Apple opens Siri AI to any developer to integrate apps via App Intents and skills

From promise to developers' desks

Apple announced, on November 3, 2026, that the beta package for iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, watchOS 27.3 and visionOS 27.3 brings a Developer Preview that opens up the App Intents framework for any app to talk to Siri AI. According to 9to5Mac, until now the integration depended on a much smaller set of supported schemas.

The central change is twofold: any app can expose its own actions through App Intents, and Siri AI now recognizes any entity indexed by Spotlight, not just the ones that already had a ready-made schema. 9to5Mac sums up the size of the leap well: the first versions of Siri AI were limited to a much smaller set of supported schemas, which locked out apps outside that scope.

Skills: teaching Siri to stitch together several actions

The newest feature in this batch is called skills. With it, developers not only register isolated actions but also teach Siri AI to combine several of them into a single experience, useful for complex requests that require more than one step. Apple's own documentation describes the use case:

For example, a person might request a ride with a ride share app, follow updates to the app's Live Activity while they wait for their ride to arrive, then request to move the pickup location to a different address by saying "Hey Siri, change my ride pickup to a new address.

Apple, Siri AI developer documentation

9to5Mac brings another example from the same documentation: a request like "send my favorite sneakers to my partner" through a messaging app makes Siri AI locate the favorited items in an app, identify the right contact, and send the information through the messaging app, all coordinating three different apps from a single skill.

The app no longer needs to be named every time

A practical change for developers: according to The Verge, the user no longer needs to name the app in three specific situations:

• when the app is in the foreground on screen;
• during an active Live Activity from that app;
• in the middle of a conversation with Siri AI that already involves that app.

This means the context-recognition layer (onscreen awareness) becomes part of the contract between app and system: the developer who properly exposes their entities and states via App Intents gets this benefit for free, without needing to code their own disambiguation logic.

Apple is already running this in its own apps

The company has started applying the same capabilities (personal context, onscreen awareness, natural language) to native apps like Calendar, Files, Finder, Journal, Mail, Maps, Messages, Music, Notes, Photos, Preview, Reminders, Safari, Shortcuts and Weather. The examples cited by Apple give a sense of the kind of request that now works: finding a coffee shop visited the previous week or archiving files that haven't been opened in over a year.

These cases serve as a practical reference for anyone designing their own App Intents: Apple literally recommends asking Siri AI "what can you do" inside each native app to map out the expected interaction pattern.

Timeline and what's still open

Today's launch is only the Developer Preview, not a production-ready feature. Apple is explicit about the next steps:

1. The preview is available now in the developer betas of all five platforms.
2. Submitting apps to the App Store with Siri AI integrations only opens in the spring (Apple doesn't specify the exact year).
3. The actual rollout to end users happens "in a few months" after the preview, according to the company.
4. Terms and usage policies for Siri AI experiences are still to be detailed, with Apple promising "more news soon" on this specific point.

Anyone who wants to ask questions directly to Apple engineers can sign up for the Apple Intelligence Group Labs, scheduled for November 4 and 5, according to the official announcement.

It's worth noting three restrictions that affect any app's planning: Siri AI remains unavailable in the European Union on iOS, iPadOS and watchOS while Apple negotiates with regulators; the feature is not available to users under 13; and features that depend on server-side models, as is the case with Siri AI itself, have daily usage limits that are expected to get a paid tier for expanded access in the future.

What changes for developers in Brazil

Siri AI already works in Portuguese, one of the six languages available at launch (English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish), with Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese expected to follow later. That removes a common barrier from the path: the Brazilian app doesn't need to wait for a second wave of language support to test the integration.

Anyone already using the App Intents framework to power Shortcuts and Spotlight has the shortest path ahead: much of the work of modeling intents and entities is reused directly by Siri AI. Those who never adopted the framework now have a concrete reason to, since, according to Apple, thousands of developers have already built integrations that let users ask for directions, manage to-do lists, or resume an audiobook just by asking.

The caveat matters for product planning: what's available today is a testing surface, not a distribution channel. Between today's Developer Preview and the submission of apps with Siri AI integrations to the App Store, in the spring, and the actual rollout to users, "in a few months," Brazilian teams have a window to prototype, but not to promise the feature in production in the short term.