SCAND Publishes Guidance for Businesses Navigating Apple’s SiriKit-to-App-Intents Transition

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, September 22, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — SCAND, a custom software development company with offices in the United States and Poland, has published guidance for iOS product teams following Apple’s formal deprecation of SiriKit at WWDC 2026, urging businesses to treat the transition to App Intents as a near-term product and distribution decision rather than a long-term technical cleanup task.

Apple deprecated SiriKit on June 9, 2026, during the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC 2026, signaling a shift toward App Intents for modern Siri, Apple Intelligence, Shortcuts, and Spotlight integrations. While SiriKit is expected to remain in the SDK for several more years, SCAND’s analysis highlights a much closer practical deadline: with iOS 27 expected in September 2026, an app that still relies on SiriKit may continue to compile, launch, and function normally while having limited visibility to the new Siri and Apple Intelligence experiences.

Why the Timeline Matters More Than the Technology

According to SCAND’s published analysis, available on the company’s blog, the business risk is not that non-migrated apps will suddenly break. It is that they may lose access to newer channels of reach, including voice-driven requests, semantic discovery in Spotlight, Apple Intelligence experiences, and cross-app AI-agent scenarios that App Intents are designed to support.

The key distinction is between the hard technical deadline and the business deadline. SCAND expects full SiriKit SDK removal around 2028–2029, but waiting for that date could mean waiting long after an app’s visibility and distribution opportunities have begun to change.

The guidance points to early adopters, including Uber, Amazon, YouTube, WhatsApp, and AllTrails, as examples of how established consumer products are already treating AI-agent accessibility as a potential distribution opportunity rather than simply another API migration.

SCAND’s recommendation for product leaders centers on four steps: auditing current SiriKit exposure and identifying which customer journeys depend on it; assessing the codebase and migration effort based on architecture and technical debt; planning backward from the iOS 27 release rather than waiting for SDK removal; and considering external engineering support when internal teams are already committed to other release priorities.

About SCAND

SCAND is a custom software development company that has been helping businesses build, modernize, and scale digital products for more than two decades, with offices in New York, USA, and Warsaw, Poland. The company provides end-to-end engineering services, including custom software development, mobile app development for iOS and Android, AI and machine learning solutions, cloud application development, legacy system modernization, and dedicated development teams.

SCAND’s mobile engineering team works with businesses on iOS app development and platform migrations, including support for adapting existing applications to Apple’s evolving Siri and Apple Intelligence ecosystem.

Evgeny Korsak 
SCAND
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