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Siri's Big AI Upgrade Is Coming, but Reportedly Not Until Spring 2026
- Apple executives Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak explained on Tuesday that the promised Siri upgrade has been delayed due to quality standards.
- The delay follows Apple’s 2024 WWDC reveal of an upgraded Siri with contextual awareness and app actions, but internal tests showed reliability issues.
- Apple reassigned the leadership of Siri, moving oversight away from AI head John Giannandrea and placing it under Mike Rockwell amid internal challenges and growing competition in the AI voice assistant market.
- At WWDC 2025, Siri was mentioned only a handful of times, a sharp decline from the 54 mentions during the previous year's event, while Apple’s stock closed Tuesday at $202.67, marking a 0.61% increase.
- Apple confirmed Siri’s new features will arrive in 2026, emphasizing they prefer to delay rather than release unreliable software that disappoints users.
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The release of the new version of Siri is delayed until the fall of 2026, when Apple intends to incorporate it as part of an update of iOS 26.4 software, which will allow the voice assistant to access personal data and users' on-screen activities to improve the response to their queries.The company presented this new version of Siri along with Apple Intelligence at the WWDC in 2024, and this March announced that it was delaying the release of it…
We might have to wait until March 2026 for Siri's AI upgrade
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple now plans to debut its AI-powered upgrade for Siri as part of iOS 26.4. Looking back at the previous two iOS generations, iOS 18.4 arrived on March 31, 2025, while iOS 17.4 rolled out on March 5, 2024. Therefore, we can safely assume iOS 26.4 will launch around March 2026. Apple's Siri upgrade is still MIA Siri in iOS 17. Image source: José Adorno for BGR The new Siri experience was initially set to la…
Apple’s upgraded Siri might not arrive until next spring
Apple is aiming to launch the upgraded Siri that it originally previewed at WWDC 2024 in spring 2026 with iOS 26.4, according to Bloomberg. At WWDC last year, Apple showed off how Siri would be able to do things like understand your personal context or take actions based on what’s on your screen. But in March, Apple delayed these features, saying in a statement that “it’s going to take us longer than we thought” to deliver them. That statement v…
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