Apple admits its new AI-powered Siri didn't work: this is how one of its big 2024 plans fell through.

Apple made Apple Intelligence available to users in late January with the iOS 18.3 operating system update . Thanks to this software, users were able to immediately access all the features and tools offered by this artificial intelligence, however, the new Siri never arrived .

Apple spokeswoman Jacqueline Roy told Daring Fireball in mid-March that the company needed more time to deliver a personalized, conversational assistant , given that the Cupertino-based company promised a more powerful version of Siri when it first unveiled Apple Intelligence at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference .

Faced with such a one-year delay, Roy stressed that, today, "Siri helps users find what they need and get things done quickly," therefore, he justified that, in the last six months, they have made Siri more conversational and customizable , "giving it more awareness of personal context, as well as the ability to take action for users."

Roy noted that these features will take longer than they thought to be available, but they plan to implement them next year —in 2026. But why has the new AI-powered Siri been delayed so long?

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This is why the new Siri with AI is delayed.

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, explains in an interview with TechRadar that , surprisingly, Siri had two versions of the final architecture they were going to create: “We found that the limitations of the V1 architecture didn’t allow us to achieve the level of quality that we knew our customers needed and expected. We realized that with the V1 architecture, we could push and expand it and spend more time on it, but if we tried to extend it as it was going to be, it wouldn’t meet our customers’ expectations or Apple’s standards, and we would have to migrate to the V2 architecture .”

But what's the difference between the V1 and V2 architectures? The V1 architecture represents approximately half the scope of the V2 architecture. Therefore, this second, more complete and coherent version offers higher quality and advanced capabilities because it has been transformed into a fully integrated architecture that encompasses the entire Siri experience.

There is already a "pure architecture that encompasses the entire Siri experience"

Once they realized they couldn't ship an incomplete Siri, Tim Cook's company began working on the second version to turn it into a "pure architecture that encompasses the entire Siri experience." Furthermore, to corroborate that they have already tested the V2 architecture, Federighi revealed that they have it "working internally," although it hasn't yet reached the level of quality to turn it into a "major Apple feature."

There is no exact release date for the new Siri at this time, but Apple will announce the official launch when they are ready to distribute and test it.

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