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title: "EU Siri AI facing at least a five-month delay, Gurman reports"
description: "The absolute best-case scenario is five months, and it echoes Apple Intelligence's slow arrival in Europe."
url: https://mactoreality.com/eu-siri-ai-facing-at-least-a-five-month-delay-gurman-reports
published: 2026-10-05T13:31:19Z
updated: 2026-10-05T13:31:19Z
author: "Mac to Reality Newsdesk"
category: Rumours
tags: ["Apple Intelligence & Siri","iPad","iPhone","Regulation & legal"]
publisher: Mac to Reality
ai_assisted: true
apple_heat_impact: -2
---

# EU Siri AI facing at least a five-month delay, Gurman reports

*The absolute best-case scenario is five months, and it echoes Apple Intelligence's slow arrival in Europe.*

**Key points**

- Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Siri AI is unlikely to reach iPhone and iPad in the EU for at least five months.
- EU users can already use Siri AI on the Mac, which is not a designated gatekeeper platform under the Digital Markets Act.
- Apple Intelligence followed the same path, reaching iPhone and iPad in the EU only with iOS 18.4 at the end of March 2025.
- Gurman believes Apple may be holding back the upgrade to pressure the European Commission; Apple has not given an EU timeline.

Bloomberg’s [Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter of 4 October](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-10-04/apple-s-john-ternus-leads-design-touch-screen-oled-macbook-pro-gets-lighter) that Apple’s upgraded Siri AI is unlikely to reach iPhone and iPad users in the European Union for at least five months. He calls that the “absolute best-case scenario” and warns the wait could run longer while Apple works through its compliance with the bloc’s digital rules.

The gap is specific to Apple’s mobile devices. EU users can already use Siri AI on the Mac, but not on iPhone or iPad. That split tracks the Digital Markets Act: iOS and iPadOS are designated as gatekeeper platforms under the law, while macOS is not.

## A familiar pattern

Europe has been here before. When Apple announced Apple Intelligence in June 2024, it said some features would not launch in the EU that year because of the interoperability requirements in the DMA. Apple Intelligence reached Macs in the region first, and only arrived on iPhone and iPad in the EU with iOS 18.4 at the end of March 2025.

Gurman’s reading is that the latest hold-up may not be purely technical. He suggests Apple could be withholding the upgrade on purpose to put pressure on the European Commission, betting that frustrated customers will push Brussels to soften its approach. That is his interpretation rather than anything Apple has said, and Apple has not announced an EU timeline for Siri AI on iPhone or iPad.

Either way, the practical result is the same for now: EU owners who want the new Siri on Apple hardware will have to use a Mac. The delay also keeps Siri AI at the centre of the wider question of how much Apple’s assistant can be trusted to do, which we looked at in [our analysis of Private Cloud Compute and Siri AI](https://mactoreality.com/apple-private-cloud-compute-is-ready-for-trust-siri-ai-is-not).

## Sources

- [Bloomberg: Apple’s John Ternus Leads Design; Touch-Screen OLED MacBook Pro Gets Lighter](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-10-04/apple-s-john-ternus-leads-design-touch-screen-oled-macbook-pro-gets-lighter)
- [MacRumors: EU iPhone and iPad Users Could Still Face Months-Long Wait for Siri AI](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/05/extended-eu-wait-predicted-for-siri-ai/)

*This report was written by the Mac to Reality newsdesk with AI assistance from the sources listed above, under the editorial policy at https://mactoreality.com/editorial-policy.*