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> **Original source:** https://developer.apple.com/wwdc26/guides/apple-intelligence/

The App Intents framework is how you can connect your app to Apple Intelligence and features like Siri AI. By adopting App Intents schemas — the recognizable structures Siri understands deeply, built on years of language model training — you can make your app's content discoverable and its capabilities available through natural language with less code.

Entity schemas contribute your app's content to the Spotlight semantic index, enabling personal context understanding with attribution back to your app, and intent schemas let people take action on that content naturally — no specific phrases to define, and no code changes needed as Siri's language understanding evolves or expands to new languages and regional dialects. Schemas cover common app categories like task management, photo editing, and communication, and because they're system-defined, your intents benefit automatically from future improvements.

The new View Annotations API adds on-screen awareness on top of all of this, letting you map your views to entities so people can reference and act on what's right in front of them conversationally. And the new App Intents Testing framework lets you validate your entire integration — Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight — through real system pathways, without UI automation, so you can catch issues early and ship with confidence.