Apple’s Gemini-powered Siri upgrade could still arrive this month
Apple has had a jam-packed March after just three weeks. The company announced eight new products, broke a Mac launch record, and highlighted 13 enhancements coming to iPhone. Next, one of the most overdue Apple releases in years could follow: Personal Intelligence for Siri and Apple Intelligence.
Apple’s long road to a ‘more personalized’ Siri Apple first unveiled Apple Intelligence as part of iOS 18 at WWDC 2024 on June 10, 2024. Apple rolled out most of the Apple Intelligence suite of features in iOS 18.1, iOS 18.2, iOS 18.3, and iOS 18.4.
Personal Intelligence, however, never made the iOS 18 release cycle. Neither did the kind of in-app action and on-screen awareness features that Apple originally announced.
Apple officially delayed its “more personalized” version of Siri one year ago on March 7, 2025. This is what Apple said at the time:
“Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added an integration with ChatGPT. We’ve also been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps. 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.”
At the time, Apple skillfully deployed the phrase “in the coming year” to mean that last year’s announcement wouldn’t be ready until next year at the earliest.
Then on January 12, 2026, Apple and Google made a joint announcement that the two companies were collaborating on a Gemini-powered upgrade to Siri and Apple Intelligence.
Apple reportedly targeted iOS 26.4 for the first Gemini-powered enhancements. While that release turned out to be feature-packed, the new Siri features aren’t present.
Prior to iOS 26.4’s first developer beta release, Mark Gurman reported for Bloomberg that Apple would instead target iOS 26.5 and iOS 27. Apple has also signaled that we’ll eventually see more Siri and Apple Intelligence features using the new system than the unreleased capabilities that it originally announced.
Apple has had a jam-packed March after just three weeks. The company announced eight new products, broke a Mac launch record, and highlighted 13 enhancements coming to iPhone. Next, one of the most overdue Apple releases in years could follow: Personal Intelligence for Siri and Apple Intelligence.
Apple’s long road to a ‘more personalized’ Siri Apple first unveiled Apple Intelligence as part of iOS 18 at WWDC 2024 on June 10, 2024. Apple rolled out most of the Apple Intelligence suite of features in iOS 18.1, iOS 18.2, iOS 18.3, and iOS 18.4.
Personal Intelligence, however, never made the iOS 18 release cycle. Neither did the kind of in-app action and on-screen awareness features that Apple originally announced.
Apple officially delayed its “more personalized” version of Siri one year ago on March 7, 2025. This is what Apple said at the time:
“Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added an integration with ChatGPT. We’ve also been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps. 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.”
At the time, Apple skillfully deployed the phrase “in the coming year” to mean that last year’s announcement wouldn’t be ready until next year at the earliest.
Then on January 12, 2026, Apple and Google made a joint announcement that the two companies were collaborating on a Gemini-powered upgrade to Siri and Apple Intelligence.
Apple reportedly targeted iOS 26.4 for the first Gemini-powered enhancements. While that release turned out to be feature-packed, the new Siri features aren’t present.
Prior to iOS 26.4’s first developer beta release, Mark Gurman reported for Bloomberg that Apple would instead target iOS 26.5 and iOS 27. Apple has also signaled that we’ll eventually see more Siri and Apple Intelligence features using the new system than the unreleased capabilities that it originally announced.
Apple has had a jam-packed March after just three weeks. The company announced eight new products, broke a Mac launch record, and highlighted 13 enhancements coming to iPhone. Next, one of the most overdue Apple releases in years could follow: Personal Intelligence for Siri and Apple Intelligence.
Apple’s long road to a ‘more personalized’ Siri Apple first unveiled Apple Intelligence as part of iOS 18 at WWDC 2024 on June 10, 2024. Apple rolled out most of the Apple Intelligence suite of features in iOS 18.1, iOS 18.2, iOS 18.3, and iOS 18.4.
Personal Intelligence, however, never made the iOS 18 release cycle. Neither did the kind of in-app action and on-screen awareness features that Apple originally announced.
Apple officially delayed its “more personalized” version of Siri one year ago on March 7, 2025. This is what Apple said at the time:
“Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added an integration with ChatGPT. We’ve also been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps. 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.”
At the time, Apple skillfully deployed the phrase “in the coming year” to mean that last year’s announcement wouldn’t be ready until next year at the earliest.
Then on January 12, 2026, Apple and Google made a joint announcement that the two companies were collaborating on a Gemini-powered upgrade to Siri and Apple Intelligence.
Apple reportedly targeted iOS 26.4 for the first Gemini-powered enhancements. While that release turned out to be feature-packed, the new Siri features aren’t present.
Prior to iOS 26.4’s first developer beta release, Mark Gurman reported for Bloomberg that Apple would instead target iOS 26.5 and iOS 27. Apple has also signaled that we’ll eventually see more Siri and Apple Intelligence features using the new system than the unreleased capabilities that it originally announced.
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Apple’s Gemini-powered Siri upgrade could still arrive this month
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