Siri’s functions promoted by AI will arrive in 2026

Apple He has chosen to delay the arrival of the functions promoted by artificial intelligence (AI) of the Apple Intelligence ecosystem to his Siri virtual assistant, who was initially planned for this month of April and that will finally run to 2026, since his developer team is still correcting project errors.

The company announced at its World Developer 4 Conference, held in June last year, that the arrival of the set of capacities based on Apple Intelligence would mark A “new era” for Siritool currently admits 1.5 billion voice requests per day.

Thanks to this technology, its virtual assistant would release a new logo and a different aspect, in addition to being integrated into the system experience. On the other hand, it would be able to understand and act according to what appears on the screen, as the brand advanced then.

At the time of his ad, Apple indicated that he planned to integrate Apple Intelligence in the first versions of its operating systems (iOS 18, Ipados 18 and Macos Sequoia) from autumn. However, its implementation took more than expected and came through the following system updates. In Spain it is not yet available, although it does appear in the latest beta version for iOS 18.4 developers.

The AI ​​will take even more to reach Siri, since, although the company had not initially established a deadline for deployment, it is delaying its launch because it still works to solve a series of errors recorded in the application.

Bloomberg recalled that Apple planned to integrate the new capabilities of AI in its assistant In the ‘software’ 18.4 update, planned for April. However, a few days ago he advanced that Apple had presented difficulties in launching these characteristics, so that it would postpone its presentation at least until May, with iOS 18.5.

Sources consulted by this means have indicated that in the period prior to this last delay, the senior vice president of Apple’s ‘software’, Craight Federight, as well as other brand managers had expressed their concern that the characteristics had not worked in the right way during their tests.

Bloomberg has also pointed out that people familiar with the brand have indicated that some members of the Apple’s division believe that their work in these functions could be completely abandoned and have suggested that Technology could rebuild them from scratch.

In this way, the company based in Cupertino would have put a broader launch period and the deployment of the tasted AI capacities will be delayed until the next generation of Siri, which Apple hopes to have a list for 2026, during the iOS launch cycle 19.

This media has finally added that there is also internal concern that, to request this problem with Siri, it will be necessary to have more powerful models in Apple devices. Because they will demand more capacity, Apple should increase the ‘hardware’ capacities of future products so that Apple Intelligence works at full performance.