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Apple Tests Revamped Siri With Internal Chatbot Veritas

Apple is vetting capabilities privately to ensure reliability before deciding how to ship the assistant.

Siri under construction
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Overview

  • The internal iPhone app, codenamed Veritas, mirrors popular chatbots with multi‑turn conversations, saved history and follow‑up queries.
  • Apple is using Veritas only inside the company with no current plan for a public release, positioning it as a testing harness for the next Siri.
  • Trials cover access to personal data on devices—such as emails, messages and music libraries—and in‑app actions like editing photos.
  • Apple is developing parallel versions powered by its own models and by third‑party LLMs, with reported talks involving Google’s Gemini, OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • After delays tied to reliability issues and AI leadership changes, the upgraded Siri is now targeted for a potential spring 2026 launch, with the AKI team building new web‑answer features.