- Apple said that he has laid off his siri overhaul propelled by AI, which is now planned for the coming year.
- The Siri upgrade was announced in 2024 and promised a more personalized and more competent virtual assistant.
- It is rare that Apple delays a product once it has already been announced.
You can probably count on the one hand the number of times that Apple has publicly announced a product delay.
But Apple did exactly that on Friday, announcing that its AI redesign plan for its virtual assistant, Siri, takes more time than expected.
“It will take us more time than we thought to deliver these features and we plan to deploy them in the coming year,” said company spokesperson Jacqueline Roy, to the unconvilled Apple blog, daring of Fireball on Siri “more personalized”.
This is not the first time that Apple had delayed a product after announcing it, but it is a rare event.
In 2016, Airpods was to be sold in October, but Apple delayed the release until December. Before that, in 2011, the white iPhone 4 released 10 months after the black model, as pointed out by the daring Fireball John Gruber in his blog article on the delay.
And on an extremely rare occasion, Apple has completely canceled a product after having shown it.
After its airpower wireless charging carpet was announced in 2017 with a launch scheduled for 2018, Apple confirmed that it was no longer in progress, apologizing to customers and saying that it had determined that the product would be “Do not reach our high standards. “”
When Apple Intelligence was announced for the first time at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2024, the technology giant highlighted an SIRI propelled by AI which could answer the more complex questions of users using the personal context.
As the features of the AI came to iOS 18 from October, Apple said to expect new languages this spring, but that did not specify exactly when the new Siri would be ready. There have been a few smaller adjustments to Siri since 2024, including the integration of chatgpt, the possibility of typing questions from Siri and an more conversational assistant.
In September – before the version of the iPhone 16 – Apple published an ad that features actor Bella Ramsey to demonstrate Siri’s ability “more personal” to extract information from the Calendar application to help Ramsey remember the name of someone.
Now, it seems that the long -awaited upgrade will not arrive on iPhones before 2026 or the next generation of its iOS operating system.
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