app-intents

To expose app actions to Siri and Shortcuts, you implement AppIntent with parameter summaries and async perform() methods, then register discoverable phrases via AppShortcutsProvider. This allows your app's functionality to be callable directly from system surfaces.

The best way to model app data for Spotlight indexing and disambiguation is using AppEntity and EntityQuery variants. This structure ensures your app data can be reliably resolved, picked, and displayed across iOS system surfaces like Spotlight search.

Yes, you can configure widgets and Control Center using AppIntents. By implementing WidgetConfigurationIntent and Control Center controls, your app's data entities and actions become available for users to customize and interact with directly from these iOS system surfaces.

To make app entities reliably resolved for Apple Intelligence, you must properly configure AppEntity, EntityQuery, and AppEnum models. Correct modeling combined with proper IndexedEntity configuration and iOS 26 indexing keys ensures your entities are discoverable and callable.

Yes, async-safe perform() implementations are required for AppIntents. This ensures reliable system execution when your app actions are invoked from Siri, Shortcuts, or other iOS system surfaces without blocking or timing out during data processing.

An AppEntity might fail to resolve from Siri if the EntityQuery variants are not properly modeled for robust entity picking and disambiguation, or if the AppShortcutsProvider phrases lack correct parameter mapping and indexing configuration.