Siri Is Having a Bad 2025: Why Promising Too Much Is Hurting Apple

Tech products get delayed all the time, but Apple's recent acknowledgment that the next generation of Siri is delayed -- with no timeline beyond "in the coming year" -- is uncharacteristic for the typically secretive company. Even more unusual is that the problem isn't just with Future Siri. The current version of Apple's assistant seems to be regressing. According to a Reddit thread (and reported by Daring Fireball and MacRumors), asking Siri "What month is it?" results in "I don't understand." I got the same response using both Siri under iOS 18.3.2 and the new, glowing Apple Intelligence-powered Siri in the latest iOS 18.4 beta. Siri with Apple Intelligence (left) and without (right) can't answer the simple question of which month it is. Screenshot by Jeff Carlson/CNET Parsing a basic question like that doesn't seem to be a heavy request. Perhaps it never came up because it's the kind of question only someone waking from a coma or being rescued from a deserted island would ask. S ... Read full article.