You’ve probably seen Siri’s new glow up in ads and social media — a rainbow of colors enveloping the edges of the iPhone screen when the virtual assistant is summoned. But is your iPhone still showing the same familiar Siri sphere at the bottom of the screen, even under iOS 18.3?
The new design of Siri is a glowing border that distorts everything briefly.
Siri under iOS 18 looks the same as it did in iOS 17 for many people.
After the first Apple Intelligence features arrived in iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and MacOS Sequoia 15.1, they weren’t automatically turned on. You had to sign up and wait for a few hours or days to get access.
The latest updates (iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3 and MacOS Sequoia 15.3) now enable Apple Intelligence automatically, even though it’s still considered a beta feature. If you never signed up for the waitlist, or this is your first jump to iOS 18 from iOS 17, for example, Apple Intelligence should be on and the new Siri interface should appear.
However, if at some point you had Apple Intelligence on your device but you turned it off, the latest updates don’t flip the switch to re-enable it. Go to Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri and make sure the Apple Intelligence toggle is turned on.
Currently Apple Intelligence is not available worldwide and uses only English language models. In Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri, make sure Language is set to one of the following:
