Apple unveiled a rebuilt Siri at WWDC 2026 and confirmed in the same breath that EU users won't be getting it.
The new assistant - the centerpiece of Apple Intelligence and a marquee feature of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 - will not ship in the European Union when those updates arrive later this year. Apple said it spent several months submitting proposals to EU regulators under the Digital Markets Act and had each one rejected. Unlike the first delay, which at least arrived with a vague timeline, this announcement comes with nothing.
The missing date is the telling part. A company that believed a deal was close would give itself a target. No timeline means either Apple and EU regulators are further apart than before, or Apple has decided the fight isn't worth the engineering cost of compliance. Either way, European iPhone owners - who paid the same price as everyone else - are left with hardware that ships AI features everywhere except where they live.
Apple has reliably cast the DMA as a threat to user security and experience. That framing is also useful cover for resisting any obligation to open its AI stack to third parties. Regulators, apparently, have noticed.