This post is from the WWDC26 App Intents & Siri Q&A.
The Keynote/SOTU mentioned that phone hardware wise, only iPhone Air and 17 Pro are getting the highest quality local models. Does this only impact 1st party system features, or does that impact us as well? In other words, will our schema conforming App Intents behave differently on this subset of devices. Or is testing on any Apple Intelligence supported hardware sufficient?
You can use the new AppIntentsTesting framework with Xcode to validate your App Intents functionality—your actions, intent donations, Spotlight indexing, and more—and you can try out interactions with Siri on any Apple Intelligence-capable device. Together these should ensure your app works well with Siri.
