The iOS 18 launch it is one of the most anticipated. Yet, the news involving Apple is not entirely reassuring. They have been announced several limitations for the old iPhone with the arrival of the new update. Additionally, many of the new features will be available only to 15 Pro and 16 models. Now, comes another disappointment. The AI options planned for iOS18 will not be ready for expected date.
Mark Gurmanjournalist from Bloomberg, released the news. According to reports, in fact, some of the new ones AI features Of Siri they won’t arrive until next year.
Apple announces delays for AI functions
Gurman provided details on the functionality that Siri should acquire. According to the journalist, Apple is working to allow the voice assistant to control all its options proprietary applications and those of the gods partner. Siri, thanks to AI, will be able to open documents, move them between folders, write and delete emails, summarize texts and web pages and scroll through the section News to provide users with the main news. The aforementioned operations will be carried out via voice commands
as is already the case with the current version of Siri, but with capabilities significantly enhanced by AI.
When iOS 18 launches, Siri’s AI capabilities will be limited. The digital assistant will only work with system applications iOS18 and with i proprietary software of Apple. Integration with applications third parts it will only arrive later. Additionally, Siri will only be able to perform aaction at a time. This means that it will not be possible combine multiple commands in a single request.
According to Gurman, this limitation is due to the fact that Siri with AI will use a proprietary language model developed by Apple. Some rumors had hypothesized the arrival of a possible agreement with OpenAI to complete this project. The Cupertino company instead preferred to develop its own model. The latter turns out to be in development phase and it is not yet ready to launch. Precisely for this reason Apple has decided to postpone the release of some of Siri’s functions until next year.
