Apple Siri AI developer preview: any app can hand actions and data to Siri AI through App Intents
What is it?
The Siri AI developer preview lets the new Siri AI find and use the actions and data an app exposes through App Intents. Custom actions that don't fit a system schema work too: mark an intent as a tool with @AppIntent and Siri can call it. For requests that chain several actions, you write an app skill that tells Siri how to combine them. Xcode's Siri Integration Advisor reviews your implementation, and the Siri Evaluations framework lets you script requests and measure how Siri handles them. You don't need a new entitlement or a separate program.
Why does it matter?
When your app is in the foreground or has a Live Activity running, Siri can pick its actions without the user naming the app, so voice and agents become another way into your app. Korean, Japanese and Spanish are among the launch languages, so many non-English apps can test right away. App Store submissions open in the spring, which leaves time now to clean up intents and entities and build evaluation scripts.
Maturity
PreviewThis is a developer preview. It only works in builds signed with a development profile and for internal TestFlight testers, and the APIs may change during the preview. It isn't available in the EU on iOS, iPadOS or watchOS yet.
How to track it
- Launch: watch Apple Developer News for the customer rollout in a few months and the spring opening of App Store submissions.
- Terms: look for the Siri AI terms and usage policies Apple says it will publish.
- API changes: check whether
@AppIntent,ToolIntentand the app skills API change from beta to beta in the App Intents docs.