3 New Siri Features Coming to Your iPhone in Early 2025

Apple is making Siri smarter and more helpful by rolling out significant updates in 2025.
New features like Personal Context and Onscreen Awareness will improve how Siri understands your device and tasks.
These updates will arrive in early 2025 with iOS 18.4, with even bigger changes expected later in the year.

Apple is working on turning Siri into a smarter and more capable assistant with major updates planned for 2025. Building on the Apple Intelligence introduced last year, these updates will focus on new features like understanding your personal context and recognizing what’s on your screen. This could help Siri keep pace with rapidly advancing competitors like Google Assistant and Gemini.

Siri’s Major Upgrades for 2025

Apple already announced new Siri features at WWDC, although most of them have yet to arrive. We expect these features to be added with the iOS 18.4 update on supported iPhones. Details of these features, including personal context, onscreen awareness, and new app actions, are provided below.

1. Personal Context

Imagine Siri remembering your conversations and anticipating your needs. That’s the power of Personal Context, a new feature coming to iOS 18.4. This feature allows Siri to remember things like your recent conversations, appointments, and any other information you’ve stored to offer more personalized help.

For example, if you’re looking for your flight details, you can ask Siri, “When is my flight?” and it will find the information from your recent emails or messages. If you’re discussing dinner plans with a friend, you could later ask Siri “What time did we decide to meet?” and it would pull the information from your messages.

This aims to make Siri more intuitive by giving it the ability to remember and reference personal data to better assist you. However, this does raise privacy concerns. Apple is likely to emphasize on-device processing and user controls to ensure your personal data remains protected. Let’s see how Apple addresses these concerns with this feature.

2. Onscreen Awareness

With Onscreen Awareness, Siri will understand what’s currently displayed on your screen. This means Siri can now interact with the content you’re viewing, making it much easier to perform tasks without needing to explain the details.

For example, if you’re looking at your flight tickets, you can simply ask Siri, “Save these tickets to my wallet,” and it will automatically recognize and save them. Or, if someone sent you information that you want to save on your device, you can ask Siri to save it in notes, and it will know what you’re referring to.

This deeper understanding of your screen content allows Siri to assist you more efficiently by connecting with the information already on your device. Need to quickly share a photo with a friend? Just ask Siri to “send this to [friend’s name].” Looking at a restaurant menu online? Ask Siri to “make a reservation for 7 pm.” The possibilities are endless.

3. New App Actions

The New App Actions feature will allow Siri to perform more complex tasks within both Apple and third-party apps, leading to more accurate results and a smoother workflow. This means Siri will not just open apps or play songs but will also interact with them in a more advanced way.

For example, you could tell Siri, ‘Edit the photo I took yesterday, add a vintage filter, and share it with Sarah.’ Siri will then open the photo in your preferred editing app, make the adjustments, and send it to your contact. It’s like having a personal assistant that understands your apps and anticipates your needs.

Siri’s Future with iOS 19 and Beyond

Apple has even bigger plans for Siri in the upcoming iOS 19. Rumors suggest that iOS 19 will introduce large language models (LLMs) for Siri, taking its capabilities to the next level.

These LLMs are advanced AI systems that can understand and generate human-like text, and they power popular AI chatbots like ChatGPT. By integrating LLMs, Siri will be able to have more natural conversations and complete complex tasks with ease, like composing emails or summarizing articles.

Instead of just responding to your basic commands, Siri in iOS 19 will be able to engage in back-and-forth dialogues, making interactions feel more like speaking to a human. This upgrade is expected to make Siri much smarter and more competitive like Gemini and ChatGPT.

When Will These Updates Arrive On Your iPhone?

Apple’s rollout of Siri’s new features is happening in phases, with major updates scheduled throughout 2025. The first significant update is expected to arrive with iOS 18.4 in the spring of 2025. This update will bring personal context, onscreen awareness, and new app actions, features that have been awaited since the launch of the iPhone 16 series.

iOS 19 will likely be introduced at Apple’s WWDC 2025 in June with an official launch in September 2025. While we will hear about the upcoming features in June, the full functionality of the new large language model capabilities for Siri might not be fully implemented until later in 2025 or even in 2026. As these new Siri features start rolling out, it will be interesting to see how they perform, whether Apple can keep up with the competition, and if they can deliver these updates on schedule.

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