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Apple Intelligence might take a backseat at WWDC25

D. Griffin Jones — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Apple doesn’t have as many Apple Intelligence features to announce this year at WWDC25 — here's what's coming.

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Apple isn’t as far behind in AI as some might fear

Ed Hardy — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:25:43 +0000

Apple reportedly made significant progress in an internally developed AI chatbot to the point that it’s comparable with ChatGPT.

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New smart speaker looks just like HomePod 2 but tops it

David Snow — Mon, 19 May 2025 13:15:48 +0000

The new WiiM Sound smart speaker isn't just a HomePod 2 lookalike -- it could be a major Apple competitor.

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Apple might finally let you ditch Siri for a smarter assistant

Rajesh Pandey — Mon, 19 May 2025 10:56:43 +0000

Thanks to the EU, Apple will seemingly allow you to replace Siri with another digital voice assistant on the iPhone.

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How to claim your settlement from Siri class-action lawsuit

D. Griffin Jones — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000

The Apple Siri class-action lawsuit settlement means most Apple users are entitled to receive up to $100.

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Hey, Siri: Welcome your new Vision Pro overlords

David Snow — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 17:28:34 +0000

With Mike Rockwell now in charge, key members of Apple's Vision Pro team takes on the crucial Siri overhaul to catch up with competitors.

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7 everyday tasks that Apple Watch makes easier

Ed Hardy — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:00:18 +0000

For certain tasks, an Apple Watch beats an iPhone. Try these often-overlooked Apple Watch pros to get more from your smartwatch.

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AI-enhanced Siri could launch sooner than expected

Ed Hardy — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:03:00 +0000

Mark your calendars for the Siri release date. The wait for exciting AI enhancements for iPhone users might be shorter than feared.

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Top 6 Siri tricks and features (without Apple Intelligence)

D. Griffin Jones — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:00:31 +0000

Believe it or not, there are actually quite a few helpful tricks Siri can do — besides setting timers and sending texts.

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Automate your iPhone by voice alone via Vocal Shortcuts

D. Griffin Jones — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:00:40 +0000

Vocal Shortcuts let you control your phone by speaking a command out loud. Think “Hey Siri,” but for running your own custom actions.

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A tale of two Airs: iPad and MacBook reviews [The CultCast]

Lewis Wallace — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:00:30 +0000

This week on Cult of Mac's podcast: Griffin goes deep on M3 iPad Air and M4 MacBook Air after toiling on his hands-on reviews.

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New Siri boss tasked with turning around floundering AI upgrade [Updated]

Ed Hardy — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:18:12 +0000

Development of the AI-enhanced Siri is now under the management of an Apple executive who already launched a major product for the company.

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Nobody’s getting fired over Apple’s Siri debacle … yet

Ed Hardy — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:10:54 +0000

The delay of AI-enhanced Siri is impacting Apple’s reputation. We have an update on development of this critical project.

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Apple’s iPad-like smart home hub gets significantly delayed

Ed Hardy — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:13:17 +0000

Learn why the Apple smart home hub launch got pushed back — a blow for iPhone and Mac users who are fans of home automation.

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When it comes to making Siri smarter, the struggle is real

Lewis Wallace — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:13:30 +0000

Apple says the smarter Siri promised at WWDC24 is delayed, confirming previous rumors. We might see promised upgrades "in the coming year."

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Smarter Siri might not fully arrive until 2027

Rajesh Pandey — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 06:35:31 +0000

Apple's struggles with Siri continues, with a smarter, fully AI-powered version of the voice assistant now unlikely to arrive before 2027.

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Humane’s Ai Pin bombed because voice control is (mostly) a terrible idea

Ed Hardy — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:40:35 +0000

Apple and other device makers should learn a crucial lesson from the failure of the canceled Humane Ai Pin: Voice control can be annoying.

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Siri’s AI revamp faces possible delay

Ed Hardy — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 15:40:03 +0000

Apple may be forced to postpone the launch of the much-anticipated AI-enhanced Siri due to development problems.

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Bad news for Apple AR glasses, good news for CarPlay and Siri [The CultCast]

Lewis Wallace — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:00:41 +0000

This week on Cult of Mac's podcast: Apple pulls the plug on a secret AR glasses project. What does this mean for Vision Pro?

