Apple will lean on Google to help finish its bungled attempts to smarten up its virtual assistant Siri and bring other artificial intelligence features to the iPhone as the trendsetting company plays catch up in technology’s latest craze.

Replace Siri with ChatGPT in iOS 26 for smarter, faster, and more accurate voice assistance. How to set it up and unlock advanced features.

Quick Read Apple stock fell over 10% across seven sessions and entered correction territory. Alphabet surpassed Apple in market cap amid concerns Apple lags in AI development. A major Siri upgrade using Google Gemini is expected this spring.

Apple’s long-delayed AI-powered Siri could finally near the launch. Featuring personal context, on-screen awareness and app actions, the revamped assistant could debut with iOS 26.4 as early as March or April,

With the help of a simple question to Apple's Siri, a Texas man ended up snagging a 2.09-carat brown diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park.

Likely arriving with iOS 26.4, the so-called LLM Siri promises to act more like ChatGPT and Gemini. But will Apple finally succeed this time around?