Apple Intelligence's biggest Siri features expected next year, with a beta in January

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Siri is running late.

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Apple Intelligence was a big focus of this year's WWDC keynote, but the suite of features is rolling out piecemeal across the next few months. And, one of the headline features could be due to arrive in Spring 2025.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports in his latest Power On newsletter that key aspects of the Siri upgrade "should arrive next spring", including the ability to take actions within apps and read what's on your screen.

Much was promised about the new version of Apple's long-running assistant, but Gurman reiterates those major improvements won't arrive alongside iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, or iPadOS 18 this year.

"Siri features are likely to go into beta testing for developers in January and then debut publicly around the springtime — part of an iOS 18.4 upgrade that’s already in the works," he explains.

Priory notifications on iOS 18

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The complex rollout of Apple Intelligence

So what is coming this year for Apple Intelligence? Gurman still expects features such as the fresh Siri design and ChatGPT integration to arrive this year (although not for EU users, it seems), and potentially not as part of the iOS 18 launch version.

The Apple Mail updates are likely to arrive this year as part of iOS 18.1 or 18.2, too, meaning the mainline iOS release (and likely macOS Sequoia and iPadOS 18) could be looking a little thin in terms of major new features for the time being.

At least we'll have Genmoji, though, right?

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Lloyd Coombes is a freelance writer with a specialism in Apple tech. From his first, hand-me-down iMac, he’s been working with Apple products for over a decade, and while he loves his iPhone and Mac, the iPad will always have his heart for reasons he still can’t quite fathom. Since moving from blogging to writing professionally, Lloyd’s work can be found at TechRadar, Macworld, TechAdvisor and plenty more. He’s also the Editor in Chief at GGRecon.com, and on the rare occasion he’s not writing you’ll find him spending time with his son, or working hard at the gym (while wearing an Apple Watch, naturally). You can find him on Twitter @lloydcoombes.

3 Comments Comment from the forums
  • shdwx14
    iMore.com said:
    One of Apple Intelligence's headline Siri additions will arrive in 2025, it's reported.

    Apple Intelligence's biggest Siri features expected next year, with a beta in January : Read more
    I was dead set on the iPhone 16 Pro Max/Ultra but if it’s not releasing until possibly sometime in spring of ‘25 I might just wait until the iPhone 17 Pro Max/Ultra. Watch they’ll say some AI features won’t be available because they maxed out the performance on the 16 so the 17 will be needed kinda like Vision Pro. Funny how Apple is now saying it will be available on the Vision Pro.
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  • Just_Me_D
    shdwx14 said:
    I was dead set on the iPhone 16 Pro Max/Ultra but if it’s not releasing until possibly sometime in spring of ‘25 I might just wait until the iPhone 17 Pro Max/Ultra. Watch they’ll say some AI features won’t be available because they maxed out the performance on the 16 so the 17 will be needed kinda like Vision Pro. Funny how Apple is now saying it will be available on the Vision Pro.

    I hear ya. I get annoyed when things are introduced with a brand new dev beta 1, but won’t be available when the iOS release is official. If it’s not going to be live or available at the time of the official iOS launch then I don’t want to hear about it.

    I understand the sales pitch of ‘will be available later this year’ is a ploy to beef up sales for the Christmas holiday and Q4 financial reporting purposes, but this is starting to get ridiculous.

    The iPhone is popular enough and desirable enough to stand on the merits of the hardware and iOS in and of itself in my opinion.
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  • FFR
    I wouldn’t put too much stock on mark gurman rumors.
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