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Apple confirms that Apple Intelligence Siri features are taking longer than expected

The type of question Apple promises Siri will be able to answer with Apple Intelligence. Image source: Apple

While Apple scheduled and pushed out plenty of artificial intelligence-powered features in the last several months, the next batch of improvements to Siri aren't going to arrive on time.

Like most other Big Tech companies, Apple has been making some pretty big strides in the AI space as of late. We've seen features like Genmoji, Image Playground, Writing Tools, and Visual Intelligence roll out over the past few months.

However, one feature that we were promised hasn't materialized yet — the new, more personalized Siri. Siri was allegedly supposed to adopt a set of new Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18.4, but it looks like that won't be the case.

The reason for the delay is pretty unsurprising: the new Siri features aren't up to Apple's standards.

An Apple spokesperson told Daring Fireball that the company is facing a bit of an unexpected delay, but plans to introduce the new features "in the coming year."

"Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we've made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added an integration with ChatGPT.

We've also been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps. It's going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year."

This aligns with two reports, one in mid-February and another in early March, that suggested the voice-assistant may only get minor Apple Intelligence improvements before iOS 19.

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This means features like Personal Context Understanding, In-App Actions, and Onscreen Awareness won't make an appearance until July for beta users, and September for everyone else — if they even show up then.

When Apple first boasted about the feature in ads, it showed how someone could ask Siri the name of someone they met before and it would read their calendar for the answer. Another feature would allow a user to ask about a sports team, then say "when do they play next?" and Siri would add that event to their calendar.

Siri currently remains an unfinished hybrid of its old and new features, which hasn't been going quite as well as one would hope.

36 Comments

kkqd1337 13 Years · 505 comments

The current Apple AI and image generation is just awful. Absolutely terrible I would say.

so seems like a sensible decision 

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entropys 14 Years · 4416 comments

This is what happens when you have a supply chain expert in charge of an innovative company. 

  • Want to  make good computers so make some profit to do that; vs
  • Want to make a profit so make some good computers to do that . 
A subtle difference, but turns out it is everything. It takes time to be revealed, and then it is clear to see and difficult to fix.
Tim Apple is exposed as in the second category.  

This Siri debacle is a clear example of it.  It has been poor for years, and nothing was done about it because software isn’t in the supply chain for hardware (thus low priority), and here we are.

and now Apple is so far behind it is becoming uncool. But hey, let’s get that geriatric pompous git King Charles (or more likely, an underling of his media manager) to do a playlist.  

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Scot1 8 Years · 130 comments

I’m a huge Apple fan, but Siri drives me crazy

Sorry I can’t handle multiple requests at once.. ask exactly the same request and it works. 

I tried to use image playground again. It was working before but now I get an error message saying that Siri and my iPhone must use the same language. Currently your iPhone is English Canada and Siri is set for English Canada, lol

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zinkdifferent 17 Years · 66 comments

Offering "Would you like to ask chatGPT about that?" (or words to that effect) as an option for every single request is pathetically embarrassing as an Apple 'solution' -- and then making this 'feature' only available on iPhone 15 and 16 models is just ridiculous.

I use a shortcut to essentially replace Siri with chatGPT on my iPhone 14 Pro, where it works just fine. While 'Apple Intelligence' is a nice play on the 'AI' moniker, I'm concerned that the delivery is, currently, embarrassing ... and based on how badly Apple has shepherded and mishandled Siri since the original acquisition (basically forcing the original creators out, and then letting Siri languish (*)), I have very little hope for Apple Intelligence to set itself apart.

It might be worth it for Apple leadership to revisit Steve's words...

“It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
        ― Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs: His Own Words and Wisdom


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Massiveattack87 1 Year · 106 comments

Lawsuit in 3, 2, 1...... 

Honestly.. There are tons of people who bought iPhone 16 only due to Apple Intelligence. 

Their iOS update gets worse and worse. Apple is so behind. 

I think Apple really deserves a huge lawsuit. 

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