App Intents

Use App Intents and Visual Intelligence to return ranked app content from screenshots and camera captures, with AppEntity models, SemanticContentDescriptor queries, Vision feature prints, OpenIntent routing, privacy, and testing.

Use WWDC26 App Intents APIs to share structured entities, suggest relevant content, scale bulk actions, sync IDs across devices, run long work, and route execution to the right process.

Use AppIntentsTesting to verify intents, entity queries, Spotlight indexing, and SwiftUI view annotations before debugging the same behavior through Siri.

App Intents are the foundation for Siri AI, but App Schemas are what make your app's content and actions understandable. Here is the shape of a useful integration.

App Intents are not just for Shortcuts. Here is a small foreground intent that opens your app and routes into a SwiftUI screen from system surfaces...

iOS 18 controls let users run app actions from Control Center, the Lock Screen, and the Action button on supported devices. Build a WidgetKit control toggle that stays in sync with app state.