Siri Shortcuts on the Siri Watch Face

WWDC 2018

Development Configuration

Settings > Developer

Shortcuts

Supported by watch app

Not supported by watch app

Relevant Shortcut

Relevant Shortcut Appearnce

Default Card Temeplate

Intent Confirmation

Short Strings

Relevance Provider

• Describe content relevance
• Evaluated against time, location, and routine
• Provide array to INRelevantShortcut

Refresh Background Task

• WKRelevantShortcutRefreshBackgroundTask
  Scheduled by user engagement
• WKIntentDidRunRefreshBackgroundTask
  Update UI (Snapshot, complication)

Predicting Shortcuts

• Content is ordered by relevance
• User interaction instructs ordering
• Provide engaging and relevant content

NSUserActivity Donation

• Set .eligibleForPrediction and .eligibleForSearch
• Supported activity types in Info.plist
• Donate when visible

INIntent Donations

• Using INInteraction
• Indicate primary shortcut type

Primary Shortcut Type

• Indicate primary use case
• One per intent
• Subset of Relevant Shortcut parameters
• Quickly identify patterns

Predicting Relevant Shortcuts

Relevance Providers

INDateRelevanceProvider

INLocationRelevanceProvider

• Provide a CLRegion
• Change region interpretation
  notifyOnEntity, notifyOnExit
• Requires location authorization
• Location updates are limited

Providing Personalization

• Use INDailyRoutineRelevanceProvider
• Meaningful times or locations to the user
• Personalized to each user
• Morning (after user wakes up)
• Evening (before going to bed)
• Location (home, work, school, gym)
• Similar to INDateRelevanceProvider

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