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Siri's Biggest Upgrade Won't Arrive Until iOS 19
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Yes. I assigned an action button for ChatGPT and it works great with my native language - Czech. I asked Gemini: why SIRI or Apple intelligence doesn't know my native language and the answer was: because Apple has not tested Language Models much and has little data - probably it's related to privacy
Watch, It’ll require a new iPhone 17 device. 
Well, it can be quite useful and time saving as it works. But Siri hasn’t evolved and it’s still not up being able to do what the commercials from Apple thirteen!!! years ago said it would. I really wonder what’s behind this total disaster. I mean… this isn’t the first time people complain about Siri. A total embarrassment for a company worth in the trillions.
At this point I’m getting tired of seeing my friends and family all create killer images with Gemini and heck, even Grok (ugh). Apple is woefully behind and it’s not great when I start to envy the competition I’ve avoided for a decade. Get your bleep together, Apple. Siri sucks, always has.
They bought Siri as a "finished" product (at that time) but everyone that initially built Siri has left Apple since. My speculation is that they just didn't (don't?) have skilled developers from that field at Apple
In thirteen+ years they still haven’t it seems. I’m wondering what the total number of their software engineers are because it also seems that they can only focus on one software release at a time and in the meantime neglecting their other software offerings.
If you use an iPad Pro with an external USB hub, iOS 18 breaks that. Is that the kind of reason you were(n't) looking for?
Sigh...
And they will not be first. - Apple in the 2020sApple may not be first...?
Agree. iOS / iPadOS / Apple Services should work seamlessly with Windows
It's been well over 10 years. How much time do they need?
The biggest business flub in AI is IBM Watson. It literally pioneered AI, then lost the entire market.
2 to 3 more years. Apple is focused on privacy, even for their AI stuff. No one else is doing that for AI. I’ve not minded that Siri is stupid, because my questions don’t go to random advertisers as they do with Google & Amazon. I rarely talk to Siri anyway. I have touch activation on all my devices. Rarely I’ll ask Siri what the temperature is in my bedroom, or I’ll set a single timer. It does very few things well. If you want to converse with your hardware, other people do that better, but they don’t give a 💩 about your privacy. 😉
I can't wait for the AI bubble to burst, and all the LLMs and diffusions models and whatnot fall back to being just another piece of technology suitable for specific purposes, and no the be all and end all of personal computing. It will be great when it's just another piece of tech behind better tools to power human creativity and endeavour, and not be some trinket to generate super derivative images and inaccurate text.
I remember trying speech recognition software in the 90s, and how stupid it felt talking to my computer. When Siri launched, it was the same. More powerful, but after a few jokey questions, anything I could ask Siri to do was easier to just do myself. I would rather just do a thing myself than have to tell my devices to do it.
So, when the more conversational Siri launches, I'll type a few jokey questions, and then go back to using my devices like normal.
I remember trying speech recognition software in the 90s, and how stupid it felt talking to my computer. When Siri launched, it was the same. More powerful, but after a few jokey questions, anything I could ask Siri to do was easier to just do myself. I would rather just do a thing myself than have to tell my devices to do it.
So, when the more conversational Siri launches, I'll type a few jokey questions, and then go back to using my devices like normal.
ChatGPT Advanced Voice is currently light years beyond Siri. By the time this alleged enhanced Siri comes out, ChatGPT Advanced Voice will be in a whole other universe compared to Siri or whatever Siri enhancements they add.
It’s over for Siri, if OpenAI made a phone id be gone and I’m a longtime iPhone user.
It’s over for Siri, if OpenAI made a phone id be gone and I’m a longtime iPhone user.
The biggest reason why it won’t arrive till at least iOS 19: all this is going to be done ON DEVICE, not rely on the cloud at all.
Gemini Live is relying on Cloud AI, which is not privacy friendly to some extent. Having the thing done on device maximizes the privacy and continues the commitment to privacy for Apple.
Unfortunately problem is neural engine for on device conversational AI is not powerful enough for current Apple Silicon chips. A19 chip will be first one to be truly designed for AI and for advanced computational computing on mobile device. (M3 and M4 is ready for on device conversational AI)
Will we FINALLY have Siri evolve, using A.i. to
iOS 18.4 is expected to be released in April with several new Apple Intelligence enhancements for Siri, including on-screen awareness, deeper per-app controls, and better understanding of a user's personal context. However, an even bigger upgrade planned for Siri is still more than a year away, according to a recent report.
A few months ago, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said iOS 19 will introduce a "more conversational" version of Siri powered by "more advanced large language models." He said this upgrade will make Siri more like ChatGPT, allowing the assistant to "handle more sophisticated requests" and better respond to "back-and-forth conversations."
Apple will likely preview the more conversational version of Siri when it announces iOS 19 at WWDC 2025 in June, but Gurman said it will not be available until as early as spring 2026. That suggests the feature will be released as part of an iOS 19.4 update, which is likely to be released in March or April next year.
Siri was already inferior to competing voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant, and the rise of chatbots like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini set Siri even further behind. With the enhancements coming between the iOS 18.4 and iOS 19.4 updates, Siri should finally see some meaningful improvements.
The revamped Siri will require an iPhone 15 Pro or newer due to Apple Intelligence compatibility.
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Images lol.
try using more powerful and very specific prompts beyond using just images and you'll find at any code Chatgpt is much much more powerful than Gemini.
Google's insistance of being a monopoly on Android and no view in sight that any of their partners can or WILL come up with their OWN LLM for mobile or allow the END USER to choose their own an fully uninstall Gemini (not simply disable it) has me looking to find a quality used Apple 13 mini again and wait for the iPhone 17 Pro.
I've already seen Gemini (before Gemini Pro) back in November already get re-enabled due to either Samsung Security Patch update -OR- most likely Google Play Services update back in November 2024 on my S23 that did the following:
1. Re-Enable Google Gemini - which ONLY supports their OWN apps and services [I only use Maps]
2. Re-Enable Google Contact Sync within my Samsung Contacts app! I don't even HAVE nor EVER HAD Google Contacts installed! To me this is a SERIOUS breach of privacy - NO OS should ever circumvent explicit instructions from the end user to DISABLE a feature/function.
I consistently triple check my settings bi-weekly, well because I work in tech and I've previously resisted Android for 16yrs!
Samsung's Bixby may get Samsung's Gauss LLM but I highly doubt that: they've arleady sold their soul and a few 1st borns of the Galaxy Z lineup and 1st party apps to Google.
Asus ROG 9 Phone Pro ... potentially as it doesn't follow the typical boring repeated 'a.i.' on every other Android phone.
So ... unless Apple Tech Support can ACTUALLY respect and HELP me fix my 2FA # [NOT RESET My PW which is KNOWN and WORKS] to get access to my iCloud account to reset my locked iPhone 4S that has critical emotional sentimental messages from my recently deceased Mother ... I may return.
I bet it still won’t be able to find my favorite coffee shop in 2026, I’ve tried hundreds of times over the last year, it’s never found it even once. Tried the Google app and it found it immediately the first try, and also opened up Google maps and started routing me to the coffee shop. I don’t know why Googles software is so far ahead of Apple, feels like Apple is 5 years behind.