Apple’s AI turmoil reached new heights on Friday, as the company pushed back promised updates to its Siri digital assistant for the foreseeable future, Bloomberg reported.
Apple said the features introduced in June, including the ability for Siri to access a user’s personal information to answer queries and gain more granular control over apps, will be released sometime “next year.”
The iPhone maker didn’t give a public deadline for the capabilities to be activated, but they were initially planned for an update to iOS 18.4 in April.
Bloomberg News reported on Feb. 14 that Apple was struggling to finish developing the features and that improvements would be delayed until at least May — when iOS 18.5 is due to launch.
Since then, Apple engineers have been racing to fix a series of bugs in the project. The work hasn’t panned out, according to people involved in the effort, and they now believe the features won’t be released until next year at the earliest.
Some inside Apple’s AI division believe that work on the features could be scrapped entirely, and that Apple might have to rebuild the functionality from scratch. The capabilities would then be delayed until the next generation of Siri, which Apple hopes to begin rolling out in 2026.
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