- A report claims Apple has stumbled with the Siris Store AI Education
- The company apparently faces ‘technical problems’ and bugs
- Ironing all this may mean that the renewed Siri does not make the apparently intended clip for iOS 18.4
Apple is reportedly struggling with its highly awaited great renewal of Siri and may have to push back upgrade until iOS 18.5 in May.
According to the experienced Apple Watcher Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, claiming “technical problems and software errors” can further delay the audit, which was set to give the assistant more far-reaching AI forces driven by Apple Intelligence.
If you throw your mind back to WWDC 2024, Apple revealed a huge AI upgrade for Siri, some of which came into play last year, but others more complex abilities are still in the works.
With reference to “People with Knowledge of the Case”, Gurman reports that this functionality proves more difficult to implement than expected, and that some of these in -depth functions do not seem to work consistently enough. It includes some of the more impressive powers demonstrated by Apple earlier, such as having Siri sheds across E emails and text messages to find a relative’s flight and lunch reservation plans, to choose a specific example highlighted by Gurman.
More broadly, Gurman’s sources paint a picture of Apple’s engineers “Racing” to complete these AI features. The original plan was reportedly to launch the upgraded Siri in iOS 18.4 – an update that was joined in April 2025 (the beta should be imminent) – but now it could be pushed back to May (in iOS 18.5 apparently) or even later.
Some or all of these heavy AI forces for Siri may be detained, so we could potentially see a smash of new abilities in iOS 18.4 – but it sounds a lot in the air, especially considering that this is a relatively close timeframe now.
Gurman also theorizes that another option for Apple could be to include the new AI features for Siri in iOS 18.4, but switched off by default – probably a ‘use on your own risk’ kind of scenario. Apple can then choose to fully enable them (as standard) in the next release of iOS when anyone finally gremlins is extended, presumably.
Somehow, it sounds like Siri is being fully upgraded with all AI features that Apple promised looks a shaking view in the closer look-predicted that Gurman’s sources are of course accurate.
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What are these AI forces, can you wonder? To summarize on the WWDC reveal, they include some large pieces of puzzle to really apps to ease better control of this software.
A more personal experience and a whole bunch of new tricks should be possible, including the ability described by Gurman above regarding the reservation plans of the rash.
The problem is that some Apple fans are increasingly eager to actually try some of the compelling features of Siri that were demonstrated by Apple the best part of a year ago now. Right in the last week we’ve written about how iOS 18.4 Beta promises to include the Siri upgrade we’ve been waiting for and that iOS 18.4 could be the biggest iPhone upgrade ever.
So far we have been treated with a smart new interface to the assistant, and these chatgpt chops, but there is nothing that heralds the arrival of the brand new, much more powerful AI, which we were promised by Apple at its large developer conference Last year.
The danger is that if iOS 18.4 shows up and Siri again stands quiet on the AI front, people will start to lose patience here. And not only that, but a sluggish implementation of these AI features will reinforce the impression of Apple as hanging behind the rest of the tech industry in the artificial field of intelligence.
To be fair to Apple, as it revealed Siri’s new AI functionality at WWDC last year, for the more complex features, the company promised nothing in terms of delivery beyond a rollout in 2025.
This caution in itself may have been a hint that Apple was not sure of a delivery time frame, and realized the complexity of actually implementing all this, so it works well.
As always, this is just scraped from the rumor, so take it with some skepticism, although Gurman is definitely one of the more reliable journalists out there when it comes to Insider Info from Apple. We will probably find out soon, with a new iPhone that was tilted for release next week and possibly some iOS news at the same time.
