This post is from the WWDC26 Foundation Models Q&A.
App Intents now connect app content and actions to Apple Intelligence, and Siri AI can take action directly inside third-party apps without fixed trigger phrases.
- Can an app expose a single conversational/agent-style entry point to Siri AI, or must all capabilities be modeled as discrete intents? If discrete, how does Siri AI chain multiple intents to fulfill a compound natural-language request?
- What is the supported pattern for long-running or asynchronous intents — actions that acknowledge immediately but complete and return a result seconds or minutes later? Is there a progress/continuation/callback model?
- How are an intent's results rendered — inline in the Siri app, via a snippet/App Intent UI, or by deep-linking into the app? What control do developers have over that presentation?
- For intents whose parameters are ambiguous, what disambiguation and follow-up affordances does Siri AI provide, and can developers supply candidate resolutions dynamically at runtime?
- Is there an eligibility or review process for apps to participate in systemwide Siri AI actions, beyond simply adopting App Intents?