Apple has opened its new Siri to every app developer. The Developer Preview arrived on November 3 in the 27.3 betas of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS, according to Apple’s Developer news page. Until now, outside apps could reach Siri only through the older integrations that thousands of developers already built for tasks like directions, to-do lists, messages, and audiobooks.
The mechanism is App Intents, Apple’s existing framework for describing what an app can do. A developer exposes the app’s content and actions through it, and Siri AI can then carry them out when someone asks in ordinary language. Apple’s examples are checking a delivery, booking a reservation, and placing an order. Siri AI also draws on what is on the user’s screen and on personal context, so a request does not have to match a fixed command.
Two additions go beyond the old model. Developers can now write “skills,” which teach Siri AI to chain several actions into one experience for a complex request. And Siri AI can pull any item from the Spotlight semantic index, the system’s search layer, rather than only items that fit a predefined schema. Apple has already switched this on in its own apps, including Mail, Maps, Messages, Photos, Safari, Notes, and Calendar. Its sample requests are finding a coffee shop you visited last week and archiving files you have not opened in over a year.
The commercial pitch is distribution. Apple says people can find and open apps just by asking Siri AI, which makes the assistant a new front door to software. For a small developer, that means competing for the spoken request instead of an icon on a home screen.
The limits are real. Siri AI needs a device with Apple Intelligence switched on and a supported language: English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, or Spanish today, with Vietnamese, Turkish, Norwegian, and Traditional Chinese promised later. Right now it is missing from the EU on iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS, and Apple says it is working with the EU on a way forward. It is not offered to users under 13. Features that rely on Apple’s server-side models also carry daily usage limits, and Apple says expanded access will cost money in the future.
The timeline is slow on purpose. Apple says shipping to the public is a few months off, and App Store submission opens in the spring. The company has not yet published its rules and terms for experiences built on Siri AI, and promises more detail soon. That gap matters for anyone planning a business on it, since revenue rules, data handling, and the daily limits all decide whether an integration is worth building. Apple engineers are taking developer questions in live lab sessions on November 4 and 5.
For a team with an iPhone app, the next few months are the window to build a few high-value actions, such as reorder or track, and test them in the beta before the policy details land. Whoever ships a clean integration first will be sitting in the assistant when it opens to the public.
Reported by Apple’s Developer news page on November 3, 2026.
