With Siri AI, Apple has updated App Intents to better understand data from your apps – with IntentValueRepresentation, RelevantEntities, EntityCollection, and SyncableEntity.
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.
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.
“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.
Videos from Apple’s WWDC26, including the Keynote, SOTU, Special Presentation, and sessions related to App Intents & Siri AI.
App Intents is the foundation for integrating your app with Siri and Apple Intelligence. It provides a structured way to describe what your app can do and the content within it.
Check out this list of links for every App Intents session from WWDC26 off the AI and Machine Learning playlist from Apple.
During a special presentation titled Inside Apple Intelligence & Xcode, App Intents Engineer Michael Gorbach spoke for 16 minutes about App Intents and what it means for Siri AI.
Bloomberg has more Siri news – I’m focused on “Search or Ask” which sounds like it’d provide App Intents results similar to Image Search.
New from Apple: Developers can leverage coding agents, including Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex, directly in Xcode to tackle complex tasks autonomously, helping them develop apps faster than ever.
According to a new report, the long-rumored “HomePad” is finally coming this spring – and I think it runs on Interactive Snippets.
Ulysses has expanded their App Intents support in version 39 with Find, Import File, and Search actions – plus support for Spotlight on Mac.
Watch Apple’s 2025 developer sessions in the best order to master Shortcuts, Spotlight, and interactive snippets.
Apple Newsroom has shared developer updates out of WWDC, including support for Visual Intelligence in App Intents.
Designer and developer Vidit Bhargava joined me to talk about his framework for app development centered around designing actions first, particularly as it relates to Apple Intelligence.
AI consultant and app developer Connor Hammond joins me to talk about the future of app development in a world of AI, particularly in relation to Apple’s App Intents APIs.