New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- To say that AI has been a pain point for Apple over the last two years or so would be an understatement. The company lagged behind the competition in the unveiling of its AI features, which it dubbed Apple Intelligence, and many of them were still not ready by the time its iPhone 16 series went to shelves last year.

​While other AI features made their way to Apple users with a delay, the company's revamped Siri did not. The modernized version of Siri was expected to be rolled out with the iOS 18.4 update last year, but that never happened, and the company later admitted that the rollout would be delayed by a year or so.

​Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi admitted earl...