What's new with Siri for developers?
Asked on 2026-06-10
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For developers, the big Siri update is that Siri is now built on App Intents and Apple Intelligence, so apps can expose richer capabilities to Siri with much less friction.
What’s new
- More natural, conversational Siri
- Siri understands more flexible phrasing and can handle follow-up conversation better.
- Deeper app understanding
- Siri can work with your app’s entities and content, not just a few predefined commands.
- On-screen awareness
- Siri can understand what’s visible on screen and act on it.
- Semantic search / indexing
- Apps can make content available so Siri can find it more intelligently.
- New app actions
- Siri can invoke app actions through App Intents and, in supported cases, app-specific schema domains.
What developers should use
- App Intents is the foundation for integrating with Siri and Apple Intelligence.
- In the newer 2026 session, Apple also highlights:
- App Schemas for describing what your app can do
- App Entities and IndexedEntity for making content searchable and understandable
- Transferable and testing workflows for moving content and validating integrations
Practical takeaway
If you want your app to work well with Siri, Apple is steering developers toward:
- Model your app content with App Intents / entities
- Index content so Siri can find it
- Expose actions Siri can perform
- Test with Shortcuts, Spotlight, and Siri
If you want, I can also summarize what changed from WWDC 2024 to WWDC 2026 for Siri developers.
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