Siri features delayed once again
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Apple reportedly pushing back Gemini-powered Siri features beyond iOS 26.4
- Apple releases iOS 26.3 for iPhone, here's what's new
- Hands-on: iOS 26.3 changes and features [Video]
- Apple Music doubles the penalty for fraudulent streaming
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Thursday, February 12, 26. I'm your host, Chance Miller. |
| 0:09.4 | Leading off today, despite inking a deal with Google to use Gemini AI as the brains behind the |
| 0:14.8 | upgraded Siri, Apple is reportedly facing internal challenges in getting the final product ready for primetime. |
| 0:22.6 | Apple first announced a more capable version of Siri at WWDC in 2024, but now Bloomberg reports |
| 0:29.9 | on delays that could stretch this launch into iOS 27 this fall. |
| 0:35.5 | Bloomberg says that after planning to include the new capabilities in iOS 26.4, which was |
| 0:41.1 | slated to launch in March, Apple is now working to spread those features out over future versions. |
| 0:47.4 | This would mean possibly postponing at least some features until iOS 26.5 and iOS 26.7, which comes out in September. |
| 0:58.0 | Bloomberg notes that while Apple hadn't promised a ship date publicly more specific than this year, |
| 1:03.8 | the company had been eyeing iOS 26.4 around March as the goal. One feature especially likely |
| 1:10.7 | to slip is the expanded ability for Siri to |
| 1:13.6 | tap in to personal data. This would give Siri access to everything on your iPhone so you could |
| 1:19.6 | ask it highly personalized questions and it would be able to find the answer for you. The report also |
| 1:25.6 | says that voice-based control of in-app actions is running behind. |
| 1:30.1 | The reasoning for the delays is that testing inside Apple recently uncovered fresh problems with |
| 1:35.8 | the software. For example, Apple's voice assistant doesn't properly process queries or can take |
| 1:41.6 | too long to handle requests. |
| 1:50.7 | Testers also have reported accuracy issues, as well as a bug that causes Siri to cut users off when they're speaking too quickly. So the three features we were expecting as part of iOS 26.4 |
| 1:56.7 | were personal context, in-app actions, and on-screen awareness. |
| 2:01.8 | Based on this reporting from Bloomberg, personal context and in-app actions are two features likely delayed. |
| 2:08.6 | This leaves on-screen awareness as the one feature presumably still on-track to launch as part of iOS 26.4. |
| 2:16.8 | Next up today, fraudulent streaming is a long-running problem in the music business. |
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