New Siri will bring voice control to just about all apps — but maybe not banking

Apple’s goal for its Apple Intelligence-based Siri is to give it the ability to control apps through voice commands, but will be limited at launch, and may never control banking apps.

Apple Intelligence will give Siri the ability to control apps by voice alone

It’s previously been reported that Apple had opened up Siri to developers specifically so that it would become more context aware when a user makes a request. That would be via the increasingly important app intents system, and now Bloomberg says that having Siri control apps by voice is the real focus of Apple’s development work.

Siri can already open apps and achieve a degree of further control by having voice commands trigger Shortcuts. But reportedly the ambition now is for a user to be able to do everything from editing photos, buying items, or adding social media comments, all without touching the iPhone screen.

Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible

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