how is app intends important for siri
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App Intents are crucial for Siri as they enable deeper and more natural access to your app's data and capabilities. By defining actions and entities within your app using the App Intents framework, Siri can understand and interact with your app more effectively. This integration allows Siri to:
- Invoke Items from App Menus: Siri can access and invoke any item from your app's menus, making it easier for users to perform actions through voice commands.
- Access Text in Standard Text Systems: Siri can reference and act on text displayed in any app that uses standard text systems, enhancing its ability to perform contextually relevant actions.
- Search App Data: With the new Spotlight API, Siri can search data from your app, including app entities, making it easier for users to find and interact with content within your app.
- Connect Content Across Apps: App Intents and app entities allow users to connect content from different apps seamlessly. For example, a user can bring a summary from a note into an email draft, and Siri can facilitate this interaction.
These capabilities are powered by Apple Intelligence, which enhances Siri's understanding and interaction with app content, making it more flexible and intelligent.
For more detailed information, you can refer to the session Platforms State of the Union and Bring your app to Siri.
Bring your app to Siri
Learn how to use App Intents to expose your app’s functionality to Siri. Understand which intents are already available for your use, and how to create custom intents to integrate actions from your app into the system. We’ll also cover what metadata to provide, making your entities searchable via Spotlight, annotating onscreen references, and much more.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
Bring your app’s core features to users with App Intents
Learn the principles of the App Intents framework, like intents, entities, and queries, and how you can harness them to expose your app’s most important functionality right where people need it most. Find out how to build deep integration between your app and the many system features built on top of App Intents, including Siri, controls and widgets, Apple Pencil, Shortcuts, the Action button, and more. Get tips on how to build your App Intents integrations efficiently to create the best experiences in every surface while still sharing code and core functionality.