Apple has closed a Siri office in San Diego, where a total of 121 employees formed a team. What does this mean for Apple’s voice assistant?
Apple closes Siri office in San Diego
Bad news for the employees of a Siri office in San Diego, as Apple has announced that the location is closing. The team working in San Diego focused on techniques to make Siri more accurate. To do that, responses from iPhone users were evaluated. That will soon no longer happen in San Diego, but that does not mean the end of the Apple team.
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Employees have received an offer to work at a Siri office in Austin, Texas. This offer applies to all employees, so it appears that the two locations will be merged into one large team. Does an employee find the move to Austin too far away? The contract will then be terminated. Does this reorganization mean we can expect changes to Siri?
Siri is getting a major update in iOS 18
According to previous rumors, yes, because they predict that Siri will receive a huge update in iOS 18. It’s about time, because Siri is no longer seen as intelligent these days. Due to all the developments in the field of artificial intelligence, Siri is now very outdated. Apple is therefore giving Siri a major update this year, which the two teams will probably work on together in Austin.
The original team in Austin also analyzed techniques to make Siri more accurate. That is an important point of attention for Apple this year, because according to rumors, Siri in iOS 18 should conduct a conversation in a much more natural way. In addition, the voice assistant will be better integrated with Apple’s Shortcuts app. This allows Siri to perform many more tasks and multiple actions can be performed at once.
Update will only be released in the summer
The employees of the new, large team in the Siri office still have some time to improve the voice assistant. Siri will only receive the update with iOS 18, which is the major iOS update that will be released at the same time as the iPhone 16. Apple releases the new iPhone every year in September, so there is still plenty of time to make major changes and improvements. the updated version of Siri.
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In any case, that is good news for the team behind Siri, because this year we will probably see the best version ever of the voice assistant. Apple could finally compete with ChatGPT and other AI services. Do you want to know more about the new version of Siri? Then read everything we already know about Siri 2.0 here!
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