Apple Opens Siri AI App Skills for Cross-App Workflows

Apple is introducing 'App Skills' to allow third-party developers to integrate their apps with Siri, enabling complex multi-step tasks across different applications. This feature is scheduled to roll out in upcoming system updates such as iOS and macOS. This update marks a significant shift for Siri from responding to isolated, single-app commands to intelligently coordinating continuous workflows across multiple apps. It greatly expands the ecosystem utility of third-party applications by making them seamlessly callable through natural language requests. Users can now chain actions together, such as finding a saved item in a chat app and sending it to a contact, or contextually modifying actions without explicitly naming the target app when a live activity is active. These capabilities are currently rolling out to developers in testing phases.