The "Hey Siri" command may get shortened down to just "Siri," a last-minute rumor about Apple's WWDC announcements for iOS 17 claims.

The "Hey Siri" command has been ingrained into many iPhone and iPad users as the way to start asking Siri a question. If a late Friday rumor is true, users may not need to say "Hey" anymore.

Tweeting on Friday evening, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that a major project to change the "Hey Siri" trigger phrase to just "Siri" may have come to fruition, According to Gurman, it's something to look out for as a possible announcement during WWDC.

Gurman previously discussed the project in November 2022, with engineers changing a lot of the "underlying engineering" to get it to work. The problem had multiple facets, including adopting it for accents, the detection of a two-syllable trigger word instead of a longer phrase, and considerable retraining of the AI.