Currently, I have spotlight entities show up when I search for them using Spotlight on iOS 27. These entities are things that are important for users, like campus buildings, accessible entrances, assignments, and more.
However, after getting access to Siri AI, it seems that none of this information at all is available to Siri, yet all of it is sitting there in the spotlight index and viewable with a written query. I was told by an Apple Engineer that creating Indexed and EnumerableEntities, and indexing them via the App Intents framework, should expose information about these items to Siri, so if I query: "[Building name] in Ohio State" it would at least show me what the app has for that information.
Presently, Siri uses the web for everything and doesn't pull in any spotlight information for my app, despite either creating wrapper entities or using the API associating with spotlight.
With Siri AI, it would be so much more helpful for a disabled user to say "Orton Hall accessible entrance" and Siri to know that there's 1 accessible entrance indexed in spotlight in my app, and then show or open it, instead of querying the web or saying it can't answer the question. It has all available information already in spotlight to answer this question. Currently, as far as I'm aware, something like this simply doesn't work, unless your app conforms to the strict use cases of making reminders or calendar events, all of which aren't useful here.
Can a Frameworks engineer please clarify precisely when and how IndexedEntities (paired with an a corresponding macro-annotated OpenIntent) eg:
@AppIntent(schema: .system.open)
struct OpenBuildingIntent: OpenIntent {
@Parameter(title: "Building")
var Building: BuildingEntity
...
will or will not be visible using Siri AI? To me it seems I have wasted a lot of time porting actions within my app to App Intents, and viewable entities with AppEntity, only to have Siri not be able to use any of this information out of the box.
