Apple: no connected screen for 2025 because of Siri's delays

The rumors of the past few months are coming to a Accentuation of interest Apple for home automation. According to previous declarations by Mark Gurman, this would involve the launch in 2025 of a first connected screen, in the style of the Amazon Echo Show or Google Nest Hub. A project braked by a major obstacle: Siri.

Siri undermines Apple's first connected screen

Through his last newsletter Power on From April 6, 2025, Mark Gurman reports that Apple “Consider a postponement until 2026” For its connected screen, i.e. the “Period at which Siri's features are supposed to arrive”.

A situation that is understood, since the system was to rely on Apple Intelligence and in particular Siri's new capacities to respond to the various user requests. The launch of the connected screen would therefore logically depend on The finalization of Siri's new capacitieswith part of the functions pushed by the company this winter and the rest next year.

We are thus far from the arrival of this product during the month of March 2025, a period initially envisaged by Apple after Mark Gurman. He then mentioned A launch in Aprilor later in the year, before his declaration of this weekend.

Bloomberg journalist, however, believes that this connected screen is a key step for Apple in home automation, aiming “To prepare the ground for greater things at Apple”like a future product equipped with a robotic arm.

In the meantime, Apple should discreetly return to home automation in 2025 with the HomePod Mini 2. It remains to be seen whether the speaker will benefit from an advanced Siri version thanks to a good dose of AI, or if the assistant's abilities will still remain limited.