Apple will now allow Siri AI to perform actions on third-party apps. As part of the iOS 27.3 update rollout on Tuesday, Apple announced that developers can now integrate new Siri AI features into “all apps,” allowing the voice assistant to draw on a user’s personal context, process natural language prompts, and use on-screen recognition to respond to requests.
The update, which is rolling out as part of a Developer Preview, also adds a new “app skills” feature that third-party developers can create to combine multiple tasks into a single action. In Apple’s developer documentation, the company says users won’t have to mention an app’s name in their request when it’s in the foreground, during live activity, or when talking to Siri AI about the app.
“For example, a person can request a ride with a ridesharing app, track live activity updates from the app while they wait for their ride to arrive, and then request to move the pickup location to a different address by saying ‘Hey Siri, change the pickup for my ride to a new address,'” Apple explains. As noted 9to5MacApple previously made a smaller set of features available to third-party developers.
Apple is also bringing Siri AI’s expanded capabilities to its own apps, including Calendar, Files, Finder, Journal, Mail, Maps, Messages, Music, Notes, Photos, Overview, Reminders, Safari, Shortcuts, and Weather. “Users can do things like find a coffee shop they visited last week or archive files that haven’t been opened in over a year,” according to Apple. The company notes that users can ask Siri AI what it can do in each app.
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