European iPhones miss out as Apple lets outside apps tap into Siri AI
In the first iOS 27.3 beta, developers can connect their own actions and multi-step 'skills' to Siri; on the App Store that will only be possible from spring.
Apple on Tuesday released the first beta of iOS 27.3 and with it opened a developer preview of Siri AI to every app, MacRumors reports. Until now Siri could only act in other companies' apps within predefined categories. Developers can now offer their own actions through the App Intents framework and use so-called skills to guide Siri through multi-step tasks. According to PPC Land, those skills are Markdown files following part of the open Agent Skills format, and Xcode gains testing tools to assess the integration.
The preview is part of the iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS 27.3 betas. Customers should notice something within a few months, according to Apple; apps with these features can only enter the App Store in spring, iPhone in Canada writes. Apple's own apps, from Calendar and Mail to Maps and Messages, already use the capabilities. Terms of use for developers are still to come.
For Belgian users there is one major limitation: Siri AI is not available in the European Union on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, which Apple links to its reading of the Digital Markets Act. On the Mac and Vision Pro, Europeans have been able to use it since September, PPC Land reports. An iPhone app that taps into Siri AI will therefore not reach European iPhone users for now.