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iOS 18 Features: Apple announced a range of Apple Intelligence features at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024. These included AI enhancements for Siri and system apps. We already have a timeline for a possible rollout of the features this fall and early 2025. To add more insights, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has now hinted these features will roll out "over several months".

The first releases of iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia will get Apple Intelligence features in preview in American English on limited devices. Gurman added some features that may be available via the waitlist. The journalist also added features that will arrive for Siri this year and 2025.

Also Read: Apple Intelligence With ChatGPT Support, AI-Powered Siri Announced At WWDC 2024; Check All AI Features, Availability And Supported Devices

Siri AI Features: Not Arriving Until 2025

Siri will gain the ability to explore things on an iPhone contextually and perform operations. The semantic indexing option will allow Siri to understand the context of a device's data. Moreover, control over apps is also slated to arrive next year.

On-screen awareness capabilities to understand things on the device will also arrive soon. Support for additional languages will reportedly not debut until 2025. Moreover, the much-hyped ChatGPT integration may also get delayed.

Siri Features: Arriving This Year

The new version of Siri in iOS 18 will get a new interface and allow natural conversation. The voice assistant will also understand the command even when users misspeak. It will also gain an improved understanding of Apple devices. A new "Type to Siri" will allow users to chat with the Apple assistant via text. Meanwhile, email categorisation in the Mail app and Swift Assist for Xcode are also rumoured to get delayed.

Also Read: WWDC 2024: iOS 18 Introduced With Apple Intelligence, Home Screen Customisations And More; Check Features, Supported iPhones

A few more non-AI features may not debut in the first stable build and release likely between October and December. These will include features in the Home app, the option to drag and drop files across Apple devices, spatial video editing and an expanded Mac Virtual Display mode for Apple Vision Pro, among other features, that may not arrive this year.