Siri AI is coming this year: How its features compare with ChatGPT
Last Updated: 2026-06-18 14:37:19
After years of waiting, Apple finally gave Siri a major, and frankly, much-awaited makeover. The Cupertino-based tech giant announced a new version of Siri that is powered by Apple Intelligence (AI), promising a lot more smart features than the old Siri. This includes personal context understanding, broad world knowledge, and taking actions on the user’s behalf.
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Siri AI gets major upgrade with Apple Intelligence features- Siri AI now handles tasks across apps and understands context
- ChatGPT offers deeper reasoning and is available on more devices
We now compare it against OpenAI’s popular chatbot ChatGPT, and understand the key differences between them.
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What are the Siri AI top features?
With Apple Intelligence, Siri now gets a personal context understanding that allows Apple users to find what they need across messages, emails, photos, and more. This means that Siri AI can now do autonomous tasks across apps, such as drafting an email from scratch or editing and sharing photos. Further, Siri AI can answer questions about the content on a user’s screen, retrieve up-to-date information from the web on any topic, and generate an answer that addresses all their questions.
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Until now, iPhone users could invoke Siri using the side button and the 'Hey Siri' wake word. However, iPhone users can swipe down from the Dynamic Island to start a conversation.
The company has also integrated Siri AI into systemwide context menus, such as Spotlight search on Mac, allowing users to control-click to ask about images, files, or text on their screen.
Another interesting feature that Apple has announced for Siri is support for a new voice, allowing users to pick between six variations and four voices. Apple has also improved Siri's speech understanding, which means users can speak naturally, and the company assures that Siri will understand most types of accents.
How it compares with ChatGPT
ChatGPT remains a conversational chatbot, as it remembers deep context across entirely separate threads, transforming the interface from a transactional chatbot into a legitimate collaborator with a personal touch. It comes with three dedicated modes, such as Quick, Thinking, and Pro, which differ based on the speed of the answers and analytical output.
Currently, ChatGPT can also store information and even edit documents, research papers, transcripts, or large datasets without users having to break them into smaller parts or ask for custom commands.
Moreover, ChatGPT can be used to write production-level code, build automations, and handle multi-step assignments such as generating full reports or creating professional-grade presentations.
ChatGPT vs Siri AI: Availability details
Siri AI is currently running in the developer beta version with the iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 and visionOS 27 platform. The watchOS users will get it later this year. Siri AI needs Apple Intelligence-capable hardware and 12GB of RAM, which means many older iPhones, MacBooks, and iPads will not support it.
ChatGPT has been available to mobile and web users with different paid and free plans. This allows users to select between different modes depending on whether they need faster responses, deeper reasoning, or higher accuracy.
Verdict
It is safe to say that Siri AI is made for on-device commands, app navigation, and automation-based tasks. It is also restricted to the Apple ecosystem and excels at stringing together multi-step tasks natively. In contrast, ChatGPT can be accessed anywhere, and offers deep reasoning while also brainstorming ideas and researching for the user.