The Hallway Track
8 tracked signals on app-intents.
Apple's iOS 27 Siri, powered by Apple Intelligence, can access app entities, take actions via App Intents, and understand on-screen context.
“This year, Siri becomes more powerful in three key ways. Siri can now access your app's entities, the real meaningful content inside your app.”
Apple's WWDC26 session details advanced App Intents APIs letting developers deeply integrate apps with Siri and Apple Intelligence.
“Each donation is a hint that a person took a specific action in your app's UI.”
Apple's Shortcuts now integrates more capable Apple Intelligence models with web access, transcript debugging, and persistent storage.
“The Use Model action lets you tap into the power of large language models, directly within your shortcuts.”
Apple's WWDC26 code-along shows developers how to make app content and actions available to Siri via the App Intents framework.
“This is how Siri can make everyday things effortless simply with a conversation.”
Apple expands Visual Intelligence to iPad and macOS with new app-integration APIs for image search.
“If I take a picture or screenshot of some album artwork, and highlight to search, my app shows matching albums and concerts right in Visual Intelligence.”
Apple's App Intents and App Schemas let third-party apps surface content and actions in Siri without handling natural language.
“Siri can understand meaning, not just keywords.”
Apple's App Intents framework gains new capabilities for entities, native types, and longer-running intents in its 2027 releases.
“App Intense has been the engine behind some of the most delightful experiences on Apple platforms and is now a key pillar of Apple intelligence.”
Apple introduces AppIntentsTesting, a new framework for testing App Intents adoption in apps.
“App Intense testing is a brand new framework that lets you test all of that and more.”