Apple may split Siri into two versions, with Campos in iOS 27 soon

For years, Siri’s biggest weakness hasn’t been its voice. It’s the blank stare. Ask Siri to act on what’s on your screen or do tasks across your apps, and it still falls back to generic replies. That is the gap Apple is now trying to close, and the fix appears to come with a major concession.

Multiple reports indicate Apple is preparing to show a more personalized Siri upgrade in the second half of February 2026. The timing aligns with iOS 26.4 entering beta in February before rolling out publicly in March or early April.

Apple has not announced an event, and the exact format is still unclear, but the schedule suggests they want this on the record before the next software cycle begins.

The headline change is the “brain” behind Siri

This isn’t just a feature update. The reporting frames it as Apple plugging Google’s Gemini models into the foundation Siri will run on, a striking irony for the Apple Intelligence era. One of the iPhone’s most visible AI experiences could be powered by the company behind Android.

The context is last week’s Apple–Google agreement, where the companies confirmed the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google’s Gemini technology, explicitly pointing to a more personalized Siri as a near-term outcome.

That deal does more than explain the February timing. It hints at Apple’s broader strategy: keep the familiar interface and deep OS integration, but be willing to swap in outside models when they move faster than Apple’s own.

What Apple is expected to show in February

The near-term Siri upgrade is being positioned as the version that finally delivers the WWDC-era promise: a Siri that can use personal context and understand what’s on your screen well enough to take real actions, not just answer questions.

The reason February matters is credibility. Apple has been talking about a smarter, more contextual Siri for a while, but a controlled demo gives the company a way to prove the upgrade exists before it hits public beta and gets stress-tested at scale.

When it ships, and who gets it first

The same reporting ties the rollout to iOS 26.4, with beta testing expected in February and a public release in March or early April.

Device eligibility is also expected to be part of the story. Coverage citing Bloomberg indicates the upgraded Siri features will land first on newer hardware, with the iPhone 15 Pro and later frequently mentioned as the cutoff. This matters because “new Siri” may arrive in software for everyone, but the full experience could still feel gated by which iPhone you own.

iOS 26.4 is not the endgame

The Report suggests Apple’s Siri roadmap as a two-step release. The first is the iOS 26.4 upgrade coming in the spring, which finally delivers the WWDC-era “personal context + on-screen awareness” Siri and is powered by a Gemini-backed stack Apple labels internally as Apple Foundation Models v10. 

The second is the bigger reboot codenamed Campos, a rebuilt chatbot-style Siri slated for iOS 27 which is expected to use a more advanced Gemini-backed layer internally described as Apple Foundation Models v11 and potentially run on Google’s cloud and TPUs for faster, more accurate responses.

In other words, iOS 26.4 is expected to give Siri “eyes” and context. Campos is the attempt to rebuild Siri into something closer to what users now expect from ChatGPT-style assistants.

Why this moment feels bigger than a Siri update

This confirms a new reality for Apple where it no longer needs to be the smartest in the room; it just needs to be the best integrator. If Apple can plug a best-in-class model into Siri while keeping the OS-level advantages only Apple controls, it can narrow the perceived gap without waiting for a single in-house breakthrough.

Apple still hasn’t confirmed the February demo or iOS 26.4 timing, but the concentration of reporting has turned this from Siri is coming later into a calendar story. And the most consequential detail isn’t the month. It’s the mind powering the assistant when it arrives.