What you'll learn

Most iOS apps are islands — their most useful actions only work if a user opens the app and navigates to the right screen. In this course, App Intents and AI-powered Experiences in iOS, you'll gain the ability to make your app's key actions discoverable, automatable, and intelligent across the system. First, you'll explore how to identify high-value app actions and turn them into App Intents and App Shortcuts that surface in Siri, Spotlight, and the Shortcuts app. Next, you'll discover how to model your app's content with App Entities and Queries so the system can resolve parameters and reason about your data, integrate those actions with Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, and Apple Intelligence, and present results with interactive snippets. Finally, you'll learn how to add focused, on-device AI features using Foundation Models — including guided generation, structured output, streaming, and tool calling — while applying the safety, privacy, and validation guardrails needed to ship trustworthy AI-powered experiences. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge needed to build iOS apps whose functionality reaches beyond their own UI, safely and usefully.