Apple Delays ‘Larger-Than-Usual’ iOS 19 Features – Here’s Why

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple has apparently postponed a large number of iOS 19 features for a later iOS 19.4 release, perhaps delaying their release until spring 2026.

This isn’t unusual, and it has previously seen Apple use this strategy with Apple Intelligence and iOS 18, with the updated Siri not arriving until iOS 18.4 next spring, despite being revealed at WWDC24 alongside all of the other iOS 18 features.

Gurman did not specify which features had been postponed, but he did state that the features delayed go beyond the new LLM Siri that he reported on last week:

I’m told that a larger-than-usual number of features scheduled for iOS 19 (beyond the new Siri) are already postponed until spring 2026 (when iOS 19.4 debuts).

As a reminder, Apple is purportedly developing a new ‘LLM Siri’ for iOS 19, which will “handle tasks in a way that’s closer to ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.” However, it will not be available until several months before the release of iOS 20. (Feel old yet?)

Apple is likely to reveal iOS 19 during its annual developer conference, WWDC, in early June 2025. The initial public version will then arrive to customers in September, coinciding with the debut of the iPhone 17 models, which are believed to contain an entirely new form factor – the iPhone 17 Air.

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