{"id":991793,"date":"2026-02-13T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991793"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:52:08","slug":"new-siri-not-ready-yet-apple-may-push-google-gemini-powered-ai-features-to-ios-26-5-or-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/13\/new-siri-not-ready-yet-apple-may-push-google-gemini-powered-ai-features-to-ios-26-5-or-later\/","title":{"rendered":"New Siri not ready yet: Apple may push Google Gemini-powered AI features to iOS 26.5 or later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has pushed back key AI features that were supposed to ship next month with iOS 26.4, after internal testing revealed the revamped Siri still isn&#8217;t ready for prime time, Bloomberg reports. The new Siri\u2014powered by Google&#8217;s Gemini models and built on a fresh architecture codenamed Linwood\u2014was meant to finally deliver capabilities Apple first promised in June 2024. That&#8217;s not happening on schedule. Engineers have now been directed to test the features on iOS 26.5 instead, which isn&#8217;t expected until May. Some capabilities may not land until iOS 27 arrives in September.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg&#8217;s sources say the issues are pretty straightforward: Siri frequently mishandles queries, responds too slowly, and has notable accuracy problems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has pushed back key AI features that were supposed to ship next month with iOS 26.4, after internal testing revealed the revamped Siri still isn&#8217;t ready for prime time, Bloomberg reports. The new Siri\u2014powered by Google&#8217;s Gemini models and built on a fresh architecture codenamed Linwood\u2014was meant to finally deliver capabilities Apple first promised in June 2024. That&#8217;s not happening on schedule. Engineers have now been directed to test the features on iOS 26.5 instead, which isn&#8217;t expected until May. Some capabilities may not land until iOS 27 arrives in September. Bloomberg&#8217;s sources say the issues are pretty straightforward: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}