Apple showcased its new AI focus that will be offered with the new iOS 18 update later this year. The company is also bringing a new-look Siri that promises better responses and a human touch. However, new reports suggest the Siri 2.0 version will only get some of the features that was announced at the WWDC 2024 earlier this month. The report from Bloomberg shares new details about Apple’s AI mission and how it is ready to get things right rather than push them out in a half-baked state.
Apple’s New AI-Powered Siri: How It Will Work
The report says that Siri will be available in 2024 which includes the new user interface for the voice assistant along with the edge screen lighting activating Siri, like we saw during the Siri demo at the event.
As for the contextual outputs, Siri will have the ability to understand your queries even if you make any mistakes and give the right answer. More importantly, Siri can talk to you without needing the wake work Hey Siri every time, which brings the conversational side to the assistant.
Most of the basic stuff will be available this year, so what is Apple likely to keep in the reserves till 2025? The more intuitive features like allowing Siri to search for items on the device based on a topic, an item or even a date. The other big AI upgrade for Siri will be on-screen awareness which allows the Assistant to know what you are doing on the iPhone and help you with answers based on those activities.
Apple’s AI-powered Siri will be available sometime this year but it could be offered in a preview mode with a waitlist option also not being ruled out. All these mechanisms in place suggest Apple will keep working on improving the new Siri and only give it a wider release when it is fully satisfied with the progress.
Some might say that Apple’s phased approach could push it further behind OpenAI or even Microsoft. But to be fair, we would prefer a mishap-free AI roll out that avoids major controversies which Apple would clearly want to avoid.
We also know that Apple will bring its new AI features to the iPhone 15 Pro or later models only.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has explained that Apple Intelligence features need the new A17 Pro chipset that the premium iPhone Pros offer but you also need the additional 8GB memory to get the best experience of the AI features from Apple. The A16 was never primed to get AI features as the A17 Pro chipset had the more powerful NPU to handle the complex AI tasks on-device, including the support for the new-gen Siri.
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