Siri, as we know it, continues to fulfill its function, but it takes time without experiencing an important evolutionary leap. The advance of generative artificial intelligence in recent years has changed the panorama: it has taught us what is possible and has raised the bar. Many users have started waiting for something else. A more fluid Siri, more intuitive.
That idea began to take shape at the WWDC of 2024, when Apple presented Apple Intelligence. Among its many functions, one stood out: a new redesign Siri, capable of understanding our consultations based not only on what we say, but also on what happens on the screen and the use we make of the iPhone. A Siri who, finally, was going to make the leap.
A pending jump. In March, Apple itself acknowledged that these functions would not be ready until 2026. And at the Developer Conference held this week, there were no news. In a later interview, Craig Federight explained that, although they had a functional version, they decided not to launch it because it did not reach the level of reliability that Apple considers acceptable:
“It would have been more disappointing to launch something that did not meet our quality standard. We made the decision we believed better. And I would take it again.”
New window on the horizon: Spring of 2026. Although there is no official communication, Bloomberg has published that Apple has marked the spring of 2026 as an internal objective. According to the sources consulted by Mark Gurman, the company plans to launch the new Siri along with iOS 26.4, an update that normally arrives in March. It is the same launch window that has been used in previous years with iOS 17.4 and iOS 18.4.
That calendar, however, is far from being closed. The sources insist that everything will depend on how development evolves in the coming weeks. If the advance is solid, it is not ruled out that Apple shows a preliminary version next to the new iPhone this fall. But, today, there are no definitive decisions.
Technical challenges. The new Siri is not only an update. Internally, the change has been deep. According to the American media, one of the greatest challenges was the coexistence between two architectures: the classic Siri system, which continues to manage basic tasks such as timers, and the new AI engine that should take care of the most advanced functions.
The redesign brought changes in the organization chart. John Giannandrea, until now responsible for Siri, lost control of consumer products. The project was in the hands of Mike Rockwell, creator of Vision Pro, and Craig Federight. Rockwell currently leads the development of Siri LLM, the internal system that will support the new functions.
Apple’s strategy. In this week’s presentation, Apple opted to show Liquid Glass and functional improvements in its operating systems. There were news in iOS, iPados and Macos, and also in AI: Language models open developers, detection of spam calls, but nothing of the new Siri.
At the moment, the only thing that is known with certainty is that there will be no new Siri in 2025. And that, if everything goes well, we could see it in spring of 2026.
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