Apple has confirmed that its far more intelligent, AI-powered, personalized version of Siri has been delayed.
Apple’s Personalized Siri that was Announced at WWDC 2025 has been Delayed Until 2026
If you can recall, Apple promised a smarter version of Siri at WWDC 2025. This Siri would be personal, understand context, take in-app actions, and do so much more.
This would have perfectly rounded off all the currently available Apple Intelligence features.
Sadly, in an official statement given to Daring Fireball, Apple has confirmed that its smarter Siri has been delayed:
Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added an integration with ChatGPT. We’ve also been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps. It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year.
That last line means you can expect this Siri to arrive on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac sometime in 2026. Most likely as part of iOS 19, iPadOS 19 and macOS 16.
This Siri was supposed to be a part of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS 15.4. But clearly, that did not happen.
Rumors surrounding its delay have been circling for a long time. It became fairly evident that Apple would miss its deadline, but I didn’t realize it would miss it by this much.
One report even said Apple’s LLM Siri might not even arrive with iOS 19 and has been delayed until iOS 20.
I’m not going to sugarcoat this and say ‘better late than never.’ It’s disappointing, given how much work Apple has put into AI and machine learning in the past few years, and yet these sorts of things are happening.
With such delays, expectations from users will become sky-high. At this point, the next Siri needs to crush ChatGPT, Gemini, and everything else in every single thing imaginable. If it’s only good for setting timers only, no one wants it.
