While the biggest cheer at WWDC in 2024 was Apple showing off the new AI enhancements to Siri, that upgrade is now delayed to later in 2025, or worse.
In a statement to John Gruber of Daring Fireball, an Apple spokesperson said that the company has “been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps. It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year.”
The feature was initially expected to be a part of an iOS update this spring, but over time it seems like it’s falling back. From the wording, I’d expect Apple to release it later this year. That said, it’s a little unclear and the statement could be intentionally vague in case Apple needs to push the release date to 2026.
Alongside this, there have been lots of other reports that Apple is also delaying its full AI-Siri upgrade to 2027. This news broke a few days ago, and while it was disappointing, a lot of people didn’t seem to mind since we were still on track for the more personalized Siri update this spring. Now that it has been delayed, the slate of Apple Intelligence features for the iPhone 16 feels much more lacklustre.
Currently, devices with Apple Intelligence can access a variety of AI tools, but the two Siri improvements were focused on making the assistant better understand vocal flubs and integrating a ChatGPT extension.
Other Apple Intelligence features include a spot removal tool in Photos, a variety of writing and summarization tools, notification summaries, and smarter do not disturb modes.
Source: Daring Fireball, Bloomberg
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