It also builds on Siri’s earlier emphasis on responsiveness and on-device audio processing, while pointing toward a broader interface role rather than isolated voice requests.
First-order effects
Apple’s reported testing centers Siri interactions in Camera, Mail, Safari, Notes, and Photos, giving its first-party apps a shared proving ground for more capable assistant behavior.
The disclosed prompts make the intended interactions more legible, but the report describes testing rather than a confirmed availability change for users.
Second-order effects
If these capabilities reach product releases, Apple’s app teams will need to expose reliable actions and context to Siri, raising the importance of consistent app-level controls.
The work creates a benchmark for the later push toward upgraded App Intents with third-party apps, where outside developers would need comparable action surfaces to remain accessible through Siri.
Third-order effects
The direction is toward an assistant becoming a cross-app action layer: users may increasingly start tasks in Siri rather than navigating each app’s interface directly.
That shift would make the quality and availability of app intents a durable competitive issue for platform owners and developers, though this report alone does not establish the scope or timing of any rollout.
The trend: This is one data point in the shift from voice assistants that answer requests to assistants that can act across a user’s app environment.
Siri's stupidity can be so astounding that it seems intentional, like it's screwing with me for kicks. I just asked Siri to “take me home” and it starts directions to my street address but *in a whole different city and state*. Not the first time. It's the most basic thing and…
We're three days away from WWDC and leaks about what Apple might announce on Monday are streaming even more. I understand that anticipation and expectations on what's going to be announced are stratospheric but you'll extinguish the fun, the surprise, and delight, if you find ou…
apple will unveil a new Siri at WWDC on Monday. It's been 13 years since Steve Jobs acquired Siri and he died soon after, unable to realize his long term vision for conversational computing. Tim Cook is an excellent CEO but he's not a visionary and he let Siri wither. Steve…
Rumors are that Apple's AI features will require iPhone 15 Pro...my beta testing device is a 14 and I typically don't run betas on my main device. This may be a conundrum.
The one thing I want Apple to use an LLM to improve in iOS: figuring out that I want to keep playing my podcast always, not the first song in my Music library, and after watching a random YouTube video.
Apple is absolutely correct in not choosing to call it ‘A.I.’ Just because the zeitgeist has, in a tragic turn of events, regressed from correct and technical verbiage into nonspecific, meaningless marketingspeak doesn't mean that Apple has to.
Here's the problem with “Apple Intelligence”... it suddenly makes Apple - the company, the BRAND - solely responsible for any mistakes made by the AI. It's not an LLM “hallucination” anymore, it's a failure of Apple Intelligence. I can't see Apple sticking its neck out like tha…
Now you've massively increased Siri's capabilities without touching the happy paths. — And you've incentivized developers *even more* to adopt AppIntents and expose more of their app's functionality to Shortcuts/Siri. — All because you said “failures go to OpenAI” instead of …
Of course OpenAI is also pretty good at function calling. You provide it a list of things YOUR software can do, and ChatGPT acts as an interface: translating a verbal request into a machine request, with all the parameters filled out correctly. — Get OpenAI to do that with Sho…
Apple's WWDC is today. One big question: how will the company maintain its commitment to privacy in an (expected) partnership with OpenAI? One way might be for Apple to say it'll process all AI queries on its own servers, rather than OpenAI's / Microsoft's.
We actually have quite a lot of details about Web Eraser - we know what it looks like, how it works etc. If Apple scraps it - we can point out what was removed, make some mock-ups, and explain why it's missing.
Crazy that Apple is overhauling Siri — and integrating new AI features at WWDC — because of Larry David and this scene from your Curb Your Enthusiasm [video]
Calling new AI features “Apple Intelligence” is way too cringe, even for Apple. If they actually call it that tomorrow, I don't know if my eyes will be able to handle how far they'll roll back into my head.
How it started vs. How it's going [Quotes his tweet from March 2023 “It would be faster for Apple to delete all the Siri code and start over with ChatGPT as a way to make Siri usable than to continue down the current path one or two barely useful features every year at WWDC."] ne…
This Fall iOS18 will see a major step forward in consumer access to an ai-powered agent. Siri is apparently getting major upgrades, and the applied AI will be able to help with so much more. This trains consumers. Who train the system. https://appleinsider.com/...