Apple Intelligence

Overview

Apple Intelligence is the personal intelligence system behind built-in capabilities across Apple platforms. It runs on-device on Apple silicon and in Private Cloud Compute. Your app participates by teaching the system about its actions and content so system features — Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, Writing Tools, Image Playground, Visual Intelligence, Genmoji, and summaries — can use them.

The participation contract is the App Intents framework: an AppIntent wraps one of your app's actions; an AppEntity represents the data those actions operate on. Apple Intelligence uses donated intents/entities, your Spotlight index, and declared schemas to find and act on your content — even when described vaguely.

Two sibling skills handle the custom-model side and are out of scope here: