Apple will release iOS 19 this year, but the most important feature will reportedly not be available until 2026. We already know this.
iOS 19
Apple has not yet released the key features of iOS 18 in Europe, but the first rumors about iOS 19 have already surfaced. It is now clear that Siri will receive another major update in the next iOS version. Although we don’t notice it in the Netherlands and Belgium yet, Siri has already become much smarter with iOS 18. The English version of the voice assistant has been expanded with many more language models.
Siri will also receive screen awareness and deeper integration into apps from iOS 18. It is not yet clear when the improved version of Siri will become available in the Netherlands and Belgium. This may happen with iOS 18.4, an update that will be released in April. In iOS 19, the improved version of Siri will once again be one of the most important functions, but we still have to wait a long time for that. According to rumors, that improvement will only come with iOS 19.4 or later.
Siri much smarter
The usually reliable Apple analyst Mark Gurman predicts that Siri will be expanded in iOS 19 with even more advanced language models. This makes the voice assistant increasingly resemble ChatGPT. With the new language models, Siri understands more complicated questions and makes it possible to have natural conversations with the voice assistant. That is a big difference with the current generation of Siri.
According to Gurman, Apple will present the improved version of Siri at WWDC in June this year. He describes Siri as an important feature of iOS 19, but emphasizes that the feature will not be available until much later. We can’t expect the more extensive version of Siri until the spring of 2026. The release in the European Union may be even later, as is now the case with Apple Intelligence.
Important functions come later and later
Apple will therefore not release the most important function of iOS 19 when it is released in September, but only in the spring of 2026. That is striking, because that would be the second year in a row that the new iOS generation has gone without the most important features for months. must do. For example, Apple released iOS 18 on September 16, but Apple Intelligence is still missing in the European Union.
It seems that the release of the new iOS generation in September is no longer the biggest software update of the year for the iPhone. Instead, Apple won’t release the most important feature(s) until a later interim update. That is certainly the case with iOS 18 and (if the rumors are correct) also with iOS 19. We will only know for sure in June, when Apple presents the next iOS version. Read here what else you can expect from Apple in 2025.
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