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Apple pulls out the big guns to fix Siri and Apple Intelligence

David Snow — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:38:54 +0000

In a new move to catch up with AI competitors, Apple taps software veteran to fix Siri and Apple Intelligence. She has a good track record.

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Apple emphasizes Siri’s privacy-first approach after settling lawsuit

Rajesh Pandey — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:56:59 +0000

After agreeing to settle a Siri class action privacy lawsuit, Apple has issued an article highlighting the voice assistant's privacy measures.

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Apple agrees to settle Siri privacy lawsuit for $95 million

David Snow — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:10:33 +0000

In a new settlement, Apple agreed to pay $95 million over complaints that Siri inadvertently recorded users when unintentionally activated.

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Apple in 2025: 5 things that could wow us

Rajesh Pandey — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:00:26 +0000

Apple will launch several products in 2025, but these are the 5 things from the company that could wow us.

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10 best ways to actually save iPhone battery life

D. Griffin Jones — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 14:00:13 +0000

It can be hard figuring out what advice will actually save your iPhone battery life and what’s basically tech superstition.

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Everything new in iOS 18.2: Apple Intelligence upgrades and more

D. Griffin Jones — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 14:00:29 +0000

iOS 18.2 drops a huge number of new features onto the iPhone with more Apple Intelligence, Mail categories, daily sudoku and many others.

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After Ai Pin flops, Humane wants to put its CosmOS everywhere

David Snow — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:29:22 +0000

After the disastrously poor reception of its Ai Pin wearable, Humane CosmOS software arrives to spread AI across devices.

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Finally, Apple makes fixing Siri a priority [The CultCast]

Lewis Wallace — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 21:45:10 +0000

This week on Cult of Mac's podcast: With a slightly smarter Siri in iOS 18.4, new rumor says Apple might finally fix Siri ... in 2026!

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iOS 19 could debut a more conversational LLM Siri

Rajesh Pandey — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:11:02 +0000

Apple is working on a more conversation Siri, like Gemini Live and ChatGPT's voice mode, for iOS 19 next year.

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Apple Music Classical adds CarPlay and Siri support

David Snow — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:46:05 +0000

With a new app update, now you can strike up Apple Music Classical on your CarPlay screen and tell maestro Siri what to play.

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How to use the (somewhat) new and improved Siri

D. Griffin Jones — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:00:34 +0000

Apple Intelligence brings the long-awaited new Siri, but we don't get all the features yet. Here's what you can try now.

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Today in Apple history: iPhone 4s opens for Siri-ous preorders

Luke Dormehl — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:40:27 +0000

On October 7, 2011, two days after the death of Steve Jobs, Apple opened iPhone 4s preorders. The next-gen phone adds Siri to the mix.

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Today in Apple history: Siri debuts on iPhone 4s

Luke Dormehl — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:15:15 +0000

On October 4, 2011, Apple introduced the world to its intelligent voice assistant. The Siri launch marked the culmination of a long-term goal.

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Apple smart display with Apple Intelligence coming in 2025

Rajesh Pandey — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:29:17 +0000

Apple is working on a new, low-end smart display (code-named J490) running homeOS and Apple Intelligence support for launch in 2025.

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How to stop Siri from randomly activating all the damn time

D. Griffin Jones — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:20:02 +0000

Siri often interrupts a conversation, meeting or show when you haven't asked for anything. Here's how to deactivate Siri on your devices.

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Today in Apple history: Martin Scorsese ad makes Siri look like a superstar

Luke Dormehl — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:06:14 +0000

On July 23, 2012, a new Apple ad showed legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese giving Siri a go. It was fun, but not entirely realistic.

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iOS 18’s smarter Siri won’t arrive until 2025

Rajesh Pandey — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 08:09:42 +0000

Your complex commands can wait. We reportedly won't experience the smarter Siri on iPhone until iOS 18.4 arrives next spring.

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Watch Apple’s WWDC24 keynote in just 90 seconds

D. Griffin Jones — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:11:11 +0000

If you don’t have time to watch Apple's full hour and 45-minute WWDC24 keynote, here it is in just 90 seconds.

