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 deliver these Siri options to customers. The x.4 updates are usually 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’d be delivered “within the coming 12 months.”
Now now we have 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 imagined to be right here by now however missed the iOS 18 deadline:
Display screen consciousness: Siri can learn what’s in your display screen and take correct contextual motion. When taking a look at a display screen with an tackle 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, net historical past, and so on to construct a contextual profile of you. (No knowledge leaves your iPhone, it’s non-public.) So while you ask it for information, it may give you solutions which are particular to you and your life.
In-app actions: A large enlargement 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 have the ability to carry out the mandatory actions in Images and Messages with out your intervention. Lots of of App Intents would let Siri do all types 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 will anticipate. As Federighi explains it, these introduced options had been being constructed on the “V1” Siri structure, and had been working, however not properly sufficient. And to fulfill 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 clients 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 style throughout all of Siri provides Apple “a lot greater high quality and a lot better functionality.”
After all, 2026 remains to be half a 12 months away, and we don’t know when in 2026 we will anticipate any of these things. 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. But it surely might additionally are available in 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.
Irrespective of the way you have a look at it, in order for you 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.
