Since his retirement was announced in 2025, Apple Intelligence head John Giannandrea has been reduced to the role of an advisor, but is now expected to exit Apple Park shortly.

If you spend your notice period at home, you're on gardening leave. If you spend it at work and you're waiting for when your contracted stock bonuses realize, it's called "rest and vest".

It appears that the stock options agreed for John Giannandrea's contract when Apple hired him in 2018, are due on April 15. According to Bloomberg's "Power On" newsletter, Giannandrea is consequently going to leave around then.

Giannandrea joined Apple from Google where he was the head of the firm's AI development. At Apple, he was expected to work on Siri and the Apple Car.

"Our technology must be infused with the values we all hold dear," Cook said at the time. "John shares our commitment to privacy and our thoughtful approach as we make computers even smarter and more personal."

Over the following years, it appeared that Giannandrea's responsibilities grew extensively, even as the Apple Car was abandoned. It was said that he concentrated on Apple's backend Machine Learning and AI features and not so much on Siri, though.

That resulted in March 2025 when control of Siri was taken away from Giannandrea. It went to Mike Rockwell, previously best known for his work on the Apple Vision Pro, and he was to report directly to Craig Federighi.

Then when Giannandrea's retirement was decided on, whether by him or Apple, his role was almost completely eradicated. Responsibilities such as AI foundation models, and AI testing, were divided between Federighi, Eddy Cue, and COO Sabih Khan.

This sounds as if Giannandrea was seen inside Apple as a failure, but it was his work that still seems to drive Apple's ambitions in AI.

What does appear to have happened, though, is that he was left with just an advisory role after his resignation. That situation has so far continued from December 2025, but it's not known how much advising he has done.

It's also not clear whether Apple will want him to continue advising. What is certain is that Apple's next vesting date is April 15, and it's likely that this is when Giannandrea will hand over his pass at Apple Park.