{"slug": "apple-starts-giving-siri-ai-access-to-third-party-apps", "title": "Apple starts giving Siri AI access to third-party apps", "summary": "Apple announced that developers can now integrate Siri AI's new features into \"all apps\" through the iOS 27.3 Developer Preview, letting the voice assistant use personal context, natural language prompts, and on-screen awareness to complete requests across third-party apps. The update adds an \"app skills\" feature that lets developers combine several tasks into a single action, and Apple says users won't need to name an app while it's in the foreground, during a Live Activity, or in a Siri AI conversation about the app. Apple is also extending the capabilities to its own apps, including Calendar, Files, Finder, Journal, Mail, Maps, Messages, Music, Notes, Photos, Preview, Reminders, Safari, Shortcuts, and Weather.", "body_md": "Apple will now let Siri AI perform actions across third-party apps. As part of the iOS 27.3 update rolling out on Tuesday, Apple [announced developers](https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=gdk2umrf) can now integrate Siri AI’s new features in “all apps,” allowing the voice assistant to draw on a user’s personal context, process natural language prompts, and use on-screen awareness to complete requests.\n\n# Apple starts giving Siri AI access to third-party apps\n\nSiri AI will soon be able to carry out tasks across a wider range of apps.\n\nThe update, which is rolling out as part of a Developer Preview, also adds a new “app skills” feature that third-party developers can create to combine several tasks into a single action. In [Apple’s developer documentation](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents/siri-ai-developer-preview), the company says users won’t have to mention an app’s name in their request while it’s in the foreground, during a Live Activity, or in a conversation with Siri AI about the app.\n\n“For example, a person might request a ride with a ride share app, follow updates to the app’s Live Activity while they wait for their ride to arrive, then request to move the pickup location to a different address by saying ‘Hey Siri, change my ride pickup to a new address,’” Apple says. As [noted by *9to5Mac*](https://9to5mac.com/2026/11/03/developers-can-now-create-advanced-app-skills-for-siri-ai/), Apple previously made a smaller set of features available to third-party developers.\n\nApple is bringing Siri AI’s expanded capabilities to its own apps as well, including Calendar, Files, Finder, Journal, Mail, Maps, Messages, Music, Notes, Photos, Preview, Reminders, Safari, Shortcuts, and Weather apps. “Users can do things like find a coffee shop they visited last week or archive files that haven’t been opened in over a year,” according to Apple. The company notes that users can ask Siri AI what it can do in each app.\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-starts-giving-siri-ai-access-to-third-party-apps", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/1025694/apple-siri-ai-third-party-apps", "published_at": "2026-11-03 20:16:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-03 20:23:45.849368+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Apple", "Siri AI", "iOS 27.3", "9to5Mac", "Calendar", "Safari", "Shortcuts", "Weather"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-starts-giving-siri-ai-access-to-third-party-apps", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-starts-giving-siri-ai-access-to-third-party-apps.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-starts-giving-siri-ai-access-to-third-party-apps.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-starts-giving-siri-ai-access-to-third-party-apps.jsonld"}}