Apple has opened a Siri AI Developer Preview to any app developer, allowing third-party apps to handle custom requests such as delivery checks, reservations and orders. The preview began November 3 in the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3 and visionOS 27.3 betas, with the first customer experiences expected in a few months.
Developers can connect their apps through App Intents, bringing app content and actions within reach of Siri AI’s understanding of personal context, onscreen information and natural language. Apple is also introducing skills, which let developers combine multiple actions into one experience for more complex requests.
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What Apps Can Do
Siri AI can now retrieve any entity from the Spotlight semantic index, expanding beyond entries that match an existing schema. Developers can build custom actions that people request in their own words.
Users will not need to name an app when it is open in the foreground, has a Live Activity running or is already the subject of their Siri AI conversation. Thousands of developers have previously connected apps to Siri for tasks including navigation, managing to-do lists, messaging and audiobook listening.
Apple has begun bringing the expanded capabilities to its own apps, with examples including locating a coffee shop visited the previous week and archiving files left unopened for more than a year. Users can ask Siri AI which actions it supports within each app.
Who Can Use Siri AI
The Siri AI beta requires a device that supports Apple Intelligence and a supported language setting. Its beta availability also includes watchOS 27.3, alongside the four operating systems receiving this Developer Preview.
Supported languages are English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish; Apple says Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese will follow soon. Availability of individual features can differ by language and region, and users younger than 13 cannot use Siri AI.
Siri AI remains unavailable in the EU on iOS, iPadOS and watchOS, while Apple says it is working with the EU toward a path forward. Some Apple Intelligence functions using server-side models, including Siri AI, have daily usage limits that can change with request complexity, demand, system policies and other factors.
Apple plans to charge for expanded access to those limited features in the future. Developers will be able to submit their experiences to the App Store in spring.
Apple engineers will answer developer questions in an Apple Intelligence Group Lab on November 5, from 6 to 7 p.m. PT. Apple also plans to provide further details about the terms and usage policies governing experiences built with Siri AI.
