Apple will now allow Siri AI to perform actions in third-party apps. As part of the iOS 27.3 update that rolled out Tuesday, Apple announced that developers can now integrate new Siri AI features into “every app,” allowing the voice assistant to rely on a user’s personal context, process natural language prompts, and use on-screen knowledge to complete requests. In Apple’s developer documentation, the company says that users will not have to mention an app’s name in their request while it is in the foreground, during a live activity, or in a conversation with Siri AI about the app. “For example, a person can request a ride with a ride-sharing app, follow the app’s live activity updates while waiting for their ride to arrive, then request to move the pickup location to a different address by saying ‘Hey Siri, move my ride pickup to a new address,'” Apple says. As 9to5Mac noted, Apple previously made a smaller set of features available to third-party developers. Apple is also bringing Siri AI’s expanded capabilities to its own apps, including Calendar, Files, Finder, Diary, 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.
