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Apple opens Siri AI to every app developer, with App Store submissions in the spring

Apps can now hand Siri their own actions, and Apple says the terms and usage policies come later.

By Think Facility · November 4, 2026 · Apple AI assistants Save

Part of a running story: Siri AI ios 27 (2 parts)

On November 3, 2026, Apple opened Siri AI to any developer. Starting with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3 and visionOS 27.3 betas, a Developer Preview lets an app bring its own content and actions into Siri AI through App Intents.

Users can't get any of it yet. Apple says the preview comes a few months before it first ships to customers, and App Store submission opens in the spring.

Who can build

any developer

Betas

iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3 and visionOS 27.3

Languages

English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish

App Store submission

opening up in the spring

Not available

in the EU on iOS, iPadOS and watchOS, or for users under 13

What an app can do with Siri AI

Thousands of developers had already built Siri integrations, Apple says, for jobs like directions, to-do lists, messages and audiobooks. The preview opens up Siri AI's newer abilities, which Apple lists as personal context understanding, onscreen awareness and natural language. A user asks in their own words, and Siri AI runs whatever custom action the developer built, from checking a delivery to placing an order.

Two more pieces matter for bigger apps. Skills let a developer teach Siri AI to chain several actions into one request. Siri AI can also pull up any entity in the Spotlight semantic index, including ones that don't fit an existing schema.

Apple has started with its own apps, among them Calendar, Files, Mail, Maps, Messages, Notes and Safari. Its examples are small: find a coffee shop you visited last week, or archive files that haven't been opened in over a year.

The rules for third-party apps aren't written yet.

What it means for people with an iPhone

This is the step that takes Siri AI outside Apple's own apps. Once it ships, a request to book a table or check a delivery can go to the app you already use, in your own words. Apple's pitch to developers is that more customers can discover and use apps "just by asking".

Who gets it is narrower. Siri AI needs an Apple Intelligence-enabled device set to a supported language, and it isn't available to users under 13. It's also unavailable in the EU on iOS, iPadOS and watchOS. Apple says it's working constructively with the EU to find a path forward, and it didn't give a date.

Server-side Apple Intelligence features, Siri AI among them, have daily usage limits that Apple says can vary with request complexity and system demand. Apple says expanded access will be available for a fee in the future. It hasn't said how much, or whether the user or the developer pays (I'd want that answered before building a business on it).

Where Siri AI stands

Siri AI first reached the public as a beta in iOS 27 (our September story). Apple says more languages are coming soon: Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese.

Developers with questions can book Apple Intelligence Group Labs with Apple engineers on November 4, 9 to 10 a.m. Pacific, and November 5, 6 to 7 p.m. Pacific.