During Apple’s earnings call with investors yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook provided a (vague) update on Apple’s work on the next-generation version of Siri. The Apple CEO assured investors that the company is “making good progress” on the more personalized version of Siri ahead of a launch “next year.” “We’re also excited for a more personalized Siri. We’re making good progress on it, and as we’ve shared, we expect to release it next year,” Cook said. This is essentially the same thing Cook said during Apple’s earnings last quarter, but this time he did make sure to specifically call out the “next year” timeline. The continued confirmation that the features are on track to launch next year is reassuring. After all, Apple has burned us on Siri timelines before. Cook also took the time to tout all of the AI features Apple has shipped, including new ones this year like Workout Buddy for Apple Watch: With Apple intelligence, we’ve introduced dozens of new features that are powerful, intuitive, private, and deeply integrated into the things people do every day. Features like Live Translation, which help users communicate across languages in real time, and Visual Intelligence, which opens new ways to learn about and explore the world. We also introduced Workout Buddy, a new experience that uses AI to provide personalized, motivational insights based on a user’s workout data and fitness history. And these join so many others from cleanup and photos and new image creation tools to powerful writing tools. We’re also seeing developers take advantage of our on-device foundation models to create entirely new experiences for users around the world. Cook’s comments this quarter follow a Bloomberg report which said there are already “concerns from people testing iOS 26.4” inside Apple about the performance of the next-generation Siri. As it stands now, Apple is reportedly aiming to release the new version of Siri as part of iOS 26.4. Whether or not that timeline shifts at all remains to be seen. More on Apple’s AI predicament and related color from yesterday’s earnings call can be found in our separate story on the topic. My favorite iPhone accessories: Follow Chance: Threads, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastodon.