Validate your App Intents adoption with AppIntentsTesting

A Podkey summary of Validate your App Intents adoption with AppIntentsTesting, from WWDC 2026. Today’s thread is AppIntentsTesting, which is a pretty practical shift in how you can test Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, and all that system-level app behavior without faking half of it. The big idea is simple: run the real intents in a separate test process, keep the tests fast and stable enough for CI, and catch the kind of bugs that usually hide in the seams between your app and the system. And once you see the examples, from seeding data to chaining intents to checking Spotlight and Siri annotations, it starts to feel less like a niche tool and more like something teams are going to want in the default toolbox. Why this framework matters Separate processes, more realistic tests How the tests discover and run intents Less boilerplate in assertions Test-only intents and deterministic setup A nice example of TDD with entity queries Chaining intents like a real Shortcut Catching regressions in Spotlight and Siri Why CI is such a good fit here This podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm