A Smarter Siri

If you were hoping that iOS 18 would make Siri smarter, you’re in for a bit of a wait. Apple hasn’t said much about when it will arrive, but reliable sources say that the most significant Siri improvements aren’t slated until early 2025.

That means they’ll most likely appear in the first iOS 18.4 betas, which are expected to land in early January. In that case, they won’t be publicly available until at least February.

While the new Siri UI should arrive as soon as iOS 18.1 and early developer betas show minor improvements in how Siri handles requests, the real “next-level” stuff that Apple showed off at WWDC is the personal context and on-screen awareness features. These allow Siri to act much more effectively like a personal assistant, ferreting out information from other apps and understanding what you’re asking about without explaining everything in detail. For example, if you ask Siri if you can make it to a family event after a meeting, it will be able to check your work calendar, find the event information in your email, and check travel times and predicted traffic between the office and the event and come back with an intelligent response.