Whats new in AppIntents
Asked on 06/12/2025
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In the session titled What’s new in App Intents, several new features and improvements were introduced for App Intents. These include:
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Spotlight Integration: You can now index your app entities in Spotlight, which helps Siri find and understand content more effectively. This integration allows for a richer understanding of your app's content and provides meaningful representations of your app entities.
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Universal Links: App intent types can now be exposed as universal links, allowing devices to take users directly to specific locations within your app.
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Developer Experience Improvements: There are enhancements to make working with App Intents easier, including new APIs and improvements in indexing and exposing app entities.
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Apple Intelligence Integration: App Intents are now core to building experiences for Apple Intelligence, providing new ways to help the system understand and use your app entities.
For a deeper dive into these features, you can watch the session What’s new in App Intents.
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.