In just a few short months, we should hopefully get our first look at an all new AI-infused Siri. After unveiling it over a year and a half ago, Apple’s vision for an all new Siri faced many engineering challenges – and is yet to hit users devices. That should be changing soon, though.
Siri upgrades coming soon
At WWDC 2024, Apple unveiled three key upgrades for Siri with Apple Intelligence:
Personal context: When talking to Siri, it’ll have context of the information on your device, preventing you from needing to know exactly where to find something
On screen awareness: Siri will be able to see your screen while you’re making a request, allowing you to be less descriptive
Taking action in apps: Rather than needing to open an app for every mundane action, you’ll be able to ask Siri to complete tasks for you
Initially, these new Siri upgrades were supposed to debut in iOS 18.4. However, Apple ran into technical hurdles with the Siri engineering stack, and ended up delaying it while they rewrote Siri from the ground-up on a new LLM based infrastructure.
At the moment, Apple is considering using Google Gemini to power these features, rather than on-device models. If they go forward with Gemini, it’ll utilize Private Cloud Compute, so Google still won’t get data from these queries.
Macworld’s Filipe Esposito recently reported that new Siri features are in fact on track to launch with iOS 26.4, according to uncovered Apple code.
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