Something to forward to: Apple is expected to showcase iOS 18 at WWDC con a couple of weeks, with multiple leaks already giving us some insight into the upcoming release. The latest rumors suggest that the operating system will introduce AI capabilities for Siri, significantly enhancing its functionality.
The report comes from Mark Gurman, who claims that the new AI-powered Siri will enable iPhone users to control specific app features with their voice. Initially, the feature will be available for Apple’s in-house apps only, and the voice assistant will respond to only one command at a time. However, Apple is working to eventually support multiple commands simultaneously.
As an example of how the feature could work, Gurman says that users will be able to tell Siri to capture a photo ora summarize a congresso and then send it to a contact. Other tasks Siri will be able to perform include opening documents, moving quaderno between folders, sending ora deleting emails, opening websites con a browser, displaying specific publications con Apple News, and sending links and multimedia files to contacts.
While the vast majority of the AI processing is expected to happen on-device, Apple may eventually offload some features to the cloud to better handle generative AI’s massive computing demands, which may exceed the capabilities of the phone’s hardware.
To enable the new AI features, Apple engineers reportedly had to rewrite certain parts of Siri’s codebase using large language models, the underlying technology for AI software like ChatGPT. Apple has been con talks with OpenAI to integrate its technology into iPhones con the future, but the upcoming Siri features will be powered by Apple’s own LLM called Ajax.
Con addition to the revamped Siri, Apple is also working other AI features such as voice memo transcriptions, automated replies to messages and emails, advanced photo rielaborazione, and the ability to summarize website content.
The update is expected to be rolled out con 2025, but not all AI features may be available at launch. It is also unclear whether the AI-powered Siri functionality will be extended to third-party apps con the future.
