APPLE TO LET RIVALS POWER ITS OWN PHONE — GEMINI, CLAUDE, AND CHATGPT COMING AS SIRI ALTERNATIVES Apple has never been comfortable letting competitors inside its walled garden. It is about to hand them the keys. According to multiple reports confirmed ahead of WWDC 2026, Apple is building an Extensions system into iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 that will let users choose which AI company powers their Siri and Apple Intelligence features. Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude are named as the first two partners beyond the existing ChatGPT integration. Users will be able to set a preferred AI the same way they set a default browser today, with the chosen model handling Writing Tools, Siri responses, and more. This is a significant strategic pivot. Apple spent years insisting its own AI capabilities were sufficient. The company’s internal models have struggled to match OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic at the frontier. Rather than fall further behind and risk losing premium users to Android, Apple is turning its hardware strength into a marketplace. For Anthropic and Google, the prize is access to hundreds of millions of iPhones. For users, it means real choice about which AI reads their messages and drafts their emails. Apple will unveil the full Extensions system at its developer conference on June 8. What gets announced there may reshape the entire consumer AI market overnight. Keywords: Apple iOS 27 AI extensions, Siri third-party AI, iPhone Gemini Claude ChatGPT, WWDC 2026 AI