Apple delays Siri AI on iPhone and iPad in the EU indefinitely
If you use an iPhone in the EU, the upgraded Siri coming with iOS 27 this fall won't be available to you — and Apple has no timeline for when that will change. The company announced at WWDC 2026 on June 8 that Siri AI is blocked for iPhone and iPad in the EU due to an unresolved standoff with regulators over the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Users in the US and UK get Siri AI at launch; more than 450 million EU users do not.
The regulatory deadlock
Apple and the European Commission have been negotiating for months, and every proposed solution has been rejected. Apple's most concrete offer was a concept called "Trusted System Agent" — a middle-layer mechanism that would let third-party voice assistants access the same device capabilities as Siri AI without, Apple argues, creating a security hole. The Commission said no.
EU spokesperson Thomas Regnier put it plainly, per Yahoo Finance: Apple asked for an exemption from DMA interoperability obligations, regulators refused, and the decision to withhold Siri AI from EU iPhones is Apple's alone.
Apple's counter-argument, laid out on Apple Newsroom, is that the DMA's "extreme interpretation" would force iOS to give any third-party AI system near-unlimited access to the device — exposing user data in ways Private Cloud Compute and on-device processing are specifically designed to prevent. The Commission rejects that framing as a way to dodge platform openness rules.
What's blocked, what isn't
The block applies to iPhone and iPad only. Siri AI will still arrive in the EU on macOS 27 and visionOS 27 — neither of which falls under the same DMA gatekeeping rules. watchOS 27 is also blocked in the EU because the new Siri on Apple Watch depends on a paired iPhone running Siri AI.
EU-based developers are caught too: they can't test or integrate Siri AI features in their apps, even in iOS 27 betas.
No fix in sight
This isn't the first time EU iPhone users have waited. First-generation Apple Intelligence launched in the US in October 2024 and didn't reach the EU until March 2025 — a five-month gap. That delay was eventually resolved with a compliance tweak. This time, Craig Federighi confirmed Apple continues negotiations but offered no concrete pathway forward.
The gap between what EU and US iPhone owners can do is widening, and right now no one has a date for when it closes.