- Apple is working to make other voice assistants available in iOS according to a new report
- The move is expected to be required to comply with the EU rules
- You can make your iPhone’s action button load either chatgpt or gemini right now
According to a new report from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, Apple is working to add the ability to use alternative voice assistants, including AI chatbots like Chatgpt and Gemini, instead of Siri on iPhone for the first time.
The move is coming because Apple will have to comply with the expected EU rules.
Gurman quotes “a person with knowledge of the case” as a source of his story, but he has a track record for being exactly when it comes to predicting what Apple will do next.
According to the same report, Apple is still working hard to make Siri via Apple Intelligence, more conversation, and has even created offices in Zurich to create an “LLM Siri” in the future that will be more intelligent.
So it is certainly not a case of Apple giving up Siri for other voice assistants, but it seems that it will have to allow third -party voice assistants to replace SIRI on iPhone if it will continue to sell iPhones in the EU in the future.
Using AI on your iPhone
Of course, it could mean that the ability to use another voice assistant could be limited to only iPhones sold in the EU, but no matter what, it opens up the opportunity to use Google Assistant or even Chatgpt or Gemini with your iPhone if you prefer it to Siri.
SIRI can already hand over complex requests to chatgpt, but the implementation is clumsy and certainly not as smooth as it would be if Chatgpt handled all voice assistant tasks by default.
Of course, you can actually use Chatgpt and Gemini with your iPhone right now via their apps, but a while ago I discovered a nice hack to call the voice mode for each AI from a simple press on the action button.
While AI -Chatbots can’t interact with your phone settings like Siri, it can at least give you a sense of what it would be like if Chatgpt or Gemini was your voice assistant and it’s an excellent way to open AI apps quickly if you want to ask a question and need an answer quickly.
Calls to Chatgpt and Gemini
If you would like to try this right now, simply follow these steps:
Select the Action button button in Settings and then shortcut. Scroll down the list of apps you see here and choose either chatgpt or gemini, and then select either ‘Start Voice Conversation’ or ‘Talk Live with Gemini’, from the options that appear ..
(It is important to do so in the way described above and not access Chatgpt or Gemini via the ‘Open App …’ button because this does not give you voice mode options.)
Now, when you give the action button a tap and hold, you jump right into a voice chat with your favorite AI chatbot.
I actually set up a while ago on my iPhone and I still use it all the time. I really find it hand when I have a question that needs an answer and I’d rather ask chatgpt using my voice than start writing with the keyboard.
Remember that if you want to turn off Siri completely or reduce unintended SIRI enables, then in Settings> Apple Intelligence & Siri> Talk & Type to Siri you can turn off “Hey Siri” and change the settings to enable it.
