Siri engine to be fundamentally revamped across 2025, early 2026
Apple is in the process of overhauling Siri to catch up to AI engines like ChatGPT, but the revamp will emerge in stages across 2025 and into 2026.
Siri will continue to improve in increments across 2025 and into 2026.
The company has already introduced some minor changes to Siri, including the option to type commands, a revamped interface, and an improved ability to deal with pauses when users speak. Apple will also roll out a better interaction between Siri and apps, and better integration with personal data starting in iOS 18.4, expected in the spring of 2025.
One of the big changes users will notice that is coming soon is integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT. However, Bloomberg reports that this is more of a "band-aid" to give Siri a more AI feel while the company works on its own generative AI integration.
Apple's plans for its new Siri engine is likely to be unveiled at WWDC in June of 2025, and would likely be delivered to users in the spring of 2026 with iOS 19.4. This is expected to be the true complete revamp of Siri that integrates all the incremental changes into a unified whole.
Users will perceive the changes as more of a series of updates and improvements across the course of the next 18 months. The bigger vision within Apple, however, is a new foundation for Siri that relies less on outside help to answer user queries and commands.
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What the article is saying is that Apple is having to rebuild it from scratch because of AI advancements elsewhere that they are behind on. Doing that is a lot easier when the product isn't a live service, so it's going to roll out in stages over the next year or so.
I'd like to see Apple make this more obvious by offering a "Siri update" like they do with system updates. Instead of users having to guess when Siri can handle <task it can't currently handle>, Apple could detail Siri's evolution as part of its detail on system upgrades, so users would know what kinds of new questions they can ask.