Apple’s forthcoming standalone Siri chatbot app in iOS 27 could offer some key advantages for privacy-conscious iPhone users, according to a new report. The well-connected Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman says the app with models powered by Google Gemini will benefit from a auto-deleting the conversation history as soon as every thirty days.
Apple currently offers the same functionality within iMessage, where users can delete after a month or a year. It’s also possible to just leave them there indefinitely. The plan is to offer the same for the Siri app, according to Bloomberg. Gemini currently offers users the opportunity to delete activity older than every three months, 18 months or 36 months. So Apple’s version could give users more recent control over auto deleting.
As has previously been reported, the Google Gemini-powered app won’t just hand over all your data to Google’s servers. The Gemini models will still exist on Apple’s private cloud compute servers and will not leave those. This seems to be a key tenet of the deal between Google and Apple. Apple hasn’t been able to match Gemini’s capabilities in its own development of an Apple Intelligence-powered version of Siri. However, it didn’t want to sell out its own loyal users completely to Google.
Furthermore, the new Siri app will have two new interface views. It can look like a series of Messages-like conversations or a full conversation view which is a continuation of every other interaction. According to Gurman the new Siri app will be released in beta initially. He writes:
“Test versions of iOS 27 within Apple use this label for the new Siri and include a toggle to leave the Siri beta. Given that we’re only a month out from WWDC, there is a strong chance that this approach will be used in developer beta versions and even when iOS 27 ships this fall. This all means that, even after a two-year delay (the revamped Siri was supposed to arrive in 2024), the company could still brand the new features as unfinished.”
This isn’t uncommon for Apple Intelligence features. Most of them have launched in beta first.
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