“Hey, Siri” soon to be replaced by a simple “Siri” on iPhone?

With Siri, Apple offers avoice assistant ideally integrated with all its other services. We can ask it to tell us about the weather, send an email on the fly or even turn off a HomeKit bulb without touching the screen. To do this, today it is enough to pronounce the sentence “Dis, Siri” after choosing to activate permanent voice recognition. Many refuse, for fear of beinglistened to in secret again by the apple company.

But soon, all this could change. In any case, that’s what the journalist says.Mark Gurman(once is not customary) in its usual weekly newsletter,Power On. We discover that Apple is preparing a significant improvement of the program, so that we can easily challenge it by simply saying “Siri“. We can then easily guess the significant efforts that this may require in terms of configuration, given all the machine learning already acquired so far.

No precise timetable at the moment

Gurman, who does not say much more, estimates that this change could arrive on our iOS mobiles by2023or 2024. Time for Cupertino to update all its apps accordingly, because many of them rely on Siri to offer ever more practical features. Until then, it is primarily the employees of the Californian group who will test the new product internally in order to gather enough data to develop a stable version.

With this, the analyst ofBloombergexplains that Apple also wants to further integrate Siri with apps fromthird party developers. Likewise, it would be a question of making the voice assistant more efficient in order to provide clearer answers to users. Excellent news for them, because it is notnot uncommon to see the competition (Google Assistant, especially) obtain better results.

Already improvements this year

Now over ten years old, Siri's artificial intelligence has also been given arevisited version for Apple TVin 2022. This integrates the voice assistant into the bottom left corner of the screen, making it a little less invasive. Not to mentioneverything the major update to iOS 16 brought, now available to everyone.