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Apple Intelligence Siri Overhaul Could Get Delayed

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Apple's smarter version of Siri that incorporates Apple Intelligence features could end up being delayed, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple is running into engineering problems and software bugs that could push back the launch of the new functionality.

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Rumors suggested that Apple planned to introduce the new Siri features in iOS 18.4, but the first iOS 18.4 beta is expected as soon as next week, and it appears Siri won't be ready in time.

Apple has already promised that Apple Intelligence will be available in new languages in April, suggesting that's when the iOS 18.4 update will launch, so Apple has a limited amount of time to get Siri ready to go. Some features may now need to be postponed until May later, with Apple perhaps planning to introduce them in an iOS 18.5 update.

Apple has promised three Apple Intelligence features for Siri, including personal context to better understand and respond to requests, the ability to do more in and between apps, and on-screen awareness to respond to requests that involve content the user is looking at. Employees testing the new Siri features have reportedly said that they are not yet working consistently.

Major new features rarely come as late as May, because Apple typically transitions to working on the next-generation version of iOS in June after WWDC.

Gurman says that Apple could still debut the features in iOS 18.4, but turn them off by default as testing continues until iOS 18.5, and in that case, we'd still see the new functionality in iOS 18.4. We should be getting the first iOS 18.4 beta soon, though it is not likely that Siri will be in the initial beta given today's report.

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Whats the point of the IOSx presentation in WWDC when increasingly we have to wait 10 months until all announced features are released..... just 2 months before we start all over again.

Cant Apple just accept that if features are ready for September then its probably best to leave them for the next major release.
 
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I prefer new languages before anything else.

Because let's keep in mind, no matter what Apple Intelligence features they add to Siri, as long as it's not based on an LLM, it will remain bad.

As for engineering problems, I was flabbergasted by the demo where it would cross your contact infos, calenda events, map, trafic, email, all together to do an action. It must be an immense challenge to overcome.
 
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stocklen said:
Whats the point of the IOSx presentation in WWDC when increasingly we have to wait 10 months until all announced features are released..... just 2 months before we start all over again.
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Corporate inertia - it's how they've always done it (well for the last ~ 20 years anyway), so they feel they have to keep doing it that way.

Also, devs do need the lead time... although maybe not as much as it ends up actually taking. :p
 
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Westside guy said:
Corporate inertia - it's how they've always done it (well for the last ~ 20 years anyway), so they feel they have to keep doing it that way.

Also, devs do need the lead time... although maybe not as much as it ends up actually taking. :p
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I wish developers would get more time in general, not just at Apple. Seems everyone rushes unfinished, buggy software to market. If you rush software dev or pay peanuts, you get crap or delayed launches. Plan it properly from the start. Remember when we did that?
 
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Anyone else find it ironic that the iPhone 16 Pro's biggest selling point this year was being 'built from the ground up' for Apple Intelligence, and we're now 1/3 of the way through the products lifecycle with just news of delays. Just me?

Maybe the iPhone 17 Pro will be the year of Apple Intelligence, we can just re-use all the marketing material.
 
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Johnny907 said:
No one cares about Ai anyway so not a huge loss.
I just wish Apple would move on so we have something else a little more substantial to talk about.
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Not so.

Nobody cares too much about the elements that have so far made up Apple Intelligence...

.... after all hoe often do people genuinely use image playground and Genmoji once the novelty has worn off.

However... a significantly upgraded Siri experience is of far more value and day to day usefulness to many. A shame that the only self bit is the part we have had to wait 10 months for - assuming it wont delayed until iOS19
 
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