What's new with App Intents?
Asked on 2026-08-20
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App Intents has several new capabilities across the latest WWDC sessions:
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Better entity support
- Share entities across apps with ValueRepresentation
- Mark content as relevant with RelevantEntities
- Work more efficiently with large datasets using EntityCollection
- Use entities across devices with SyncableEntity
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Richer parameter types
- Support for more native types
- Union value parameters for more flexible intent inputs
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Longer-running intents
- New LongRunningIntent support for intents that need to run for more than 30 seconds
- Improved cancellation handling
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Execution control
- ExecutionTargets lets you choose exactly where an intent runs:
- main app
- app intent extension
- WidgetKit extension
- or any combination
- ExecutionTargets lets you choose exactly where an intent runs:
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Testing
- A new framework, AppIntentsTesting, helps you validate intents, entity queries, Spotlight indexing, view annotations, and more
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System integrations
- App Intents continues to power Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, widgets, Action Button, and Apple Intelligence experiences
- Newer sessions also highlight deeper Siri AI integration and richer Spotlight experiences
If you want, I can also summarize what’s new in a specific year: 2024, 2025, or 2026.
Discover new capabilities in the App Intents framework
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