Appontents
Asked on 06/14/2025
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It seems like you might be referring to "App Intents," a framework discussed in various sessions at Apple's WWDC. App Intents is a foundational framework that allows developers to expose their app's core features to system features like Siri, Spotlight, and Shortcuts. This enables users to interact with app functionalities outside the app itself, enhancing user engagement and app discoverability.
Here are some key points about App Intents from the sessions:
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Framework Overview: App Intents is not a standalone feature but a common foundation for building features that integrate with system functionalities like Siri and Spotlight. It allows you to define core actions and content that the system can understand and present outside your app.
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Integration with System Features: By adopting App Intents, you can expose your app's core features in a way that system features can utilize. This includes defining actions and content that can be presented by Siri, Spotlight, and Shortcuts.
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App Intents Packages: You can now add App Intents to Swift packages and static libraries, which helps in sharing types between different targets in your app.
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Entities and Parameters: App Intents allows you to create entities and parameters that can be used in intents. These can be native Swift types or custom types defined in your app.
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Spotlight Integration: You can enhance Spotlight search results by providing more information through the attribute set, which can include location information or keywords.
For more detailed information, you might want to check out the sessions titled "Get to know App Intents," "Bring your app’s core features to users with App Intents," and "Explore new advances in App Intents" from WWDC 2024 and 2025.
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.
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.
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.