{"id":725530,"date":"2026-06-09T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725530\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:45:17","slug":"apples-ai-siri-will-be-held-back-by-aging-devices-morgan-stanley-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725530\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s AI Siri will be held back by aging devices, Morgan Stanley says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">June 9 (Reuters) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/apple\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Apple&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>&#8216;s newly introduced AI Siri will have limited use across much of \u200cthe company&#8217;s install base because older iPhones \u200clack the capabilities to run advanced AI features, Morgan Stanley said \u200bin a research note on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">More than 850 million iPhones are incapable of running basic Apple Intelligence queries, and more than 1.3 billion iPhones cannot \u200cuse advanced Siri features, \u2060the brokerage said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The long-delayed Siri overhaul was the centrepiece of Apple&#8217;s annual Worldwide \u2060Developers Conference on Monday, with the world&#8217;s most valuable smartphone maker betting on the feature to keep \u200bpace with \u200brivals including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;OpenAI&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a>&#8216;s ChatGPT, \u200bGoogle&#8217;s Gemini and Anthropic&#8217;s \u200cClaude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Selling hardware on the strength of software is challenging, Morgan Stanley cautioned, even as AI accessibility ranks among the leading drivers of <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/phones\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:smartphone;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;smartphone&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smartphone<\/a> upgrades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Siri AI is available on iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 \u200cPro Max and iPhone 16 \u200bmodels or later, according to \u200bApple&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The bottleneck \u200bfor the upgraded Siri and AI tools \u200ccomes down to chip architecture \u200band memory. \u200bUsers need 12 GB of unified memory to run the most advanced Siri features, owing \u200bto the volume \u200cof on-device processing that Apple Intelligence requires, \u200bthe brokerage said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; 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