Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple’s planned push into the smart home market will be delayed until 2026, a direct effect of the decision to delay the major update to Siri. Apple had originally planned to release the Siri update with iOS 18.4, which was released last week, but the company rescheduled the release after some internal discussions about Siri’s development (or lack of it).
This new report of a delay follows several others. In the first half of March, Gurman reported on the delay but did not offer a timeframe, though he implied it could be oushed back to the fall. Aimilarly, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported in March that the smart home hub may ship in the third quarter of this year, a rescheduling after a planned unveiling at WWDC25 along with iOS 19.
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