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Apple Delays Major iOS 19 Feature Announcement

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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman last year reported that Apple was planning a "more conversational" version of Siri for iOS 19.4, powered by "more advanced large language models." However, in his Power On newsletter today, he said that development of this more ChatGPT-like Siri is now running behind schedule within the company.

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Gurman said Apple is no longer planning to unveil the more conversational Siri at WWDC 2025 in June this year, and it appears that the feature is no longer on track to launch as part of iOS 19.4 in March or April next year. Instead, he said that some Apple software engineers believe that the Siri overhaul will not launch until at least iOS 20.

This is yet another sign that Apple remains behind OpenAI in the generative AI space.

Gurman still expects iOS 19 to include some changes to Siri's underlying architecture that will allow it to handle more advanced queries.

In the meantime, iOS 18.2 added ChatGPT integration to Siri, and Google Gemini integration should follow in a later software update. And with iOS 18.5, which should be released in May, Siri is expected to gain on-screen awareness, understanding of personal context, and deeper per-app controls. Those features were initially expected to arrive with iOS 18.4, which further underscores Apple's internal delays in this area.

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We only asked for a Siri that would work like in the 2011 ads, so they put all their effort into stupid AI **** that doesn’t work and no one asked for. Now we need to wait another two years for them to ‘Apple Maps’-gaslight us in to believing their way is better?

Do they even use their products up there?

The moment OpenAI releases a phone, I’m Microsoft-ing this company out of my life. Done.
 
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Stiille said:
Better later and better than the other companies :)
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That’s absolutely hilarious. ChatGPT Advanced Voice is so far beyond anything Siri ever has been or ever will become.

It honestly makes Siri seem like it’s the exact same thing it has been since it launched in 2011 which is basically what Siri is. Siri is almost entirely useless. The only things you can ask are extremely simplistic tasks and hope it hears you right. ‘What’s the temperature’ ‘set a timer for X’ ‘do I have any messages?’ ‘Send a message to Y’ which it then misunderstands you 85% of the time.

This report is even MORE comical because by the time iOS 20 releases in Fall 2026, OpenAI’s Advanced Voice mode will be near-human level entirely, and it’s knowledge will be so vastly beyond Siri’s it’s incredible. It already is so vastly beyond Siri it’s incredible, and it will only get farther and farther ahead. Moreover, all the major AI companies will also be miles and miles ahead of anything Siri will ever become. xAI’s voice mode in Grok 3 is very good now too. Anthropic will be doing more with voice too and Amazon is using Anthropic for their new Alexa which is launching within the next several months. The new Alexa with use of Claude will make Siri utterly pathetic in terms of actionable requests too, because while OpenAI’s voice mode won’t be passed, the new Alexa using Claude will be extremely close and right on par with it, and with Alexa with all the devices integration, Alexa will be able to take tons of actions for the user.
 
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TechnoTiger3000 said:
We only asked for a Siri that worked like in the 2011 ads, so they put all their effort into stupid AI **** that doesn’t work and no one asked for. Now we need to wait another two years for them to ‘Apple Maps’-gaslight us in to believing their way is better?

Do they even use their products up there?

The moment OpenAI releases a phone, I’m Microsoft-ing this company out of my life. Done.
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Yeah I honestly think if OpenAI starts releasing hardware it could get real bad for Apple real fast. OpenAI will have AGI-level AI by late 2027 and if they had hardware on par I don’t see how anyone wouldn’t just switch. Yes the ecosystem is hard to move from, but OpenAI will literally have AGI developing its own software for devices in a few years.

Instead of iOS by humans every year, it will be software by humans + AGI every 1-2 months.
 
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Apple is becoming the Sears of the 21st century quicker than I thought.

Too large and bloated to be agile enough to adapt to changing market conditions. Full of cash and hubris. Heck, they even launched their own credit card (like Sears did with discover).

It’s only a matter of time before Apple’s decline starts. It may be 5 years, it may be 10, but baring any serious changes in management things don’t get better before they get worse. And it will get worse.
 
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This likely was due to quality LLM needing a lot more memory than what would have been available in an iPhone. 16GB is bare minimum but really need 100+GB, which isn’t going to happen anytime soon.
 
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I feel like it’s unfair to compare this upcoming Siri to openAI’s offerings, since presumably llm Siri will be running on device. OpenAI doesn’t offer anything local or that can be used offline. Very different beasts.
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You understand that on-device is code for ‘absolute garbage’. Yes, it has more privacy but it is simply too bad to bother being used.

OpenAI will literally have AGI voice in a few years and it will be something so absolutely nuts to behold no one would dream of using on-device. It will literally be indistinguishable from talking to another human, aside from the fact that it knows almost everything.
 
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DomDomonom said:
I feel like it’s unfair to compare this upcoming Siri to openAI’s offerings, since presumably llm Siri will be running on device. OpenAI doesn’t offer anything local or that can be used offline. Very different beasts.
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The real issue is, people have been begging Apple to do something about Siri for literally a decade. And they, worse than putting their heads in the sand and ignoring it, boldly kept telling us Siri is great.

And even still they can't deliver a simply reliable Siri that even resembles what they have been telling us it is since 2011.

It's Apple themselves that set the standard they are now being criticized by.

Nobody even asked Apple to compete with ChatGPT. They just wanted a Siri that's not awful. And it seems one way or another Apple just can't get that out the door.

All I want from Siri is to be able to use the information I've been giving Apple this entire time to do things on my own device. What they said would be coming to Siri sometime in iOS 18 sounds fine to me. But they can't even seem to manage that.

Again, I realize this is not easy. But it's Apple's own arrogance with Siri that is frustrating people.
 
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