New Delhi: During the WWDC 2025, Apple has confirmed that its advanced AI-powered Siri features will not launch until 2026. Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Craig Fedeighi, and SVP of Global Marketing, Greg Joswiak, elaborated on the dates in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. In a separate conversation with Tom’s Guide, Joswiak clarified that the next-generation Siri features are now expected to roll out next year.
The delayed features, which include on-screen awareness, personal context understanding, and the ability to perform in-app actions, were originally introduced at WWDC 2024. Apple initially planned to ship them with iOS 18.4, but the update arrived in April without them. Apple CEO Tim Cook has previously acknowledged the delay during an earnings call, stating that while progress was being made, the features required more time to meet Apple’s standards.
Federighi stated that the new Siri experience did not meet the quality standards users required, noting that they expected it to be highly reliable. Users were unable to achieve reliability within the given time frame.
Joswiak echoed this reasoning: users don’t want to disappoint customers. However, it would have been more disappointing to ship something that did not meet our quality standards; that is unacceptable. So, users made what they thought was the best decision.
Addressing the broader border challenge of AI-based automation, Federighi noted that when it comes to automating automation capabilities on devices reliably, no one is currently doing it well. While Apple has achieved auspicious early results and is working on initial versions. The team ultimately concluded that this does not work reliably enough to be an Apple product. Apple has previously said that Siri updates would arrive in the coming year. Joswiak has now clarified that this timeline points to a 2026 release.
