Overview
- Reports say Apple will unveil the system-level chatbot codenamed Campos at WWDC in June and ship it with iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 27 in September.
- Campos is expected to support multi‑turn voice and text conversations, perform web search, generate and edit content and images, summarize information, analyze files, and act on on‑screen context.
- The chatbot is slated to take over the current Siri interface and embed deeply across core Apple apps such as Mail, Music, Podcasts, TV, Photos, and Xcode to enable cross‑app tasks.
- Apple is said to rely heavily on custom Gemini‑based models and is discussing hosting portions on Google TPU servers, with the company reportedly paying about $1 billion per year for model access.
- Ahead of Campos, a non‑chat Siri update is planned for iOS 26.4, while Apple evaluates strict limits on long‑term user memory and prepares a source‑attributed ‘world knowledge answers’ feature under AI oversight consolidated by Craig Federighi.