A customer wants a delivery update, a reservation or the price of a saved pair of shoes. Apple is opening a way for apps to handle more of those requests through Siri, without making the customer navigate every screen. Developers can start testing; their customers will have to wait.

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Apps can offer their own actions

Apple’s 3 November announcement opens the Siri AI Developer Preview to all developers in the 27.3 betas of iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS. App Intents—the way an app tells Apple’s system what it can do—can now expose custom tasks and content beyond predefined categories.

The company also introduces app skills: guidance for combining several actions into a more complex request. Michael Gorbach, who leads Apple’s App Intents core team, announced the opening to developers on X.

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Apple’s App Intents team leader introduces the developer preview for broader Siri app integration.

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The app still has to make the task available

Apple’s preview documentation is explicit: Siri can find only the custom content and actions an app makes available. An app can also supply the small result cards that carry its branding.

The naming rules matter. In a foreground app, an active Live Activity or a continuing Siri conversation that mentions the app, people need not name it again. For a background app, Apple’s documented route requires mentioning the app.

Pestle developer Will Bishop flags that boundary in a reply: he wants to ask which recipe he saved without naming Pestle. That is a developer’s concern about discovery, not a measured test of this preview.

For a business with an app, the practical question is which useful customer tasks to expose and how their results should appear. Our earlier shopping feature examines the wider customer relationship when an assistant becomes the starting point.

A testing window, with regional limits

Development builds and internal TestFlight testers can use the integration. External TestFlight testers and App Store customers cannot. Apple expects customer experiences in a few months and says App Store submissions will open in spring; further terms and usage policies are still to come.

The announcement says Siri AI remains unavailable in the EU on iOS, iPadOS and watchOS. Compatible Apple Intelligence hardware and a supported language are required. Some server-based features have daily limits, and Apple plans paid expanded access without stating a price in this announcement.

Apple’s existing usage terms also allow limits to vary and access to change. This preview establishes a new integration route; dependable task completion, customer uptake and a final commercial model still need evidence.

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