Up to date 06/12/25: A new report from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg claims his sources (“folks with data of the matter”) say Apple is concentrating on the iOS 26.4 replace to carry these Siri options to customers. The x.4 updates are sometimes launched in March.
At WWDC final summer time, Apple confirmed off some superior Siri options as a part of Apple Intelligence that had been supposed to come back in an replace to iOS 18 this spring. Apple even ran TV advertisements selling iPhone 16 that showcased these options. Then, this spring, Apple delayed the discharge of these options and mentioned they might be delivered “within the coming yr.”
Now we have now affirmation that this does not imply later in 2025. The brand new Siri options received’t be part of iOS 26, or a 26.1 or 26.2 replace. As a reminder, there are three main Siri options that had been alleged to be right here by now however missed the iOS 18 deadline:
Display consciousness: Siri can learn what’s in your display screen and take correct contextual motion. When a display screen with an handle on it, asking Siri to “Add this to my contacts” will know what you’re speaking about, for instance.
Private context: Siri will use your mail, messages, internet historical past, and so forth to construct a contextual profile of you. (No information leaves your iPhone, it’s personal.) So once you ask it for information, it can provide you solutions which are particular to you and your life.
In-app actions: A large growth of “app intents” will let builders construct apps in order that Siri can carry out actions inside them. “Make this picture black and white and ship it to my spouse” ought to be capable of carry out the required actions in Photographs and Messages with out your intervention. A whole bunch of App Intents would let Siri do all kinds of issues inside each Apple’s apps and third-party apps.
In a WWDC interview with Mark Spoonauer from Tom’s Information and Lance Ulanoff from Tech Radar, Apple’s software program engineering head Craig Federighi and advertising and marketing chief Greg “Joz” Joswiak defined what occurred and what we are able to anticipate. As Federighi explains it, these introduced options had been being constructed on the “V1” Siri structure, and had been working, however not nicely sufficient. And to satisfy the standard bar, these options should be constructed upon the newer Siri “V2” structure.
Apple has these options and extra working, in-house, utilizing the brand new V2 structure however will no announce a date for once we can anticipate them till it has reached the standard degree it thinks its prospects anticipate.
When pressed by Spoonauer, who requested, “As an alternative of an precise launch date, is it okay to say 2026, or is that too broad?” Joz answered, “Yeah, that’s what we mentioned.” Federighi then went on to elucidate how the “V2” structure being utilized in a homogeneous vogue throughout all of Siri provides Apple “a lot larger high quality and significantly better functionality.”
After all, 2026 remains to be half a yr away, and we don’t know when in 2026 we are able to anticipate any of these items. Apple might launch the massive V2 Siri replace as an replace to the model 26 OSes within the spring, maybe with iOS/macOS/iPadOS 26.4 or the like. Nevertheless it might additionally are available iOS 27 within the fall of 2026, and even as an replace to that. A brand new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple is at the moment concentrating on the iOS 26.4 replace, round March, for these options. The timing might change.
Regardless of the way you have a look at it, if you need a brand new and improved Siri, you’re going to be ready some time. And also you in all probability shouldn’t anticipate Apple to announce a date or give a demo till it’s able to launch.
