Confused about App Intents integration in iOS27

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I just watched the "Build Intelligent Siri experiences with App Schemas" and I'm confused about how to integrate my app with the new Apple Intelligence + Siri in iOS27. I think it mentions specifically that Siri needs to adopt App Schemas, and that just adopting App Intents in my app isn't enough for it to integrate with the new Siri. Is that correct?

The 'schemas' seem to be a narrow set of specific activities. What if my app's actions (or intents) don't match closely with it? For example, in my app, I have entities like Tags and Contacts. I can 'create tag' as well as 'add tags to a contact' as 2 different App intents. If I'm using just App Intents on their own, would these not map to the new Siri? I can also add a 'task' to a 'contact'. Would that possibly work with Siri?

The videos just don't seem to make an effort to explain what is and what isn't possible.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

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@zulfishah Thanks for the post, keep an eye out for the WWDC26 videos coming to the event https://developer.apple.com and hopefully will answer all your questions how to implement AppIntents After WWDC26 I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have about how to donate the data to Siri. However, let the technical people explain how it works.

Albert   Worldwide Developer Relations.

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extraman OP

1d

There needs to be a visual wizard for App Intents built into Xcode as either a template or an instrument.

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charliemelbye OP

15h

Same question here: Is Siri AI designed to work with Custom App Intents that don't fit within any of the schemas, or not?

I imagine a lot of developers will have this question, but the documentation on it is ambiguous and at times contradictory. It would be great to get clarification.

For posterity, I looked at the following resources:

WWDC 26 Videos

Skimmed through all videos relating to Siri AI, didn't see any mention of Custom App Intents (might've missed it)

Doc: "Getting Started With The App Intents Framework"

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents/getting-started-with-the-app-intents-framework

Mentions this, which seems to imply the possibility of Apple Intelligence and Siri working with custom app intents:

Apple Intelligence and Siri AI work better for app intents that support a known schema.

Doc: "Making actions and content discoverable by Apple Intelligence"

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents/making-actions-and-content-discoverable-by-apple-intelligence

No mention of custom app intents.