The big iOS 26 release from September didn't bring much in the way of new Apple Intelligence features, but that figures to change next year. Apple continues to work on a revamped version of its voice assistant — dubbed Siri 2.0 — that infuses more AI and context awareness into the feature. All that's supposed to happen with iOS 26.4, which is reportedly landing sometime in the spring.
If all this sounds familiar, that's because Apple was promising a smarter version of Siri when it first introduced Siri last year. But the company wound up pressing pause on that update when it realized that making Siri smarter required a lot more work than it had anticipated. Even now, reports out of Cupertino suggest that the behind-the-scenes work on Siri is not going swimmingly.
