Overview
- Apple executives Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak confirmed the upgraded Siri features, first previewed in iOS 18, will now arrive in iOS 26.4 next spring.
- Internal release targets have shifted repeatedly—from fall 2024 and early 2025 to now spring 2026—as Apple addresses quality concerns.
- A Bloomberg report reveals that a faulty hybrid architecture caused about one-third of Siri operations to fail, prompting a ground-up rebuild of its machine-learning core.
- Apple has faced criticism and class-action lawsuits for promising features that missed their deadlines, and it has reassigned the project to Craig Federighi and Mike Rockwell after sidelining head of AI John Giannandrea.
- The company plans to enhance Siri with deeper app integration and evolve it into a proactive digital copilot that could be previewed at its fall iPhone event if development proves promising.