Shortcuts integration into Spotlight in macOS Tahoe is quite amazing. EntityQuery support could be improved but this a great way to trigger app actions quickly. If you have a Mac app, do add support for #AppIntents.
Shortcuts integration into Spotlight in macOS Tahoe is quite amazing. EntityQuery support could be improved but this a great way to trigger app actions quickly. If you have a Mac app, do add support for #AppIntents.
New to app intents, or want to learn a little more of the fundamentals of how the framework works? Check out this great session #AppIntents #wwdc25
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/244
Learn how to implement interactive Snippets along with a lot of other cool new app intents APIs like Visual search, scene integrations and more #AppIntents #wwdc25
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/275
Check out the new interactive snippet feature coming in iOS 26 powered by #AppIntents #wwdc25
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/281
Apple should totally ditch the proprietary nature of #AppIntents and instead each app with intents should expose them through a mini #MCP server. Free all those actions from the confines of Siri and Shortcuts, and let apps freely trigger and combine each others’ actions.
Ok, Cloud Syncing is now working across #ios, #macOS, #tvOS, #visionOS, and #watchOS
Just need to get my #appIntents fully working and will have my first real MAJOR update to #wastedTime in a few years. Productive day so far.
Today I spent most of the day refactoring my app #wastedTime hope to post a new version soon, with improved #appintents and a long needed feature syncing stats across devices. #developer #swift #ios #VisionPro #tvos #macos #watchos
Well I spent most of the evening trying to completely refactor how my App managed state so that you could pick an item in SpotLight Search and go directly to that item. Right now it’s not worth it… have rolled back all that code. #developer #appintents
Started adding App Intents to some of my Apps. Latest TestFlight build of my app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/greeting-tracker/id6476050372 is currently testing two intents, 1) The date of the last card you've sent, and 2) which card you send most often. #apple #appintents #developer
I made my own “hints view" for Shortcuts if they're available in your current context. They show what you can say to Siri.
Apple made SiriTipView but they're a bit of an eye sore. heh.
I made an App Shortcut that takes a Trimet Stop ID in the Siri UI and then presents arrival times for that stop in the subsequent view. Works so quickly — probably a better experience than opening the app tbh!
Also, the HomePod experience for this just works! It will say the upcoming arrivals nicely since there’s no visual UI.
I think I am all set when it comes to App Shortcuts but will need to do a bit more testing for responses when using HomePod.
Have fun with your App Shortcut platters in the Shortcuts app by giving it a light and dark mode theme... don't be boring like all the others. :)
By the way, if your iOS ships #AppShortcuts with a custom background tile color (for the Shortcuts app), its most likely that it only works on iPhone and not iPad.
I was able to get it to work on iPad by making a duplicate entry in the info plist for “CFBundleIcons" to be “CFBundleIcons~ipad" because I remembered about "Device-Specific Keys" from this article.
So now my background tiles show up green on iPadOS Shortcuts app.
The same App Shortcuts/App Intents code from iOS “Just Works”™ on watchOS too. And the Bookmarks saved in the app sync via iCloud. Noice.
Each one makes a service call to get arrival times or alerts and for a watch, it’s pretty damn quick!
Once you get the hang of it, #AppIntents and #AppShortcuts are pretty easy to build.
In this case, it uses your bookmarked transit stops to get either arrival times or service alerts for that transit stops. It’ll display either in the Siri response UI.
Apple: l'evoluzione di Siri arriverà con iOS 19 e macOS 16
#AI #AppIntents #Apple #AssistenteAI #Bloomberg #ChatGPT #IntelligenzaArtificiale #iOS19 #iPad #Leak #LLM #Mac #macOS16 #MarkGurman #Notizie #Novità #Personalizzazione #Tecnologia
https://www.ceotech.it/apple-levoluzione-di-siri-arrivera-con-ios-19-e-macos-16/
Here’s my #AppIntents question of the day – is a Delete action a sufficient “Change in UI” to make “Open When Run” recommended?
Does removing something from the UI count as changing it? Should Siri take you into the app to show you it’s now not there anymore?
Show it Show When Run? Or just “do”?
Other apps don’t use Open When Run or Show When Run on Delete functions, so I’m not adding it for my clients – but I’m curious if this changes with Apple Intelligence.
#AppIntents developers – how do you make your intents accept plain text strings and match with an associated entity without the user selecting and instead being passed from a variable?
Is it through the entities(matching string: ) in IntentParameterDependency (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents/intentparameterdependency#overview) or by declaring an Associated Type in the Dynamic Options Provider (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents/dynamicoptionsprovider#Associated-Types)?
I believe @ian this was fixed in FB10211918 (Open Folder cannot accept text as a variable input)
#AppIntents developers, help me figure out how to specify the default value for a Result that is itself an entity.
In Shortcuts, the first property is the default, but I haven’t seen an implementation in code myself – does putting a property first up at the top make it the default?