Apple opens Siri AI to all developers through App Intents

What Siri AI can do with apps

Siri AI draws on personal context, on-screen awareness and natural language understanding. Users can check a delivery status, book a restaurant table or order goods just by talking to the assistant.

Apple is also introducing "skills", a mechanism for chaining several actions to handle complex requests. Information held in Spotlight's semantic index becomes available to Siri AI as well, no longer limited to predefined formats. The company has already started rolling out new features in its own apps, including Calendar, Mail, Maps, Messages, Photos and Safari. Examples include finding a coffee shop visited last week or archiving files that have not been opened for over a year.

Timing and limits

Features built in this preview will reach general users in a few months. The App Store will begin accepting submissions of compatible apps in spring 2027, and Apple plans to publish details of the terms and usage policies for apps that use Siri AI.

Siri AI supports six languages, including Japanese, and requires a device that supports Apple Intelligence. Some features are unavailable depending on region and language, and users under 13 are excluded. Certain features that rely on server-side AI models have a daily usage cap, which Apple says it plans to let users extend for a fee in the future.