Apple has admitted its personalised Siri features, announced at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, are still not ready a year later. And it may still be delayed until 2026.
Many were expecting some major announcements around Siri today at today’s WWDC 2025 keynote to deliver on the promised features unveiled last year.
But Apple’s senior vice president for software engineering Craig Federighi said more work needs to be done.
“As we’ve shared, we’re continuing our work to deliver the features that make Siri even more personal,” Federighi said.
“This work needed more time to reach our high quality bar and we look forward to sharing more about it in the coming year.”
Federighi made no mention of a more personalised and enhanced Siri for any of the software update announcements which indicates we could be waiting till next year.
At last year’s WWDC keynote there were many ambitious Siri features announced including Personal Context which gives Siri the ability to look at photos, messages and your calendar to answer queries and organise your time and Semantic Indexing which can look at data from emails, images, apps you’ve used and websites you’ve visited.
Also promised was App Control to control features and perform tasks using Siri along with On-Screen Awareness so you Siri can understand user content within your apps like numbers and addresses and act on your requests.
For example, Siri could create a contact card from a message and set calendar notes based on dates discussed in your messages.
The demo Apple offered at last year’s WWDC showed Siri being used to organise a lunch booking while keeping track of an incoming flight.
