What do I need to use benefits of AppIntents schemas on my iPhone?
Asked on 2026-06-26
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To use the benefits of App Intents schemas on your iPhone, you need to adopt the relevant App Intents / App Schemas in your app and expose your app’s content and actions to the system.
In practice, that means:
- Define your app’s actions as intents so Siri and other system features can invoke them.
- Use entity schemas to describe the content in your app, so it can be found and understood.
- Adopt the system-supported schema domains that match your app’s capabilities.
- Make sure your app supports the system experiences that use them, such as:
- Siri
- Spotlight
- Shortcuts
- Widgets
- Action Button
- other rich system integrations
Apple’s 2026 session explains that these schemas are what let Siri understand your app deeply, and that they’re built into system-supported structures, so you get better integration with less code.
If you meant what you need on the device as a user, then the answer is simply: an iPhone running a supported Apple Intelligence/Siri experience, and the app must have adopted those schemas.
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