App Intents and the Future: If Siri Can’t Use Your App, Neither Can AI
summary
App Intents expose concrete app features systemwide today — powering Shortcuts, widget interactivity, Spotlight actions, Watch/Control Center widgets and Apple Pencil hooks — and are the plumbing for Apple’s upcoming AI Siri which recognizes roughly app intent domains (about ten so far) via Swift macros called assistant schemas. Actions show up in Shortcuts so you can validate behavior now; on‑screen context uses NSUserActivity plus an entity identifier and transferable app entities but that path currently has no public end‑to‑end tester.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker bio
- 1:01RevenueCat and app services
- 5:03Apple Intelligence and Siri
- 8:01Understanding App Intents
- 14:44Preparing for AI integration
- 21:28On-screen awareness APIs
- 26:08Conclusion and closing
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