Apple Intelligence Siri Overhaul Could Get Delayed

Apple's smarter version of Siri that incorporates Apple Intelligence features could end up being delayed, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple is running into engineering problems and software bugs that could push back the launch of the new functionality.

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Rumors suggested that Apple planned to introduce the new ‌Siri‌ features in iOS 18.4, but the first iOS 18.4 beta is expected as soon as next week, and it appears ‌Siri‌ won't be ready in time.

Apple has already promised that ‌Apple Intelligence‌ will be available in new languages in April, suggesting that's when the iOS 18.4 update will launch, so Apple has a limited amount of time to get ‌Siri‌ ready to go. Some features may now need to be postponed until May later, with Apple perhaps planning to introduce them in an iOS 18.5 update.

Apple has promised three ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features for ‌Siri‌, including personal context to better understand and respond to requests, the ability to do more in and between apps, and on-screen awareness to respond to requests that involve content the user is looking at. Employees testing the new ‌Siri‌ features have reportedly said that they are not yet working consistently.

Major new features rarely come as late as May, because Apple typically transitions to working on the next-generation version of iOS in June after WWDC.

Gurman says that Apple could still debut the features in iOS 18.4, but turn them off by default as testing continues until iOS 18.5, and in that case, we'd still see the new functionality in iOS 18.4. We should be getting the first iOS 18.4 beta soon, though it is not likely that ‌Siri‌ will be in the initial beta given today's report.

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Top Rated Comments

stocklen Avatar
8 months ago
Whats the point of the IOSx presentation in WWDC when increasingly we have to wait 10 months until all announced features are released..... just 2 months before we start all over again.

Cant Apple just accept that if features are ready for September then its probably best to leave them for the next major release.
Score: 82 Votes (Like | Disagree)
miq Avatar
8 months ago
Lmao
Apple Intelligence becoming a bigger and bigger joke by the day
Score: 62 Votes (Like | Disagree)
bigheaddoug Avatar
8 months ago
Me: “Siri, what is the deal with this delay?”
Siri: “The capital of Virginia is Japan.”
Score: 53 Votes (Like | Disagree)
outlawarth Avatar
8 months ago
When you’re couple of years behind the competition what’s another month or two.

What bothers me is Apple’s dishonest marketing. Unless being able to generate an image of a frog with hat playing a guitar is what they had in mind when they said Apple Intelligence is here.
Score: 52 Votes (Like | Disagree)
JosephAW Avatar
8 months ago
Eventually pushed to iOS 19 and require an iPhone 17 Pro Max to get all the new features. o_O
Score: 34 Votes (Like | Disagree)
abatabia Avatar
8 months ago
At this point I say push it to iOS 19
Score: 34 Votes (Like | Disagree)