According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is aiming to ship its brand new App Intents feature, allowing Siri to take actions for you, next Spring – alongside its long-promised Siri overhaul. These features were initially on track to launch during the iOS 18 release cycle, though Apple faced engineering delays. Now, they should launch by ~iOS 26.4, according to current reporting.
Apple’s Siri delays sure have been disappointing, and Apple likely shouldn’t have announced the features without having a near-final version complete internally – but nonetheless, Apple made some bold promises for AI. The company offered a vision for an all-new Siri that’d be able to actually do things for you, by taking actions in apps.
That’s been a hard promise to deliver on, but according to Gurman, it sounds like Apple is making progress, though they aren’t free of concerns quite yet:
The plan now is to ship the feature alongside a broader Siri infrastructure overhaul in the spring and market it heavily. But there’s some concern inside the company, I’m told. Engineers have been struggling to ensure that the system works with a sufficient number of apps and is accurate enough to handle high-stakes scenarios. There are worries about the software failing in categories where precision is nonnegotiable, like in health or banking apps.
Apple is reportedly working with a number of large companies to conduct testing prior to the rollout, to ensure things work properly. From the sounds of things, App Intents won’t be available universally when they finally roll out next spring. The company is even considering “sharply limiting what Siri can do — or excluding those areas altogether” for sensitive categories.
Nonetheless, Apple has a lot banking on these critical Siri promises they made at WWDC24. Hopefully they’ll finally stick the landing. Given Siri’s already awful reputation, it’d be hard to imagine how Apple would recover from its already poor position in the AI race if the new App Intents-infused Siri made a critical mistake that severely impacted someones life.
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