Siri's personalized features and improved integration were supposed to come in the iOS 18.4 update, but now it looks like it won't even be added in iOS 18.5, but delayed until iOS 19.
📰 According to Daring Fireball, Apple representatives have said that implementing new chips for Siri with Apple Intelligence will take longer, and eventually they won't even come out in iOS 18.5:
Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added an integration with ChatGPT. We’ve also 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.
📅 2026 is even later than insider Mark Gurman had predicted, saying that some of the Siri features would launch as early as iOS 18.5. At the same time, he notes:
The delays – especially of announced features – are embarrassing for Apple and add more evidence to the idea that the company is struggling in artificial intelligence. They also threaten to set back work on future improvements.
Apple had been planning to make Siri more ChatGPT-like and conversational next year. But now only the initial underpinnings for that upgrade are expected to be ready by 2026, during the iOS 19 release cycle. The actual interface that users experience likely won’t arrive until iOS 20 in 2027.
🧐 Some other insiders agreed with this conclusion, recalling information that the release of the new smart HomePad could be delayed until late 2025.
💬 Can the company blame John Giannandrea, Senior Vice President Machine Learning and AI Strategy?
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