Apple Hit With More Class Action Lawsuits Over Delayed Siri Features in U.S. and Canada

Apple has been deed with astatine slightest 2 much projected people enactment lawsuits implicit its delayed personalized Siri features for iPhones.


In the U.S., a complaint filed successful a California national tribunal this week alleges that Apple violated mendacious advertizing and unfair contention laws by selling Apple Intelligence upgrades for Siri that are inactive not available. The 2 named plaintiffs said they ne'er would person purchased oregon been consenting to wage arsenic overmuch for an iPhone 16 had they known that Apple's selling surrounding the features was mendacious and misleading.

Apple advertised the Siri features in merchandise presentations, on its website, in a TV commercialized starring histrion Bella Ramsey, and elsewhere.

Apple was already sued implicit the delayed Siri features successful California past month, and the people enactment lawsuits could yet beryllium merged if they proceed.

A akin ailment was filed against Apple past week in the Canadian state of British Columbia.

Apple archetypal previewed the personalized Siri features during its WWDC 2024 keynote past June, arsenic portion of a wide scope of Apple Intelligence features that it said would beryllium rolling retired implicit the people of the pursuing year. That gave Apple until WWDC 2025 this June to rotation retired the Siri features, but past period the institution announced that it needed much clip and anticipated rolling retired the features at immoderate constituent "in the coming year" from then.

The features were initially expected to motorboat successful iOS 18.4 past week, but they are present expected to get astatine immoderate constituent during the iOS 19 cycle. Many well-connected Apple reporters and observers judge the features volition not beryllium disposable until 2026.

Whenever they launch, the Siri upgrades volition see knowing of a user's idiosyncratic context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls. For example, during its WWDC 2024 keynote, Apple showed an iPhone idiosyncratic asking Siri astir their mother's formation and luncheon preservation plans based connected info from the Mail and Messages apps.

The people enactment lawsuits successful the U.S. and Canada are some seeking damages from Apple, successful an magnitude to beryllium proven astatine trial, truthful people members who purchased an iPhone 16 successful bid to usage the personalized Siri features could yet person a payout from Apple, if the judges presiding implicit each lawsuit find that the institution broke the law.

Apple's lawyers person yet to respond to immoderate of the lawsuits.
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