
Siri AI Continues Across Devices, Apps Can Stay In Sync With Stable IDs
With Siri AI interacting with the same content from apps across devices, they need one stable ID to match up inside conversations.

With Siri AI interacting with the same content from apps across devices, they need one stable ID to match up inside conversations.

When working with large data sets, developers using App Intents should mark them as EntityCollections for performance improvements – loading only the identifiers.

Apps can ensure Siri AI knows which content is most important using RelevantEntities – beyond donations or Spotlight indexing.

Some apps have unique types that Siri AI can’t understand by default – ValueRepresentation helps teach the system about your type.

Graham Barlow at TechRadar talks about Describe a Shortcut and how it’s coming to Shortcuts for Mac.

OpenClaw, “the AI that actually does things,” has released iOS and Android versions of the app that let you control your OpenClaw instance running on your desktop.

John Elman, formerly Product Marketing at Apple, has left his most recent work on Siri and Apple Intelligence to rejoin the startup investing world as a partner at a16z.

Designer Michael Flarup has announced an interactive 3D video game collection app that puts your physical game boxes on a shelf. Sign up to be notified when Cippy launches.

Normally, App Intents have a 30-second limit to finish running – LongRunningIntent helps developers get beyond that by moving to a Live Activity. Plus, CancellableIntent makes sure it can be ended gracefully.

Curor has released their iOS app, bringing the agentic coding platform to iOS with remote sessions or cloud agents.

“App Intents is a framework that lets you express your app’s actions and content to other parts of the system in ways that feels natural and deeply integrated.”

From Apple Developer: Level up your App Intents adoption with advanced features to make it faster, more flexible, and more relevant.

New in iOS 27, the Photos app has a setting to sync to iCloud Immediately – for the remainder of the day. No more seeing “iCloud is paused” when you expect your photos to be synced!

Juli Clover of MacRumors covers all the updates out of WWDC that make Shortcuts easier to use – Describe a Shortcut, refinements, new actions, and more.

During The Talk Show Live at WWDC26, Joanna Stern referenced “the silence of Siri” – I wrote it down at the time so I’d remember to link it here. Poetic.

Watch the recording of John Gruber interviewing Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel afte WWDC26 – where I was in attendance in the audience,

The Siri AI system prompt has leaked online – here’s the introduction. Make sure to find it and read it yourself.

Videos from Apple’s WWDC26, including the Keynote, SOTU, Special Presentation, and sessions related to App Intents & Siri AI.

New filters in Automations for Turned On and Turned Off make it easy to view your automated shortcuts and toggle them as needed.
Apple Design has released new resources for the iOS 27 cycle, including UI Kits and App Icon Templates for Figma and Sketch.