Siri may not be getting as immediate a turnaround/update as expected.
Per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple apparently won’t be incorporating some or all of the new Siri features until iOS 26.5 or iOS 27.
At the time, Apple engineers were apparently using iOS 26.5 for internal Siri testing, and the employees said the update included all of the Apple Intelligence Siri features that Apple promised back at WWDC 2024, but there are no signs of those additions to Siri now that the beta is available to developers.
It’s possible that the Siri features that have been mentioned could surface in a later beta of iOS 26.5, although that seems less likely as June and the iOS 27 WWDC debut edge closer.
Last week, Gurman stated that iOS 27 would feature a standalone Siri chatbot app that incorporated all of the Apple Intelligence Siri features. This caps off a long series of delays in which Apple introduced Apple Intelligence in June 2024, and stated that the feature set would launch in an update to iOS 26 coming in 2025. When last spring rolled around, Apple announced another delay and said Siri needed more time. This has only been met with further delays, and Apple has offered no set data as to when the revamped version of Siri would launch or if it would be this year.
The current word on the street is that Siri will be demonstrated as a chatbot at this year’s WWDC, and will offer a feature set that will put the personal assistant on par with Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI chatbots.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
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