On February 12, according to BloombergappleInternal rhythm adjusted, new Siri Some of the functions will be extended to iOS 26.5 or even iOS 27, which is only online in September, and will require multiple versions to complete the capability。
At the up-line rhythm, the new Siri initially committed to landing in early 2025 and then postponed the whole to iOS 26.4 in March 2026. But recently, the engineering team has been asked to switch to iOS 26.5 as the main test environment。
From an overall planning perspective, apples are moving to iOS 27 from siri, which was originally concentrated in a single version, to several sections, with some expected to fall on iOS 26.5 in May:
At the current test stage, the new Siri exposed a number of shortboards, including an understanding of voice requests that are unstable, response times are too long and are vulnerable to failure in complex command scenarios. Testers also provide feedback, and when users speak at a little speed, Siri interrupts the command and has poor test experience
The ability to "deeply call personal data" that was originally considered a killer-class selling point is being significantly undermined. This function allows Siri to retrieve information directly from personal content such as text messages and to call the corresponding app function. But in the iOS 26.5 internal version, it is only a preview that needs to be opened manually. Form exists, indicating that experience is not mature
Another ability to slow progress is based on the advanced voice control of AppIntents, which aims to complete multi-step applications in one sentence, such as mapping, editing and sending. The mechanism is already online in the internal measurement system but is not stable enough
Notably, the internal version of iOS 26.4 and 26.5 also contains two new capabilities that have not yet been made public: web search questions and answers and image generation. The former form is close to Perplexity, which consolidates web-based information and gives a summary and links, while the latter is based on a mapping park, but the results are currently poor
For iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27, the Apple Project, code-named "Campo", is also being advanced within the Apple, with the aim of creating Siri as a more chat robot-like system-level AI portal with deep access to core applications such as mail, calendar and Safari
It is reported that,An important context for the slow advance of the Siri upgrade is the strong position of apples on privacy。APPLES INSIST ON COMPLETING THEIR REASONING AT THE END OF THE DEVICE AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, OR USING ONLY SERVERS WITH PRIVACY PROTECTION MECHANISMS, AND AVOID TRAINING DIRECTLY USING USER-REAL DATA. AND THIS CONFLICTED WITH THE WORK OF THE LLM MODEL。
On the power side, Cook recently indicated internally that Apple Silicon was being used to build a data centre solution tailored to apple equipment. This cloud-based AI chip, codenamed Baltra, will be used to support subsequent heavier Siri and generated AI tasks。
Apparently, apples do not want the new Siri project to delay this critical point of time in spring 2026, but the reality is that AI Siri's troubles continue, and there is no better solution for apples at this time。