any changes to suggested entities in app intents?
Asked on 06/12/2025
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Yes, there have been changes to suggested entities in App Intents. In the session titled "Get to know App Intents" from WWDC 2025, it was discussed that you can implement the optional Suggested Entities method on an entity query to provide a list of suggested entities, such as a customer's favorite landmarks. This allows for generating app shortcuts for each suggested entity, making it easier to navigate directly to specific items using Siri and shortcuts. Additionally, the session "Develop for Shortcuts and Spotlight with App Intents" from WWDC 2025 highlights the use of suggested entities as part of the Entity Query Protocol, which is useful when you want to suggest a subset of a large or unbounded list of entities.
For more details, you can refer to the session Get to know App Intents (19:35) and Develop for Shortcuts and Spotlight with App Intents (14:14).
Get to know App Intents
Learn about the App Intents framework and its increasingly critical role within Apple’s developer platforms. We’ll take you through a ground-up introduction of the core concepts: intents, entities, queries, and much more. You’ll learn how these pieces fit together and let you integrate your app through Apple’s devices, from software features like Spotlight and Shortcuts to hardware features like the Action button. We’ll also walk through how App Intents is your app’s gateway to integrating with Apple Intelligence going forward.
What’s new in App Intents
Learn about improvements and all-new features with App Intents, and discover how this framework can help you expose your app’s functionality to Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, and more. We’ll show you how to make your entities more meaningful to the platform with the Transferable API, File Representations, new IntentFile APIs, and Spotlight Indexing, opening up powerful functionality in Siri and the Shortcuts app. Empower your intents to take people deep into your app with URL Representable Entities. Explore new techniques to model your entities and intents with new APIs for error handling and union values.
Develop for Shortcuts and Spotlight with App Intents
Learn about how building App Intents that make actions available and work best with the new features in Shortcuts and Spotlight on Mac. We’ll show you how your actions combine in powerful ways with the new Apple Intelligence actions available in the Shortcuts app. We’ll deep-dive into how the new “Use Model” action works, and how it interacts with your app’s entities. And we’ll discuss how to use the App Intents APIs to make your actions available in Spotlight.