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Investing.com -- Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL). announced on Friday that enhancements to its voice assistant Siri, driven by artificial intelligence (AI), will be postponed until 2026. The company had previously indicated that these features would be introduced in 2025.
Apple has been developing a more personalized Siri, with an increased understanding of individual user context and the capability to perform tasks within and across various apps. The company stated that the roll-out of these enhancements will take longer than initially anticipated.
The improvements are part of a range of AI-driven features called Apple Intelligence, announced by the company last year. These enhancements include new capabilities such as rewriting emails and summarizing a cluttered inbox. Major improvements were intended to enable Siri to navigate in and out of apps and complete tasks for the user by accessing information stored on Apple devices.
Examples provided by Apple included asking Siri to locate a podcast recommended by a friend or retrieve flight tracking information from a relative, all based on data stored on the device.
Apple did not provide a specific reason for the delay. The company has been constructing a large new cloud computing infrastructure that operates on its own chips. This effort aims to uphold its privacy standards while delivering AI features. According to Apple, Siri processes 1.5 billion user requests per day.
Competitors in the tech industry have also been rapidly incorporating AI features into their voice assistants. Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Google incorporated its Gemini model into its assistant last year. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), on the other hand, introduced an AI-driven revamp of its Alexa assistant last month, offering the new capabilities for free to its Prime subscribers and at a monthly fee of $19.99 for others.
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