Apple has announced app skills, an initiative that for the first time lets any third-party app build integrations with Siri AI. Skills also let apps teach Siri to coordinate multi-step actions. They arrive with iOS 27.3 and macOS 27.3, now in developer beta, ahead of a public release later this year.
A skill tells Siri which app intents to use for a type of request, as a flight-tracking app might. Apple's documentation imagines Siri finding favourite sneakers in one app, locating a partner in Contacts and sending them through a messaging app.
An iPhone showing the Siri AI interface in iOS 27
Image: 9to5Mac
With a ride-share Live Activity running, a request to change the address can reach that app unnamed.
About Siri AI
Apple first said in 2025 that a broader Apple Intelligence-based Siri overhaul would be delayed by technical challenges. Siri AI was then unveiled at WWDC on 8 June 2026, developed in partnership with Google Gemini.
Apple released it on 14 September 2026 as a beta in English with iOS 27, saying French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish would follow the next month. With iOS 27.2 it expanded language support, adding more languages by year end, while Siri AI stayed unavailable in the EU.
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The beta also widens Siri AI in Apple's own apps, from Music playlists and scheduled iMessages to Notes, Photos, Calendar, Reminders, Safari tab groups, Journal and Files, plus Weather, Maps, Preview and Shortcuts. 9to5Mac says app skills resemble what other LLM-driven assistants offer, with a fuller grasp of complex tasks.
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