Up to date 06/12/25: A new report from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg claims his sources (“individuals with data of the matter”) say Apple is focusing 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 season, Apple confirmed off some superior Siri options as a part of Apple Intelligence that have 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 stated they’d be delivered “within the coming 12 months.”
Now we’ve got 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 have been presupposed 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 taking a look at a display screen with an deal with 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 on to construct a contextual profile of you. (No information leaves your iPhone, it’s non-public.) So once you ask it for information, it can provide you solutions which can be 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 Pictures and Messages with out your intervention. A whole lot 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 are able to anticipate. As Federighi explains it, these introduced options have been being constructed on the “V1” Siri structure, and have been working, however not effectively 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 after we can anticipate them till it has reached the standard degree it thinks its clients anticipate.
When pressed by Spoonauer, who requested, “As a substitute of an precise launch date, is it okay to say 2026, or is that too broad?” Joz answered, “Yeah, that’s what we stated.” Federighi then went on to clarify how the “V2” structure being utilized in a homogeneous vogue throughout all of Siri provides Apple “a lot increased high quality and significantly better functionality.”
In fact, 2026 remains to be half a 12 months away, and we don’t know when in 2026 we are able to anticipate any of these things. Apple might launch the large V2 Siri replace as an replace to the model 26 OSes within the spring, maybe with iOS/macOS/iPadOS 26.4 or the like. However it 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 focusing on the iOS 26.4 replace, round March, for these options. The timing might change.
Irrespective of the way you take a look at it, if you’d like a brand new and improved Siri, you’re going to be ready some time. And also you most likely shouldn’t anticipate Apple to announce a date or give a demo till it’s able to launch.
