As revealed by the well-known tech journalist, Gurman, the AI-powered Siri will not arrive immediately with the release of iOS 18. Apple plans to start testing in January of the next year and expects to officially launch this innovative feature in iOS 18.4, leaving users with nearly nine months of anticipation.
Looking back at the release process of iOS 17.4, we can reasonably speculate that the official release of iOS 18.4 might be set in the blooming month of March, when users will be able to personally experience the transformative changes brought by the Siri AI upgrade.
It's worth noting that the powerful performance of Apple Intelligence requires higher hardware specifications, so this intelligent experience will be exclusively available to iPhone users with 8GB of RAM, specifically the iPhone 15 Pro series and above.
This decision also reveals the high resource demand of Apple Intelligence, which even indirectly promoted the decision to include 8GB RAM in the entire iPhone 16 lineup, ensuring that every new model can run this cutting-edge technology smoothly.