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.
Graham Barlow at TechRadar talks about Describe a Shortcut and how it’s coming to Shortcuts for Mac.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
If you’re waiting for Siri AI, you can bypass the feature flag on macOS using a Terminal command – this shortcut allows you to run the script (and undo it, if you want).
From Apple Newsroom: Powered by Apple Intelligence, the new version of Siri is profoundly more capable and conversational, and deeply integrated across products. View the
After reports that the new Siri won’t be coming in iOS 26.4, Apple has confirmed a 2026 release to soothe investor worries.
Code-named Campos, Siri will convert to a chat experience rather than one-off requests – check out the full report from Bloomberg.
Mark Gurman reports that we’ll see the “new Siri” announced at WWDC24 before we get a chatbot version at WWDC26 and in the fall – plus Jason Snell on Google TPUs.
Michael Burkhadrt points out that more people will get to use the new Siri than if it launched on time. So… it’s actually sort of in their favor?
With Apple confirming reports that Siri features will be powered by Gemini, Google’s new Personal Intelligence is a de facto preview of what’s to come.
Check out Google’s set of App Shortcuts for Gemini that let you add the assistant to your Action Button – and my set of custom shortcuts for more experiences with Gemini.