App Intents

Make your app's actions and content available to Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight and widgets.

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Introduced

2022

WWDC22

Kind

Framework

Runs on

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iOS

16.0+

iPadOS

16.0+

Mac Catalyst

16.0+

macOS

13.0+

tvOS

16.0+

visionOS

1.0+

watchOS

9.0+

Siri runs the intent and speaks its dialog, without opening the app.

Overview

App Intents describes what your app can do, and what it knows about, in plain Swift. The system uses it everywhere: Shortcuts, Spotlight, widgets, Control Center, the Action button and Siri.

With App Schemas, Siri can understand your content, take actions from natural language and work with what's on screen, often without opening your app.

Siri

Answer questions and take actions from natural language.

Shortcuts

Every intent becomes an action people can automate.

Spotlight

Indexed entities show up in search, matched by meaning.

Controls and widgets

Power buttons in Control Center, the Lock Screen and the Action button.

StartWorkout.swift

import AppIntents

struct StartWorkout: AppIntent {
    static let title: LocalizedStringResource = "Start Workout"

    @Parameter(title: "Minutes")
    var minutes: Int

    func perform() async throws -> some IntentResult & ProvidesDialog {
        try await WorkoutManager.shared.start(minutes: minutes)
        return .result(dialog: "Starting a \(minutes)-minute workout.")
    }
}

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