Expose Your App's Actions — or Lose Them to Siri's AI

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🍎 𝗦𝗶𝗿𝗶 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗪𝗗𝗖 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 , and there's a lot here that changes the day-to-day for app developers.
The 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝗶𝗿𝗶 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶 𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 and can hold a conversation, read what's on screen, and take actions across apps. But for it to do anything with your app, you have to tell it what your app can do. And that's where App Intents comes in. Apple retired 𝗦𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗞𝗶𝘁 this year, so intents are now the way in.

Updates I'm most keen to play with:

• 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀: Apple's 𝗼𝗻-𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 model can now take images, not just text. Free, offline, Swift-native, so you add smart features without paying for cloud calls.

• 𝗔𝗽𝗽 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 also gained per-intent cloud controls: you can declare whether a given interaction may leave the device, useful for finance and health apps that need certain actions to stay strictly local.

• Xcode 27 got on-device AI code completion, and iOS 27 supports phones back to the iPhone 11.

Spending this week at Apple's WWDC group labs - Apple Intelligence, Machine Learning & AI, and Privacy & Security, digging into how much of this is shippable today vs. next year.

🔗 Apple Developer - WWDC 2026: https://lnkd.in/eUnzREwK