An update AI-based Siri was promised last year, but has been delayed for months. After WWDC 2025, it was still not clear when the overhead Siri would be launched.
Now, from a report Mark Gurman of Bloomberg It is claimed that Apple is targeting spring 2026 to launch advanced Siri. Apparently, Siri Rivamp will appear as part of iOS 26.4.
If Apple holds the same schedule as iOS 18, it means that we can see the public version of the iOS 26.4 release in late March in 2026. The beta version will probably be available a few weeks ago.
During the WWDC 2025, Tom’s guide Global Editor -in -Chief Mark Spunaur was able to discuss and discuss the delay with Apple’s Craig Federegi and Greg Josaviyak.
After some internal reshuffle, Federghi has allegedly developed Siri.
When Apple Intelligence was introduced in WWDC 2024, Siri was about to achieve many enrichrs including more conversion experience and relevant reactions.
According to Federighi, the company was working on two versions of Siri and found that at least one version was not ready during the need to upgrade the architecture.
“We found that the boundaries of V1 Architecture were not taking us to the level of quality that we knew that our customers needed and expected … If we tried to push it out in the state, it would not meet our customers’ expectations or apple standards and we had to go into V2 Architecture.”
We found that the boundaries of V1 Architecture were not taking us to the level of quality that we knew that our customers needed and expected … If we tried to push it out in the state, it would not meet our customer expectations or apple standards and we had to go into V2 Architecture.
Craig Federighi, Apple
Due to problems with two versions and the need to transfer to a new “architecture”, Apple officially announced that Siri was delayed in this year’s March, some companies rarely do.
During the talk at WWDC 2025, Apple was a release date.
“We will announce the date when we prepare it for seeds, and you are all ready to be able to experience it,” Federighi said.
Meanwhile, Apple has opened its big language model for third -party developers. Previous reports have said that the company has also allowed its engineers to tap in non-apple AI models to help Apple Intelligence and Siri improve.
It is not clear that Siri will become a chatbot, similar to the chat of Google Gemini or Openai. Apple is saying that it does not want to build a chatbot and “wants to meet those where they are with AI.
Apple has openly struggled with Siri, and there is no guarantee that development does not hit the snag in the next few months.
Nevertheless, Siri appears to be in capable hands under the leadership of Federighi, so we hope that it will probably hit its internal time limit for a spring launch.
Between now and spring
For now, Apple Apple Apple appears to be set to improve intelligence features, which are already available, like visual intelligence, providing new, which have an impact on their suits of software including iOS 26, iPados 26, MACOS 26, Macos 26, Macos 26 Tahoe and even the new workout big features including the new workout big feature.
According to Gurman, if things go well, a preview may later fall around the time when the iPhone 17 is launched.
