Siri's AI evolution to fully unfold by spring 2026

Apple is in the process of overhauling Siri to catch up to AI engines like ChatGPT, but the revamp will emerge in stages across 2025 and into 2026.

The company has already introduced some minor changes to Siri, including the option to type commands, a revamped interface, and an improved ability to deal with pauses when users speak. Apple will also roll out a better interaction between Siri and apps, and better integration with personal data starting in iOS 18.4, expected in the spring of 2025.

One of the big changes users will notice that is coming soon is integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT. However, Bloomberg reports that this is more of a "band-aid" to give Siri a more AI feel while the company works on its own generative AI integration.

Apple's plans for its new Siri engine is likely to be unveiled at WWDC in June of 2025, and would likely be delivered to users in the spring of 2026 with iOS 19.4. This is expected to be the true complete revamp of Siri that integrates all the incremental changes into a unified whole.

Users will perceive the changes as more of a series of updates and improvements across the course of the next 18 months. The bigger vision within Apple, however, is a new foundation for Siri that relies less on outside help to answer user queries and commands.

5 Comments

appleinsideruser 658 comments · 5 Years

About 2 weeks ago

Siri changes go unnoticed — like the infamous frog in a saucepan gently coming to the boil

. Surely it’d make a better impression if the new animation actually signalled new functionality. By the time Siri is useful, we’ll have lost the will to wait with this drip drip slow evolution.

chasm 3603 comments · 10 Years

FWIW, Siri presently does nearly everything I want it to do. It answers my simple questions about weather and currency conversion accurately, it plays the music I ask it to, it identifies songs I'm hearing that I don't know the title/artist, and it adds reminders or calendar items to my calendar when I ask it to. This is not to imply that it couldn't get better or that it doesn't meet other users' expectations, but it does the limited things I want it to do.

What the article is saying is that Apple is having to rebuild it from scratch because of AI advancements elsewhere that they are behind on. Doing that is a lot easier when the product isn't a live service, so it's going to roll out in stages over the next year or so.

I'd like to see Apple make this more obvious by offering a "Siri update" like they do with system updates. Instead of users having to guess when Siri can handle <task it can't currently handle>, Apple could detail Siri's evolution as part of its detail on system upgrades, so users would know what kinds of new questions they can ask.

DAalseth 3050 comments · 6 Years

chasm said:

FWIW, Siri presently does nearly everything I want it to do. It answers my simple questions about weather and currency conversion accurately, it plays the music I ask it to, it identifies songs I'm hearing that I don't know the title/artist, and it adds reminders or calendar items to my calendar when I ask it to. This is not to imply that it couldn't get better or that it doesn't meet other users' expectations, but it does the limited things I want it to do.

Same here. I use Siri a lot, from setting timers, to dictation, to when is the ball game, to what’s the temp outside, and on and on. Siri works great for me as it is. I suppose some linked queries might be useful, but it will be a while before I use that.

michelb76 698 comments · 8 Years

About 1 week ago

appleinsideruser said:

Siri changes go unnoticed — like the infamous frog in a saucepan gently coming to the boil. Surely it’d make a better impression if the new animation actually signalled new functionality. By the time Siri is useful, we’ll have lost the will to wait with this drip drip slow evolution.

Unlikely. A good voice AI is magic and part of the promise of what computing was supposed to be. There isn't a single voice AI that is actually good. OpenAI has a good voice experience but can still make up stuff and it can't integrate with the OS.