Apple’s Siri AI Upgrade Faces Potential Delays Due to Bugs and Engineering Issues

Originally planned for iOS 18.4 in April, the enhanced Siri features may now debut with iOS 18.5 as Apple addresses software challenges.

Apple's AI-powered Siri, featuring personal context awareness, cross-app actions, and on-screen recognition, was first unveiled at WWDC 2024.
The Siri upgrade was initially expected to launch with iOS 18.4 in April, but engineering and software bugs may push its release to iOS 18.5 in May or later.
Some Siri features could still be included in iOS 18.4, but they might be disabled by default or added in later beta updates to allow more development time.
Apple employees testing the new Siri have encountered inconsistent performance and bugs, prompting the potential delay.
The enhanced Siri functionality will require an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or iPhone 16 model to operate.