The new Siri runs on Gemini layer and can hold a conversation, read what's on screen, and take actions across apps. But for it to do anything with your app, you have to tell it what your app can do. And that's where App Intents comes in. Apple retired SiriKit this year, so intents are now the way in.
Updates I'm most keen to play with:
β’ Foundation Models: Apple's on-device model can now take images, not just text. Free, offline, Swift-native, so you add smart features without paying for cloud calls.
β’ App Intents also gained per-intent cloud controls: you can declare whether a given interaction may leave the device, useful for finance and health apps that need certain actions to stay strictly local.
β’ Xcode 27 got on-device AI code completion, and iOS 27 supports phones back to the iPhone 11.
Spending this week at Apple's WWDC group labs - Apple Intelligence, Machine Learning & AI, and Privacy & Security, digging into how much of this is shippable today vs. next year.
π Apple Developer - WWDC 2026: https://lnkd.in/eUnzREwK
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