Up to date 06/12/25: A brand new report from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg claims his sources (“individuals with information of the matter”) say Apple is concentrating on the iOS 26.4 replace to convey these Siri options to customers. The x.4 updates are usually launched in March.
At WWDC final summer season, Apple confirmed off some superior Siri options as a part of Apple Intelligence that have been supposed to come back in an replace to iOS 18 this spring. Apple even ran TV advertisements selling iPhone 16 that showcased these options. Then, this spring, Apple delayed the discharge of these options and mentioned they’d be delivered “within the coming yr.”
Now now we have affirmation that this doesn’t imply later in 2025. The brand new Siri options gained’t be part of iOS 26, or a 26.1 or 26.2 replace. As a reminder, there are three main Siri options that have been imagined to be right here by now however missed the iOS 18 deadline:
Display consciousness: Siri can learn what’s in your display screen and take correct contextual motion. When a display screen with an handle on it, asking Siri to “Add this to my contacts” will know what you’re speaking about, for instance.
Private context: Siri will use your mail, messages, internet historical past, and so on to construct a contextual profile of you. (No information leaves your iPhone, it’s personal.) So while you ask it for information, it may give you solutions which might be particular to you and your life.
In-app actions: An enormous enlargement of “app intents” will let builders construct apps in order that Siri can carry out actions inside them. “Make this picture black and white and ship it to my spouse” ought to be capable of carry out the required actions in Images and Messages with out your intervention. A whole lot of App Intents would let Siri do all kinds of issues inside each Apple’s apps and third-party apps.
In a WWDC interview with Mark Spoonauer from Tom’s Information and Lance Ulanoff from Tech Radar, Apple’s software program engineering head Craig Federighi and advertising and marketing chief Greg “Joz” Joswiak defined what occurred and what we are able to count on. As Federighi explains it, these introduced options have been being constructed on the “V1” Siri structure, and have been working, however not properly sufficient. And to fulfill the standard bar, these options have to be constructed upon the newer Siri “V2” structure.
Apple has these options and extra working, in-house, utilizing the brand new V2 structure however will no announce a date for after we can count on them till it has reached the standard degree it thinks its clients count on.
When pressed by Spoonauer, who requested, “As an alternative of an precise launch date, is it okay to say 2026, or is that too broad?” Joz answered, “Yeah, that’s what we mentioned.” Federighi then went on to elucidate how the “V2” structure being utilized in a homogeneous style throughout all of Siri offers Apple “a lot greater high quality and significantly better functionality.”
In fact, 2026 continues to be half a yr away, and we don’t know when in 2026 we are able to count on any of these things. Apple may launch the large V2 Siri replace as an replace to the model 26 OSes within the spring, maybe with iOS/macOS/iPadOS 26.4 or the like. However it may additionally are available iOS 27 within the fall of 2026, and even as an replace to that. A brand new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple is presently concentrating on the iOS 26.4 replace, round March, for these options. The timing may change.
Regardless of the way you have a look at it, in order for you a brand new and improved Siri, you’re going to be ready some time. And also you most likely shouldn’t count on Apple to announce a date or give a demo till it’s able to launch.
