Your App Is Invisible to Siri on iOS 27 — Unless You Do This

WWDC 2026 didn’t just deprecate SiriKit. It changed who controls the front door of your app.

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If you skipped the Platforms State of the Union this year, here’s the sentence that should pull you back:

SiriKit is formally deprecated as of WWDC 2026. App Intents is now the only way Siri can reach into your app.

Not “encouraged.” Not “preferred.” The only way.

App Intents is now the only key that fits the lock. If your app doesn’t expose App Intents, Siri can’t discover it, invoke it, or include it in multi-app workflows.

That means if your app hasn’t migrated before iOS 27 ships publicly this fall, it simply won’t show up when the new Gemini-powered Siri tries to take action across apps. No voice commands. No shortcut chaining. No cross-app workflows. Invisible.

What Actually Changed at WWDC 2026

Apple rebuilt Siri around a new large language model architecture — one designed for natural, cross-app interactions rather than the command-matching approach of the original assistant. The new Siri AI isn’t just a smarter voice assistant; it’s a system-level agent that can chain actions across apps, understand on-screen context, and complete multi-step tasks without the user opening a single app.

The catch? It routes exclusively through App Intents.

At the Platforms State of the Union, Apple issued a formal deprecation notice for SiriKit — the INExtension and intent classes that many apps have relied on since iOS 10. Your existing SiriKit code will still compile under Xcode 27. You'll just get deprecation warnings. And your app will be invisible to the new Siri.

Based on Apple’s migration guidance, developers appear to have roughly a two-to-three-year window before SiriKit support is likely removed — somewhere around the iOS 29 timeframe. But the visibility hit starts now, the moment iOS 27 ships to devices this September.

How Siri AI Sees Your App (or Doesn’t)

Here’s the new reality in plain terms:

With App Intents             Without App Intents

User                         User
  ↓                            ↓
Siri AI                      Siri AI
  ↓                            ✕
App Intents               No App Intents
  ↓                            ↓
Your App ✅               App Invisible ❌

Siri AI routes every third-party action through App Intents. If you haven’t exposed your app’s capabilities through the framework, the assistant has no way to reach you — regardless of how long your app has been on the App Store.

In the SiriKit era, Siri knew about your app because you registered supported domains. In the Siri AI era, Siri knows about your app only through App Intents.

What Is App Intents, and Why Does It Matter So Much Now?

App Intents is a Swift framework that’s been available since iOS 16. It lets you expose your app’s actions and content to Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, and other system surfaces — without requiring the user to open the app.

Think of it as a machine-readable contract between your app and the OS. You declare: “My app can do these things, with these parameters, and here’s what to show when it’s done.” Siri reads that contract and can invoke your app’s capabilities on behalf of the user at any point — but only if that contract exists.

Here’s what a basic App Intent looks like — this is what “Reorder Last Order” looks like for a food delivery app:

import AppIntents

struct ReorderLastOrderIntent: AppIntent {
    static var title: LocalizedStringResource = "Reorder Last Order"
    static var description = IntentDescription("Reorders your most recent delivery.")

    func perform() async throws -> some IntentResult & ProvidesDialog {
        let order = try await OrderService.shared.fetchLastOrder()
        try await OrderService.shared.placeOrder(order)
        return .result(dialog: "Reordering \(order.name). Should arrive in 30–40 minutes.")
    }
}

Clean, declarative, and Siri-visible the moment it ships.

WWDC 2026 also introduced App Intents 2.0, which adds:

• Richer entity types — expose more complex data structures to Siri
• Multi-turn conversational follow-ups — Siri can ask clarifying questions mid-action
• Per-intent privacy manifest declarations — explicitly route sensitive actions on-device vs. cloud

The Migration: What You Actually Need to Do

Step 1 — Audit Your SiriKit Code

Open Xcode 27 and build. Every INExtension, INIntent, and INInteraction reference will now throw a deprecation warning. Start there. Inventory what your app currently exposes via SiriKit — voice commands, Shortcuts donations, intent handlers — and map each to an equivalent App Intent.

Step 2 — Pick Your Top 3–5 Actions

Don’t boil the ocean. Identify the three to five things users most want to trigger by voice or shortcut, and start there.

App Type First App Intent to Ship Food Delivery Reorder Last Order Banking Check Balance Notes Create Note Fitness Start Workout Photos Find Recent Screenshots E-commerce Track My Order Music Play My Liked Songs

These are your first AppIntent structs. Ship them before the public beta in July.

Step 3 — Declare On-Device vs. Cloud Routing

If your app handles health data, financial information, or anything regulated, use the new per-intent privacy manifest declarations to ensure those actions stay on-device. This is both a privacy win and a compliance requirement for many app categories.

Step 4 — Test on a Device with Apple Intelligence

Apple Intelligence and Siri AI require an iPhone 15 Pro or any iPhone 16+. The simulator won’t fully replicate the new Siri’s conversational flows or multi-turn behavior. Get a qualifying device into your testing rotation before July.

The Deadline Is Tighter Than It Looks

iOS 27 developer betas started June 8. Public beta lands in July. General availability is expected in September 2026, following Apple’s typical fall release pattern.

That’s roughly 90 days from today.

You don’t need to migrate every SiriKit integration before then. But if your app’s core Siri-facing functionality isn’t on App Intents by fall, your users will ask Siri to do something — and Siri will either redirect them to a competitor’s app or tell them it can’t help.

One more thing worth noting: Siri AI won’t be available in the EU or China at iOS 27 launch. Apple cited the EU’s Digital Markets Act as the reason for the exclusion. If your audience is primarily European, you have slightly more runway — but the deprecation clock is still ticking, and the migration is mandatory regardless of geography.

This Has Happened Before

Remember App Tracking Transparency? When Apple made it mandatory in iOS 14.5, teams that hadn’t prepared scrambled for weeks. Revenue dropped overnight for apps that hadn’t built a path forward.

The SiriKit → App Intents shift is the same moment playing out again. The mandatory thing is different — a machine-readable description of your app’s capabilities instead of a consent prompt — but the dynamic is identical.

Apps that migrate early become more visible and more useful to users the moment iOS 27 ships. Apps that wait will be invisible to an AI assistant that billions of people will have in their pocket by October.

Quick Reference: SiriKit vs App Intents

What to Do This Week

1. Build against the iOS 27 beta SDK and read every deprecation warning.
2. Identify your top user-facing actions that belong in Siri — use the table above as a starting point.
3. Ship at least one AppIntent before the public beta in July — even a simple one — so you understand the framework before the deadline pressure hits.
4. Join the WWDC labs running through June 12 on the Apple Developer app — you can book time directly with Apple engineers on the App Intents migration.

The migration isn’t optional anymore. But it’s also not as daunting as it looks. App Intents is a clean, modern Swift API, and the capabilities in version 2.0 let you build Siri integrations that are genuinely more powerful than anything SiriKit could do.

The transition away from SiriKit has started. The teams that migrate early will be ready when users begin relying on Siri AI workflows. The teams that wait may discover their app has quietly fallen out of the conversation.

The window is open. Migrate while it still feels early.

This article summarizes announcements and guidance shared during WWDC 2026 sessions and related Apple developer materials. Future timelines and removal schedules are based on current migration guidance and may change in future releases.