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TechRadar finds Apple Siri AI offers simpler, more integrated experience than Google Gemini on Android

A TechRadar comparison found Apple's Siri AI offers a simpler, more consistent experience than Google Gemini on Android, though Gemini provides more tools.

AI News Feed · 2026-09-09 13:35

The TechRadar reviewer said he has used Siri since the iPhone 4S in 2011 and had grown skeptical because Apple demonstrated a more powerful version of the assistant a year earlier but never delivered it. After the June announcement, he installed developer betas on a MacBook Neo, an iPad Pro and an iPad Mini, using the new Siri mostly through the old Spotlight shortcut or in the dedicated Siri app. For the first six weeks, he gave the same prompts to Siri and Gemini and compared the results.

He was initially puzzled that Siri offered no choice of AI models, unlike Gemini, which lets users switch among Flash-lite, Flash, Pro and Extended versions, and unlike Claude, whose options include Fable, Opus, Sonnet and Haiku. Siri offers no such settings; users simply open the app and start typing. The reviewer said he did not trust Siri at first because he could not know how it was approaching the conversation.

The breakthrough came after he installed iOS 27 on an iPhone 17 Pro Max. Swiping down on the screen and typing a question now triggers Siri instead of Spotlight. He said he came to enjoy not having to make a conscious decision about which model, version or mode to use, and described the result as exactly what he wants from an AI conversation: ask for something and get an answer.

TechRadar reported that Apple routes queries across multiple on-device and cloud models, including AFM 3 Core and AFM 3 Cloud Pro, through Private Cloud Compute, but the model names never appear to users. The report said Siri AI's real advantage over Google Gemini on Android is that it is embedded in iOS: no matter how or where users interact with it, the experience is the same, and a record of every voice or typed conversation is kept in the Siri app. Gemini's Android implementation is less cohesive, it said. The dedicated Gemini app contains far more tools and settings, but outside that app users must actively seek Gemini out. Tapping the Google search bar on a Pixel homescreen produces AI overviews, which is not direct Gemini use, according to the report. Enabling Gemini as the voice assistant also requires extra steps; on a Pixel 10 Pro XL, even after the reviewer set the power button to trigger Gemini, a pop-up told him to tap one more button to enable the microphone.

The reviewer also said that while working on the report, he received an email from Google saying Google Assistant has now been replaced by Gemini on all his compatible devices.