Almost new months have passed since Tim Cook presented Apple Intelligence in the WWDC24. With this, the apple company revealed its great commitment to position itself in the vertiginous career of the Artificial Intelligence (AI)but the launch of some of the announced functions is waiting.
The AI system had to debut with iOS 18 In September 2024, But it did not arrive until October 18.1. Its deployment would continue with an improved version of Siri that understands the context and is able to take action on the user’s name in 2025, although Apple has just confirmed that several months will be delayed.
The news comes from Dary Fireballthe blog of the legendary John Gruber, a journalist specialized in Apple, who has received a statement from the firm of Cupertino where they indicate that the launch of the most intelligent and personalized version of Siri “will take more time than expected” and that they hope to display the improvements “Throughout next year”
As we can see, the American technology has avoided committing to a specific date, so we do not know at what time of 2026 the renewal of Siri will come or in which version of the operating system it will materialize. It could be in an intermediate version of iOS 19 or, if the delay lengthens, even in some version of iOS 20.
So far, we have considered the launch dates in the United States and other markets, but the situation in the European Union (EU) could be different. Without going any further, in the community block We are still waiting The arrival of Apple Intelligence in Spanish for iOS and Macos devices without installing betas.
Apple has not given details about the reasons for the delay, but in February, Mark Gurman of Bloomberg He pointed out that This project faced engineering problems and software failures. According to medium sources, internal tests showed that the functions did not respond as expected, and already pointed to a possible delay.
What has improved in Siri and what is still pending?
The Cupertino company has already improved some aspects of Siri. The assistant already understands natural language a little better, But as we pointed out in our tests still leaves enough to desire. The Integration with chatgptwhich connects with the OpenAI chatbot to offer more elaborate answers.
With the delay announced today, the deployment of context personnel is in the air until 2026. This function will allow Siri better to understand certain requests thanks to its contextual knowledge. For example, if you ask “what time does my mother’s flight arrive?”, Siri could search the messages he sent you to find the information in the corresponding message.
It is also delayed until next year APP ATENTs, a mechanism that will allow Siri control better operating system functions and applications. In this case we can ask the assistant to draw information from a flight in a travel application to share it with a contact, all using the voice.
But that’s not all. Bloomberg points out that the American firm is also working on a more conversational version of Siri. This has had its own delays. It was going to arrive in 2026, but it is likely that it does not launch until 2027. For now, Apple’s marketing material continues to promote some functions that we still can’t use.
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