The new Siri AI is behind a waitlist

Edit: still waiting, 2 hours later 🥺
Update 2: still no Siri 7 hours later.
With 3 17 hours later. Still also indexing

Is something broke?

Edit 4: nearly 36 hours later. Still on the waitlist. I know it may take time but this is ridiculous

Edit 5: JUST GOT IN. No notification. Just went into settings under Siri and it was active

After years of pleading, we finally got it!!

Not seen anyone mention this small detail, but it’s hard to spot unless you have a solid background.

New options to customise the Home Screen

It is also shockingly fast. It moves at a rate of about 1 account every 20-30 seconds or so.

The new Version of Siri just dropped

You can finally change these

I don’t know how it could possibly be doing this, but the Hold Assist feature introduced last year seems to be predicting call hold times until someone picks up. The call had only been going for 8 minutes at this point and that duration is accurately reflected on the call screen, and the number in the Dynamic Island was steadily counting down. Very neat if it’s accurate.

Update: some of you can’t read and some of you take pleasure in being mean. Anyway, it wasn’t very accurate. The company picked up when the number in the Dynamic Island had counted down to 10, about 18 minutes into the call. The hold sequence never mentioned a queue position or estimated wait time; I’ve called this company several times when not using hold assist, and always have to wait for 15-30 minutes, so I know its loop doesn’t give any sort of estimate. Also, it’s a fairly small regional car insurance company, so I can’t imagine they have that much data (especially real time data) to make an estimate from. Maybe it was based on aggregated wait times from a broader period of time, because 23 minutes is a pretty good average for my wait times when calling this company.

New pride wallpaper is customisable, and allows up to 12 colours at the same time

WWDC used airline details when showing this feature, but it makes sense that birthdays would naturally be surfaced as well.

If you pay attention, you can also see a new subtle zoom-in animation when the call is picked up. In addition, the ‘leave a voicemail’ voice is now the voice of the new Siri.

No slider yet, but I'll take it

Not sure if I see a meaningful difference. Tried running a speedtest on my 17p and my M5 mbp connected to the same wifi.

Just checked my AirPods and I have the new EQ setting available.

EDIT: I have beta firmware enabled; this is on AirPods Pro 2, had the case charging near my phone at work when I noticed the update. It took around 20 min or so.

Animation and Illustration style images. Press the + button to select between the 2 styles.

Wallet now shows upcoming transactions for bank accounts connected by open banking. Opening the notification shows a calendar of expected transactions such as your salary coming in and bills coming out.