What new with app intents
Asked on 06/11/2025
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At WWDC, Apple introduced several new features and improvements for App Intents. Here are some of the highlights:
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Interactive Snippets: App Intents now support interactive snippets, allowing apps to display tailored views that can ask for confirmation or display results with interactivity. This can be used for various purposes, such as configuring a food order or integrating with live activities. You can learn more about this in the session Explore new advances in App Intents.
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New System Integrations: App Intents can now integrate more deeply with system features, such as Spotlight and Image Search. For instance, apps can index their entities in Spotlight, enabling powerful semantic search capabilities. Additionally, apps can support image search by implementing queries that conform to the Intent Value Query protocol. More details can be found in the session Explore new advances in App Intents.
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User Experience Refinements: There are new features to refine user experiences, such as supported modes that give intents greater control over foregrounding the app. This allows intents to behave differently based on user interaction, like providing voice-only information when driving. Check out the session Explore new advances in App Intents for more information.
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Convenience APIs: New APIs have been introduced to enhance the developer experience, making it easier to work with App Intents. These include improvements for packaging App Intents code with Swift packages and static libraries. More on this can be found in the session Explore new advances in App Intents.
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Spotlight Integration: New APIs allow apps to index their entities in Spotlight, bringing powerful semantic search capabilities to app content. This integration helps users find relevant app content more easily. For more details, see the session What’s new in App Intents.
These updates aim to enhance the functionality and integration of apps across Apple's ecosystem, providing richer and more interactive experiences for users.
Explore new advances in App Intents
Explore all the new enhancements available in the App Intents framework in this year’s releases. Learn about developer quality-of-life improvements like deferred properties, new capabilities like interactive app intents snippets, entity view annotations, how to integrate Visual Intelligence, and much more. We’ll take you through how App Intents is more expressive than ever, while becoming even easier and smoother to adopt. We’ll also share exciting new clients of App Intents this year like Spotlight and Visual Intelligence, and learn to write app intents that work great in those contexts.
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.
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.