Siri AI finally works with your app. Here's how to be ready by spring.

For more than a decade, Siri has been the assistant everyone had and almost nobody relied on. It could set a timer or send a text, but ask it to do anything inside the apps you actually use and you hit a wall. On November 3, 2026, that wall finally came down. Apple opened Siri AI to every app, which means your customers will soon be able to ask Siri to reorder, check on a delivery, or book an appointment, and have it happen inside your app.

Your competitors got the same news you did. Apps can’t ship it until spring 2027, so the race is happening now, quietly, in development. The brands that start this month will be the ones Siri can work with on day one.

What changed with the Siri AI developer preview

Until now, Siri could only work with other companies’ apps for a short list of tasks Apple defined, like sending a message or getting directions. With the Siri AI developer preview, any app can teach Siri its own actions. Apps do this through App Intents, the same framework behind Shortcuts and Spotlight. A customer asks in plain language, and Siri completes the task inside your app and shows the result with your branding.

Here’s what that looks like. David Castaño, one of our engineers, built this prototype on the Scooter’s Coffee app. A customer asks Siri for the menu, narrows it down to lattes, and Siri pulls the answer straight from the Scooter’s app without the customer ever opening it.

The bigger shift

This is bigger than Siri. For thirty years, people found what they needed the same few ways: type a search, scroll the results, tap an icon, dig through a menu. Those entry points are eroding. In their place is something far more personal, a conversation with an assistant that knows your context and what’s on your screen, and simply does what you asked.

When the front door is a conversation, discovery stops being about ranking on a page or winning a spot on the home screen. It becomes about whether the assistant understands what you offer and can act on it for the person asking. Siri opening up is the moment that shift lands in your customers’ pockets.

The timeline: build now, ship in spring

During the preview, Siri AI integrations run only in development-signed builds and for internal TestFlight testers, not for external testers or App Store users. They need a device that supports Apple Intelligence, and Apple says the App Intents API may still change.

Development and testing can start today, and every month you wait comes out of a fixed window.

What it means for your business

This is a new front door. Customers can use your services without ever opening your app, and when they ask Siri, the brands that did the work get the order. Apps that didn’t simply aren’t an option.

It also changes what your storefront is. The way you describe your app’s actions decides whether Siri understands what customers are asking for. And because orders that start with Siri arrive with less tracking context, it pays to decide how you’ll measure them before launch.

Remember the early App Store: the first apps people learned to rely on became habits that were hard to break. Siri is about to have that moment.

How VGV gets your app ready for Siri AI

We take you from “should we care?” to an integration that’s ready to submit the day the App Store opens. We start by finding the few customer tasks where Siri adds the most value, then design and build them on Apple’s new frameworks, whether your app is native iOS or Flutter, where the Siri integration is a thin native layer over your Dart code. We prove they work with automated testing on Apple’s new evaluation tools, so you see the quality before your customers do. And we track Apple’s terms as they land, so you’re ready to ship when the window opens.

There are three ways to start. The first is free: a 30-minute call where we look at your app and name the first Siri actions worth building. When you’re ready to build, fixed-price packages start at $5,000 for small products and $15,000 for medium products, with a set scope and a clear finish line. Larger organizations with many apps or complex flows get a custom engagement scoped to fit.

Ready to be first?

Teams that start now will be ready the day submissions open. Teams that wait for spring will be starting while their competitors ship. Book 30 minutes with VGV and we’ll help you choose and build your first Siri actions.

Sources

• Siri AI is now open to all developers (Apple Developer)
• Siri AI Developer Preview (Apple Developer Documentation)
• Apple opens Siri AI to all developers in the iOS 27.3 beta (Runtime Wire)
• Apple Just Opened Siri AI to Every App (iPhone in Canada)
• Apple opens Siri AI to all developers (Digital Trends)
• WWDC 2026: Apple introduces Siri AI (MacTech)