2026 is monumental for Apple in general and Siri in particular. With Siri's Gemini-powered AI capabilities, Apple is expected to step into the AI chatbot limelight and we have already heard some interesting details about it. Now, the latest report suggests Siri will be able to handle multi-step queries with ease in iOS 27.
Siri in iOS 27 could handle multiple queries at once
The latest Power On newsletter of Mark Gurman has revealed that the upcoming Siri revamp in iOS 27 will allow users to throw multiple queries at the AI chatbot at once. This means that Siri will be able to perform context-based processes and understand the user's input to take the next steps without needing external inputs.
This will make Siri capable at par with ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Claude and Google Gemini, who have been doing multi-step context-aware AI tasks for the longest part. Also, by being able to handle complex requests and fulfil them successfully, Siri will be able to fulfil its agentic AI capabilities.
The report further states that the biggest noticeable change with this will be the way users interact with Siri. As of now, for every request, Siri needs to be activated repeatedly with the wake word. However, with Siri in iOS 27, users will need to wake Siri once and throw multi-step processes at it.
For instance, if a user wants to pull up a location on Apple Maps and then send it to a contact, in the current model, Siri recognises this as a two-step process. However, with agentic AI power, user will need to wake Siri once, tell them to search and pull the location and send it to the contact and Siri will perform that action without needing further inputs.
Moreover, this will work with every AI-powered task since Siri's multi-step process understanding will work in tandem with Google Gemini and Apple Intelligence. This means that from surfing the web to performing on-device context-aware actions, Siri will be able to recognise processes as layers and use a dedicated Execution Engine to process the data and fulfil the request at one go. This is similar to how Claude operates with its stacked query processing in SQL.
However, Gurman notes that there is a caveat to this process. Unlike Gemini, Claude and Perplexity, who can handle an information dump to analyse and perform, Siri will need to process different requests individually. This means that, once users wake Siri up, they will need to break down their requests rather than throwing all the information at Siri at once.
Although this is expected to cause friction, the report states that it will also help Siri perform tasks more accurately and true to the context at hand. That said, it is unclear at the time of writing if Siri's multi-step capabilities will go live with the first beta of iOS 27. However, they could be unveiled at the Apple WWDC 2026 event set for June 2026.
