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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman last year reported that Apple was planning a "more conversational" version of Siri for iOS 19.4, powered by "more advanced large language models." However, in his Power On newsletter today, he said that development of this more ChatGPT-like Siri is now running behind schedule within the company.

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Gurman said Apple is no longer planning to unveil the more conversational Siri at WWDC 2025 in June this year, and it appears that the feature is no longer on track to launch as part of iOS 19.4 in March or April next year. Instead, he said that some Apple software engineers believe that the Siri overhaul will not launch until at least iOS 20.

This is yet another sign that Apple remains behind OpenAI in the generative AI space.

Gurman still expects iOS 19 to include some changes to Siri's underlying architecture that will allow it to handle more advanced queries.

In the meantime, iOS 18.2 added ChatGPT integration to Siri, and Google Gemini integration should follow in a later software update. And with iOS 18.5, which should be released in May, Siri is expected to gain on-screen awareness, understanding of personal context, and deeper per-app controls. Those features were initially expected to arrive with iOS 18.4, which further underscores Apple's internal delays in this area.

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switz
20 months ago
If one lowers their expectations to ZERO, then they are never disappointed. That is becoming a mindset for many Apple users.....
Score: 44 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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ajcadoo
20 months ago
The Siri team is a joke. It should not take nearly two decades to replace this abomination
Score: 43 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Pitogyro
20 months ago
Their idea of the future was “spatial” computing. The whole AI thing caught them asleep at the wheel. It’s an embarrassment to watch.
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IIGS User
20 months ago
Apple is becoming the Sears of the 21st century quicker than I thought.

Too large and bloated to be agile enough to adapt to changing market conditions. Full of cash and hubris. Heck, they even launched their own credit card (like Sears did with discover).

It’s only a matter of time before Apple’s decline starts. It may be 5 years, it may be 10, but baring any serious changes in management things don’t get better before they get worse. And it will get worse.
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TechnoTiger3000
20 months ago
We only asked for a Siri that would work like in the 2011 ads, so they put all their effort into stupid AI **** that doesn’t work and no one asked for. Now we need to wait another two years for them to ‘Apple Maps’-gaslight us in to believing their way is better?

Do they even use their products up there?

The moment OpenAI releases a phone, I’m Microsoft-ing this company out of my life. Done.
Score: 26 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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CarAnalogy
20 months ago

I feel like it’s unfair to compare this upcoming Siri to openAI’s offerings, since presumably llm Siri will be running on device. OpenAI doesn’t offer anything local or that can be used offline. Very different beasts.
The real issue is, people have been begging Apple to do something about Siri for literally a decade. And they, worse than putting their heads in the sand and ignoring it, boldly kept telling us Siri is great.

And even still they can't deliver a simply reliable Siri that even resembles what they have been telling us it is since 2011.

It's Apple themselves that set the standard they are now being criticized by.

Nobody even asked Apple to compete with ChatGPT. They just wanted a Siri that's not awful. And it seems one way or another Apple just can't get that out the door.

All I want from Siri is to be able to use the information I've been giving Apple this entire time to do things on my own device. What they said would be coming to Siri sometime in iOS 18 sounds fine to me. But they can't even seem to manage that.

Again, I realize this is not easy. But it's Apple's own arrogance with Siri that is frustrating people.
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