Apple Already Testing iOS 19.4 After Delaying Personalized Siri Features                                    

As we know that the Apple iOS 19.4 is most likely to launch in March or April next year, iOS 19.4 still have time of around a year from public release. Apple, every year, works on two major iOS updates as per their tradition, one for the fall and another for the spring. Based on recent analytics, internal testing is already going on for iOS 19.0 and iOS 19.4, which shows it is still in the development phase.

Apple has started the development of iOS 19.4, after postponing the launch of its personalized Siri capabilities, now we can expect it may arrive anytime at next year.

Apple shows its personalized Siri upgrades first time at the WWDC 2024 keynote last June 2024. As per the plan, these improvements needed to be released along with iOS 18.4 last month, but now it might launch along with iOS 19 on next year. According to multiple reputable Apple insiders and analysts, the features may not roll out until 2026, So we can expect that it might launch along with iOS 19.4 on next year.

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However, as per a recent report by The New York Times, Apple is most likely to introduce a redesigned Siri, most probably this fall. If it happened then, the updated features will launch with iOS 19 in September or with iOS 19.1 in October.

Meanwhile, users can expect the personalized Siri enhancements to launch along with iOS 19.4, which is already under development at Apple.

When the enhanced version of Siri launches then we can expect it will bring powerful upgrades like personalized context awareness, on-screen recognition, and more control within the app. At WWDC 2024, Apple explains this by showing Siri respond to a question about by aksing a user's mother's flight and lunch plans, then Siri provides relevant details from the Mail and Messages apps.

MacRumors’ internal logs reveal that a Apple’s engineering team started working on the iOS 19.4 while Development was initiated last month.

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