TL;DR
- Role Cuts: Apple is eliminating more than 200 roles across Vision Pro, Siri, and software teams, according to Bloomberg.
- Bay Area: California records cover 147 scheduled separations at Apple offices in Cupertino and Sunnyvale starting October 19.
- Job Options: Affected employees may apply for other Apple positions, but the company has not promised transfers or placement.
Apple is eliminating more than 200 roles across its Vision Pro, Siri, and software organizations, according to a Bloomberg report, including 147 scheduled separations at offices in Cupertino and Sunnyvale. The cuts stand out because Apple is closing or shrinking specific teams while creating jobs around a redesigned Siri and continuing to develop Vision Pro and visionOS.
The broader figure comes from people familiar with the changes, while Apple confirmed only that existing roles would be affected. A California filing reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle provides the firmer basis for 147 positions: 79 at Apple Park in Cupertino, 40 at one Sunnyvale office, and 28 at another. Those separations are scheduled to take effect on October 19. The filing covers a Bay Area subset of the reported total, so the two figures should not be added together or treated as the same geographic count.
Apple has not published the sizes of the affected teams, so the exact counts do not show what share of each organization is being removed.
Affected Product Divisions
About half of the reported roles sit in Apple’s Vision Pro organization. The headset’s gaming team is largely shutting down, while the internal unit that produces Apple Immersive Video is being reduced. Apple plans to make fewer of those high-resolution, three-dimensional videos in-house and rely more on outside producers. The report says an episode can require several Apple and contractor crews and cost several million dollars, making internal production difficult to justify against limited active use of the headset.
Employees were told the headset and visionOS were not going away. Apple had also continued software work shortly before the cuts: visionOS 27 entered developer testing with new spatial tools, while Apple planned to add Siri AI to Vision Pro. Apple is shrinking internal gaming and video work inside a platform it continues to develop.
The other roughly 100 roles are spread across Siri and software teams. Apple is rebuilding Siri around a new AI architecture and says the change requires different expertise. Some existing positions are being eliminated while resources move to new roles for the assistant. The Intelligent Systems Experience organization, which works on intelligence features across Apple’s apps and services, is also being reorganized as more of those functions are distributed across the company.
These changes share a workforce mechanism, not a single product outcome. Apple is reducing specialized work in some established teams while seeking different skills for products it continues to develop. The exact distribution below the two roughly 100-role groups remains undisclosed.
What Affected Employees Can Do
Apple says affected employees will receive support through the transition, including opportunities to apply for other positions at the company. Its statement draws a clear line between jobs that are disappearing and jobs that are being created.
“While we will create new roles as part of this change, it will also impact a limited number of existing roles.”
Apple spokesperson
Those applications come with no promise of transfer or placement. Apple disclosed no severance terms or application outcomes, and the locations of reported positions beyond the 147 Bay Area filings remain unspecified.
The same distinction applies to hiring. Apple’s job site listed openings in Siri Speech, Foundation Models, machine learning, and software dated August 20 through August 26. Those listings demonstrate recruitment for selected skills, but a posted vacancy is not a completed hire. Without the number of roles created, filled, or vacated elsewhere, the cuts cannot be translated into a net company headcount change.