Apple Opens Siri AI to All Developers in iOS 27.3 Beta, Adds Multi-Step ‘Skills’

Apple on Tuesday opened Siri AI to every developer. In a post on its developer news site dated November 3, the company said a new Developer Preview, starting with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3 and visionOS 27.3 betas, “enables any developer to integrate their app with Siri AI.” Until now, third-party hooks into the new Siri were limited to a narrower set of supported actions.

What developers get

The preview runs through App Intents, the framework apps already use to expose actions to Siri and Shortcuts. Apple says any app can now bring its own content and custom actions into Siri AI and tap the assistant’s personal context understanding, onscreen awareness and natural-language handling. Apple’s examples include checking a delivery, booking a reservation and placing an order, with people asking in their own words rather than a fixed phrase.

Two additions stand out. The first is “skills,” which let developers teach Siri AI to chain several actions into a single request. The second is Spotlight: Siri AI can now surface any entity in the Spotlight semantic index, not only the ones that fit one of Apple’s existing schemas. The Verge notes that, per Apple’s documentation, users won’t need to name an app when it’s in the foreground, running a Live Activity, or already the subject of a conversation with Siri AI. Apple’s example is moving a ride-share pickup by saying “Hey Siri, change my ride pickup to a new address” while the app’s Live Activity is on screen.

Apple’s own apps go first

Apple says it has started rolling the same capabilities into 15 of its own apps: Calendar, Files, Finder, Journal, Mail, Maps, Messages, Music, Notes, Photos, Preview, Reminders, Safari, Shortcuts and Weather. Its examples are finding a coffee shop you visited last week or archiving files that haven’t been opened in over a year. Apple says users can ask Siri AI what it can do inside each app.

When it reaches your iPhone

This is a developer beta, not a consumer release. Apple says third-party experiences will first ship to customers “in a few months,” and App Store submissions open in the spring. It also says it will share terms and usage policies for Siri AI experiences later, and is hosting Apple Intelligence Group Labs with its engineers on November 4–5.

The usual caveats apply. Siri AI needs an Apple Intelligence-capable device set to a supported language (currently English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish), remains unavailable in the EU on iOS, iPadOS and watchOS, and isn’t offered to users under 13. Apple also says server-side features including Siri AI are subject to daily usage limits, with expanded access to come “for a fee in the future.”

Sources: Apple Developer, The Verge, Digital Trends