By John Moltz

June 13, 2025 2:00 PM PT

This Week in Apple: Let’s talk about something else

Apple gives them something to talk about, enhanced Siri is definitely maybe coming, and congratulations sickos, you can now look through windows on the iPad.

Your ass is Liquid Glass

Congratulations! We have something new to argue about other than the intersection of politics and tech or AI or App Store rules or all of the other things we’re so very tired of arguing about! Yes, almost as if the company wanted to change the subject, Apple announced a new look and feel to all its operating systems.

Turns out, some people hate it! And the beta is so buggy!

Yeah, that’s kinda how early betas work.

There is undeniably a mess of messy UI problems right now with Liquid Glass, but as someone who has been to more than one rodeo (two, I’ll have you know), I can give you the 411 on what’s going to happen: many of them will get fixed before iOS 26 ships and some… will not.

You heard it here first. Unless you heard it someplace else, which is probably likely.

But why, whyyyyyy, does Apple have to do it this wayyyyy?! Why can’t it release a refined and nigh bugless interface immediately and then make it even more perfect before it shiiiiips?!

Because it would rather make a big splash and get early adopters worked up over it as it knows those people are going to A) provide more feedback and B) probably use whatever eventually ships anyway. Also, in 2025 it would rather talk about illegible text and weird visual glitches caused by Liquid Glass than most of the other things going on.

Honestly, so would I.

Look, if we hate it, there’s always Accessibility Settings.

Spring (2026) into Siri

If you thought an enhanced Siri was a myth, well, guess again. It’s totally real and glorious and it’s coming to a device near you… just, uh, not for a little bit.

Now, open your mouths because it’s that time once again, say it with me all together now, I wanna hear it louder from the people in the back…

ACCORDING TO BLOOMBERG’S MARK GURMAN!

“Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade”

While Apple had planned to release the updated Siri in iOS 18.4, we now learn that it won’t reach users until iOS 26.4, a startling eight releases later!

(Pretty sure that math is solid. Admittedly, maybe just the math.)

Disgraceful.

Some are even seemingly raising the question (nameless bloggers who shall remain nameless) of whether or not Apple even had a working version of the enhanced Siri before last year’s WWDC keynote, suggesting maybe the whole thing was kind of aspirational in a gaseous kind of way very much resembling what one might refer to as a vapor.

Anyway, hey, how about those weird Liquid Glass glitches, huh?! Wild stuff!

I love all my children equally, just some more than others

While all the operating systems got gussied up with Liquid Glass, two seemed to be singled out for some special attention this year.

First, are you sitting down? Because, as Jason describes, iPadOS is getting windowing.

After years of trying half-measures, Apple finally put on its big person clothes and did the thing people have been asking for for almost 15 years. And it did it without just slapping macOS on the iPad, which is what frustration (and Apple using the same chips in iPads and Macs) had lately pushed people to ask for. Hopefully this will let the iPad be all it can be without having to be a Mac.

Last but not least, Apple is making big strides with visionOS this year, improving Personas to make them less like they’re living in downtown Uncanny Valley and more like they’re living in one of the suburbs of Uncanny Valley.

Hey, is “Uncanny Valley” a place in California? Because that’d make a great name for an Apple operating system.

visionOS 26 also improves geographic persistence of windows and other placed items and features other enhancements, indicating that, no, the Vision platform is not going away any time in the near future, thank you very much. Buying a Vision Pro might not be the best investment but it’s not like putting that money in the stock market was going to be much better.

[John Moltz is a Six Colors contributor. You can find him on Mastodon at Mastodon.social/@moltz and he sells items with references you might get on Cotton Bureau.]