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Stay Patient, Apple Fans: Siri AI Delayed Again to Late 2026 at the Earliest
Apple delays Siri's AI upgrade due to reliability issues, spreading features across iOS 26.4, 26.5, and 27 updates, Bloomberg reports.
- Apple is delaying the rollout of its upgraded Siri, spreading planned upgrades across iOS 26.4, iOS 26.5 and iOS 27 instead of shipping them all in one release.
- Apple engineers discovered performance and accuracy issues as internal testers found Siri sometimes fails queries, responds slowly, and falls back to ChatGPT instead of Google's Gemini, prompting rollout delays.
- Image generation and web search summarization were tested in iOS 26.4 betas using Image Playground and web summaries, while a personalization preview accessing texts and emails is likely to slip.
- Apple engineers were directed to shift testing to iOS 26.5 while Apple executives face a "fluid" situation; earlier today, Apple released iOS 26.3 with bug fixes.
- Repeated schedule slips since the Apple Intelligence announcement in 2024 mean features may arrive across multiple updates, with iOS 27 set to treat Siri more like a chatbot in the fall.
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Apple again delayed the launch of the new Siri features that were planned for iOS 26.4. The decision responds to problems detected in internal tests, according to journalist Mark Gurman of Bloomberg. Cupertino's company planned to present the first renewed capabilities of the assistant in the second half of February. The plan envisaged releasing them between March and April along with iOS 26.4. However, technical drawbacks forced to modify the c…
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Apple's Siri relaunch is reportedly behind schedule
Apple’s long-delayed AI-powered Siri redesign may not be rolling out this year, at least in the way the company had planned. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple found problems with its software upon testing, such as the virtual assistant taking too long to accomplish tasks or even not processing queries properly altogether. Siri’s new version was also reportedly so sluggish during testing that its developers believed Apple would have to …
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