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Eager to try out those AI-powered Siri features Apple announced last year? Sorry, you will have to wait until next year.
As Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the development, Apple is now targeting a spring 2026 release for some long-delayed Siri AI features. That includes Siri's ability to tap into users' personal context and take actions based on what's displayed on screen.
In a demo at WWDC 24, an Apple executive asked Siri for their mom's flight details. Siri scanned an email from their mom to find the flight information and then checked the live status online before providing a response.
(Credit: Apple/YouTube)This version of an advanced Siri was supposed to arrive with iOS 18. However, in March, Apple said, "It's going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features, and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year." While "coming year" might have suggested 2025, Apple clarified earlier this week that it meant 2026.
Bloomberg now reports that the update will arrive with iOS 26.4. Historically, the ".4" update for iOS has arrived in March, and the same can be expected of iOS 26. The exact date is yet to be decided, but internally, Apple isn't expecting a date beyond spring, sources tell Bloomberg.
For the delay, Apple has blamed Siri's underlying V1 architecture. The team working on Siri found "that the limitations of the V1 architecture weren't getting us to the quality level that we knew our customers needed and expected," said Craig Federighi, Apple's software boss, in an interview following WWDC 2025.
Once the company realized the issues, it moved to V2. Federighi called it a "deeper end-to-end architecture that we knew was ultimately what we what we wanted to create to get to the full set of capabilities that we wanted for Siri." An earlier report also suggested that things started falling apart when Apple tried to integrate old Siri code with new.
The wait for a supercharged Siri continues. In the meantime, Apple must also deal with the lawsuits that stemmed from its inability to release these features on time.