Apple agrees to pay $250m after falsely claiming AI-powered Siri was ‘available now’

Settlement, which includes no admission of wrongdoing, covers roughly 36m eligible devices in class-action lawsuit

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/apple">Apple on Tuesday agreed to pay $250m to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of misleading millions of https://www.theguardian.com/technology/iphone">iPhone buyers by falsely touting artificial intelligence capabilities for its Siri voice assistant in late 2024.

Plaintiffs accused the California tech company of having “promoted AI capabilities that did not exist at the time, do not exist now, and will not exist for two or more years” in order to boost iPhone sales, according to the suit.

Apple’s more “personalized” version of Siri still has not been fully released despite its announcement nearly two years ago.