To promote the merits of Apple Intelligence and the iPhone 16, Apple has communicated a lot - including through advertisements - about new, much more advanced Siri functions. The assistant must indeed be able to integrate with applications and use specific functions, understand the user's usage by examining the smartphone screen, or even pick up information from applications.
Siri is treading water
Concretely, these "personalized Siri functions" must allow the user to ask Siri can ask her assistant things like: "Show me the files Eric sent me last week", "What's my passport number" (if it was photographed), or "Remind me of the books my brother recommended yesterday". They can also allow Siri to move a file from one location to another. another, to edit an image and send it, or to get directions and share the arrival time with a correspondent.
As for understanding the context, Siri is about being able to answer a question about a photo displayed on the screen, or to add contact information to a card after receiving it via Messages. In short, it became possible to perform miracles like in this advertisement for iPhone 16:
All of this won't be available for a while. These features, presented at WWDC in June 2024, were supposed to appear in iOS 18.4, then iOS 18.5. Now, they've been pushed back indefinitely. Apple has indeed stated that "the more personalized version of Siri (...) is taking longer than expected." However, these features are expected to roll out "over the next year." That's not particularly encouraging!
Siri was already lagging far behind rival assistants like Google Assistant and Alexa. The advent of generative AI and much smarter and more conversational chatbots have made Siri completely obsolete. Suffice to say that the future version of the assistant with large language models, which would put it on a par with the competition, is not for tomorrow.
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