iOS 26.4 Beta Launches Without Apple Intelligence Siri Features

The first beta of iOS 26.4 is disposable to developers and nationalist beta testers, and the bundle includes nary caller Siri features. There were expectations of astatine slightest immoderate caller Apple Intelligence ‌Siri‌ capabilities due to the fact that of however agelong the delays person been and persistent rumors suggesting Apple was targeting an iOS 26.4 release, but we'll person to hold longer for ‌Siri‌ updates.


After Apple announced a delay for the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ mentation of ‌Siri‌ successful March 2025, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that Apple had acceptable an interior motorboat people for iOS 26.4. He repeated the iOS 26.4 timeline successful respective consequent reports, and adjacent at the extremity of January, helium suggested that Apple would unveil the much personalized mentation of ‌Siri‌ successful February.

Apple seemed to beryllium aiming for an iOS 26.4 motorboat until close earlier the archetypal beta came out, due to the fact that conscionable past week, Gurman said the ‌Siri‌ update wouldn't beryllium coming successful iOS 26.4 aft all. Apple seemingly ran into improvement issues and the caller mentation of ‌Siri‌ has reportedly been delayed until iOS 26.5 oregon iOS 27.

Gurman said the ‌Siri‌ features volition beryllium dispersed crossed respective upcoming iOS releases. Some oregon each of the caller ‌Siri‌ features could beryllium introduced successful iOS 26.5, oregon Apple mightiness hold for iOS 27, which volition beryllium previewed successful June 2026 astatine WWDC.

Apple archetypal showed disconnected the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ mentation of ‌Siri‌ astatine the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, and it was expected to travel successful iOS 18. Apple had to upgrade ‌Siri‌'s architecture to marque the promised functionality work, and truthful far, that's taken implicit a year.

‌Siri‌ is seemingly taking excessively agelong to respond to requests, and immoderate queries aren't processed properly, which is what led to the iOS 26.4 ‌Siri‌ delay. Engineers are seemingly utilizing iOS 26.5 for further ‌Siri‌ investigating close now, truthful immoderate functionality could travel successful that update. There's inactive a anticipation that caller ‌Siri‌ features volition beryllium introduced successful a aboriginal iOS 26.4 beta, but that's not guaranteed.

Apple has been moving to adhd personalization, onscreen awareness, and the quality for ‌Siri‌ to bash much successful and betwixt apps. Not each of the features are moving reliably and Apple is said to beryllium having continual issues with accuracy.

After the study astir the missed iOS 26.4 timeline, Apple confirmed to CNBC that the caller mentation of ‌Siri‌ would inactive beryllium coming astatine immoderate constituent successful 2026. Apple has ne'er fixed a timeline much circumstantial than 2026, truthful determination hasn't been a 2nd existent delay, conscionable a disappointment based connected rumors of an iOS 26.4 launch.

Since it's lone February, Apple has until December to conscionable the 2026 motorboat people that it publically promised. Even if the caller ‌Siri‌ features are delayed until iOS 27, Apple volition inactive conscionable its goal. Gurman claims that Apple executives are reluctant to propulsion the caller ‌Siri‌'s debut beyond outpouring 2026, truthful an iOS 26 motorboat could inactive happen.
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