19.5 · App Intents, Shortcuts, Siri and Spotlight

App Intents is how your app’s actions and data become something the system can use: Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, widgets, controls and Apple Intelligence all read the same declarations.

Mental model. Describe what your app can do and what it knows once, in Swift, and let every system surface reuse it.

One declaration, many surfaces

Intents, entities, shortcuts and the legacy SiriKit.

1. What are App Intents, App Entities and App Shortcuts, how do they replace SiriKit and Intents extensions, and how do you test them? 19.5.1 · L5
   App Intents (iOS 16+) is a Swift-only framework for exposing your app’s functionality to the system with no extension target and no intent-definition file. An…

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