Apple is still reeling from the last-week’s news that the most compelling new Apple Intelligence features for Siri have been indefinitely delayed. Over the weekend, it pulled a YouTube ad showcasing personal context running on the iPhone 16.
Now, it has updated the Apple website with a new disclaimer wherever the unreleased Siri features are mentioned on the iPhone marketing pages.
The Siri features would let users easily find information from conversations with friends and family, like mentioned flight numbers or book recommendations, scanning across Messages, Mail and other apps. On-screen awareness would also let you easily take action on the current app, for instance by asking Siri to “edit this image to make it pop” when looking at an image in the Photos app.
After rumors that development on these features was running into trouble, Apple officially confirmed the features were delayed with a press statement released on Friday last week. Its company statement said “It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year”.
The new message to customers found on Apple’s website is different, but equally as vague. It reads:
Siri’s personal context understanding, onscreen awareness, and in-app actions are in development and will be available with a future software update.
Here’s a screenshot of the newly-added message on the iPhone 16e product page:
The same disclaimer wording is found across pages for iPhone 16e, iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro, iPad and more. Essentially, anywhere where these features were previously advertised without even an asterisk about their yet-to-be-released availability.
Although Apple has obviously not provided a more specific window, we expect the “future software update” to be a version of iOS 19. The first developer beta of iOS 19 will arrive this summer, at WWDC in June. But a future update to iOS 19 could span anywhere from fall 2025 through summer 2026. So, don’t wait with baited breath.
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