Overview
- Apple submitted a $250 million settlement to a California judge to resolve U.S. lawsuits over delayed Siri AI features.
- The deal, filed as case 5:25-cv-02668-NW, targets compensation for U.S. buyers of iPhone 16 models or iPhone 15 Pro purchased between the WWDC 2024 announcement and Apple’s March 2025 delay admission.
- Apple denies wrongdoing in the agreement, and the court must still approve the settlement and set per‑customer payouts.
- Apple delayed a personalized, context‑aware Siri in March 2025 after saying it was not reliable enough, while rolling out smaller tools like live translation and text correction.
- Reporting says Apple is testing an iOS 27 “Extensions” system that lets users pick external AI models for Siri, writing tools, and image generation, with Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude named as early partners and a dedicated App Store section planned.