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AI-powered Siri is the new face of Apple Intelligence

Ed Hardy — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:10:20 +0000

Find out how artificial intelligence is transforming the Siri voice assistant into a tool that iPhone, Mac and iPad users actually want.

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Nervous iPhone users won’t have to use Apple’s new AI features

Ed Hardy — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 14:25:14 +0000

Apple reportedly will add an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI to iPhone and Mac. But users of these devices won't be forced to use it.

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Siri could let you control individual apps in iOS 18

Rajesh Pandey — Fri, 31 May 2024 04:37:44 +0000

An underlying AI upgrade could make Siri a lot smarter in iOS 18, letting you to control individual apps through voice commands.

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iPhone 16 rumors, M4 iPad Pro raves and … Siri+?!? [The CultCast]

Lewis Wallace — Sat, 25 May 2024 17:00:29 +0000

This week on Cult of Mac's podcast: The M4 iPad Pro is fabulous. The iPhone 16 colors might prove underwhelming! And Siri might get smart.

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Siri could get a more conversational voice in iOS 18

Rajesh Pandey — Sun, 19 May 2024 13:40:26 +0000

Siri could get a lot smarter and useful in iOS 18, with Apple reportedly working on adding "proactive intelligence" features to it.

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Siri’s ready for an AI upgrade [The CultCast]

Lewis Wallace — Sat, 18 May 2024 18:30:43 +0000

This week on Cult of Mac's podcast: With AI-powered features reportedly coming in iOS 18, a Siri revamp sounds possible -- and promising!

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OpenAI’s amazing GPT-4o could be the next Siri

Ed Hardy — Tue, 14 May 2024 20:20:28 +0000

Take a look at OpenAI GPT-4o, an AI chatbot that's remarkably humanlike. It's possibly coming to iOS and macOS.

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Apple using AI to make Siri more useful

Ed Hardy — Fri, 10 May 2024 19:45:13 +0000

A broad outline of Apple's plan to improve the Siri voice assistant with artificial intelligence leaked out Friday.

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Apple’s Ferret-UI helps AI use your iPhone

David Snow — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:02:32 +0000

Apple's new research paper on Ferret-UI shows advances on helping AI like Siri understand and work with small screens like your iPhone's.

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Apple’s reorganization efforts within Siri team leading to layoffs

Rajesh Pandey — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 07:23:44 +0000

Apple's Data Operations Annotations team in San Diego is reportedly shutting down and merging with the Texas team.

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Ready or not, here comes Apple Vision Pro! [The CultCast]

Lewis Wallace — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 18:00:41 +0000

Is the Apple Vision Pro headset ready for its close-up? On this week's Cult of Mac podcast, we muse about Vision Pro's possible uses.

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How does Apple use AI and machine learning?

David Snow — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:00:08 +0000

Apple seeks to exploit AI opportunities, taking on challenges with a more intuitive approach than competitors.

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How to set up HomePod and HomePod mini

Charlie Sorrel — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 00:50:00 +0000

It couldn't be easier to set up HomePod or HomePod mini. Learn how to get started, use Siri, and exclude your kids' music from your listening history.

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iPhone 16’s superior microphones could help deliver better AI-powered Siri experience

Rajesh Pandey — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:26:27 +0000

Apple could use enhanced mics on iPhone 16 with an improved signal-to-noise ratio to make interactions with AI-powered Siri better.

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Just how hot are those new M3 MacBook Pros? [The CultCast]

Lewis Wallace — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 18:00:39 +0000

This week on Cult of Mac's podcast: M3 MacBook Pros tests reveal the performance-crushing effects of thermal throttling and skimpy RAM.

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iOS 17.2 beta 3: All the features and changes

Rajesh Pandey — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 05:10:02 +0000

The third iOS 17.2 beta is here, with some minor enhancements and changes. Find out about all the changes in the latest iOS 17.2 beta here.

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Apple could add AI smarts to Siri in iOS 18

Rajesh Pandey — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 15:49:54 +0000

Apple executives are working on bringing generative AI to Siri and other system apps as a part of iOS 18 next year.

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iOS 17 forces woman named ‘Siri’ to change her name

Ed Hardy — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:35:19 +0000

An Edinburgh-based fitness instructor named Siri had to pick a new name because of a change in iOS 17.

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