At this year's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2026), while releasing a new AI version of Siri, Apple announced the launch of an independent application for this voice assistant, which is considered by the outside world to be an important part of "the largest and most disruptive change" since the advent of Siri.
According to reports, the new Siri application will serve as a centralized entry point for user interaction records with the voice assistant. The system will archive the user’s past conversations with Siri in a unified manner. Users can browse and reopen historical conversations in the application according to the timeline just like using chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude. When a user clicks on a certain conversation, the app will automatically generate a summary of the conversation, helping users quickly review the core content without having to read the entire transcript.
In addition to archiving and overviewing existing conversations, the new app will also serve as the main entry point for launching new conversations. The application interface provides a variety of interaction methods: on the one hand, users can directly input text or upload documents and pictures; on the other hand, they can also have natural conversations with Siri through voice mode. Its overall interaction form is consistent with the current mainstream general-purpose AI chatbots.
Apple said that the Siri independent application will cover multiple system platforms such as iOS, macOS and iPadOS, allowing users to seamlessly access the same set of assistant services on multiple devices such as iPhone, Mac and iPad. All conversations with Siri will be synchronized between user devices through iCloud and will be stored and transmitted privately in accordance with Apple's consistent privacy protection policy.
As Apple continues to expand Siri's AI capabilities at the system level, this independent application is seen as further "carrying and organizing" the assistant's functions. Compared with the past methods that were only called through system wake-up words or embedded interfaces, the new application provides users with a clearer entrance and more organized history management, and also reserves space for more complex and diverse intelligent assistant functions in the future.