{"id":91203,"date":"2026-05-06T02:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/apple-settles-alleged-false-advertising-suit-over-ai-powered-siri\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:34:44","slug":"apple-settles-alleged-false-advertising-suit-over-ai-powered-siri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/apple-settles-alleged-false-advertising-suit-over-ai-powered-siri\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Settles Alleged False Advertising Suit Over AI-Powered Siri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/02\/siri-1280x823.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to the New York Times, if you bought an iPhone 16 or certain iPhone 15 between June of 2024 and March of 2025, you may soon be eligible to receive a check for as much as $95 per device as part of a class action lawsuit related to Apple Intelligence and Siri. The allegedly flawed Apple Intelligence features that were part of the suit originally shipped on iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max in June of 2024. The Apple Intelligence-native iPhone 16 line shipped later that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Tuesday, Apple settled claims in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California over alleged false advertising. The suit argued that Apple led consumers to believe the Apple Intelligence suite of features was more capable than it actually was. The total settlement amount, still awaiting a judge\u2019s approval, is $250 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Apple maintains that it did nothing wrong. Marni Goldberg, an Apple spokesperson gave a statement to the Times, claiming that beginning with \u201cthe launch of Apple Intelligence,\u201d Apple has \u201cintroduced dozens of features across many languages that are integrated across Apple\u2019s platforms,\u201d and that the company had \u201cresolved this matter to stay focused on doing what we do best, delivering the most innovative products and services to our users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This lawsuit was \u201cfallout,\u201d according to Axios, from Apple\u2019s acknowledgement last year that AI upgrades to Siri were not going to be released on schedule. A statement to Daring Fireball at the time said Apple had \u201cbeen working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps,\u201d but added, \u201cIt\u2019s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The next day, it was reported that Apple had pulled a now-notorious ad starring Bella Ramsey:<\/p>\n<div class=\"not-prose video-container\"><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Apple Intelligence | More personal Siri | iPhone 16 Pro\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/X3c916Mb02E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>The ad is a nice summary of the \u201cmore personal\u201d Siri concept that still has not been realized. We see Ramsey notice a person whose name they know they should know, so they quickly ask Siri \u201cthe name of the guy I had a meeting with a couple of months ago at Cafe Grenel?\u201d It\u2019s up to the viewer to presume this beefed-up version of Siri is able to use this prompt to draw on, say, an email, and produce the right answer. It immediately replies, \u201cYou met Zac Wingate at Cafe Grenel a couple of months ago.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To put this class action settlement in context, Apple had been struggling mightily with Siri ever since\u2014deservedly or not\u2014ChatGPT created new consumer expectations for an AI-powered assistant. \u201cAI is what most investors are really excited about. Almost all momentum in the market in general is being fueled by AI,\u201d a portfolio manager named Brian Mulberry told the Wall Street Journal in February of 2024. Mulberry lamented that \u201cApple really hasn\u2019t made a big splash in the AI space yet.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So the Apple Intelligence rollout was perceived as coming late, but it was also, it seems, too early\u2014given that it was sued and ended up settling for $250 million. In an interview with TechRadar last year after the smoke cleared around Siri\u2019s underperformance, Apple software chief Craig Federighi explained that the company was working on a \u201cversion 2\u201d of the new Siri that would work in all the personalized ways consumers had come to expect, but that Apple was no longer publicly offering a speculative release schedule for that version.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Times, if you bought an iPhone 16 or certain iPhone 15 between June of 2024 and March of 2025, you may soon be eligible to receive a check for as much as $95 per device as part of a class action lawsuit related to Apple Intelligence and Siri. 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