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

The internally named feature, reportedly called World Knowledge Answers, is described as a hybrid system that combines web crawling and search with a large language model to deliver up to date answers. Apple’s foundation models would serve as the base “planner” and handle on device, personal-context tasks, while a separate “search operator” and “summarizer” could draw on a version of Google’s Gemini running in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute to collate and condense web content. Reports say Apple and Google have reached an agreement to allow testing of a Google-derived model for that purpose, and that the technology could later be added to Safari and Spotlight.

The envisioned search experience is said to use a mix of text, photos, videos and local points of interest, and to...