Did you realize that at WWDC 2026, the keynote felt a little different? Instead of Apple going on and on about the various new features and improvements in iOS 27, Apple instead focused on Apple Intelligence and the major overhaul of Siri. But why did it take Apple so long to give us a Siri that actually works? Speaking to members of the press, Apple explained why the Siri overhaul in iOS 27 took as long as it did.
iOS 27 Siri overhaul delay explained
According to 9to5Mac, whose editor-in-chief Chance Miller was in attendance, they got to find out why the Siri overhaul took so long. This explanation was given by Mike Rockwell, who took on leadership for Siri last year. According to Rockwell, he revealed that Apple initially planned to release an incremental upgrade to Siri last year. However, they ultimately decided to pass on that.
He said, “Last year, we had actually built a first version of this that was sort of incremental on top of the original Siri that added tool calling, and we had it working. But we didn’t feel it was really delivering on the vision and the experience that we wanted to do.” Rockwell also said that there was a design that had more extensive changes, so they decided to go with that.
Instead, as Rockwell explained, they decided to give Siri an overhaul for iOS 27. “So we went back, and we rebuilt Siri from the ground up, literally, tore it to the ground, rebuilt it from the ground up, on top of the incredible models which Amar just told us about. It allowed us to build a profoundly more capable Siri. So it’s a Siri that has its own application, it’s natively multimodal, it’s privacy from the ground up.”
Was it the right call?
For the most part, we think it was the right call. An incremental Siri upgrade in 2025 might not have felt enough. Going for something more dramatic to highlight the differences seems to have landed better.
However, and this is a big however, it remains to be seen how the overhauled Siri functions in real-life. At WWDC 2026, Apple made it a point to show Siri working on actual phones. This is versus past events where Apple would simulate certain features. At the very least, this demonstrates that Siri does seem to do as advertised.
Now, whether or not users will find these changes meaningful remains to be seen. iOS 27 is expected to be released later this year. However, the company is planning a public beta in the near future, so we should be able to have a better idea then.
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