These are all examples of the kinds of tasks that could be made easy. Of course, the beauty of AI extends far beyond being provided a service manual, booking collection and delivery, and ordering spare parts — all within one swift spoken Siri interaction.
In brief, MCP enables your device to interact in unique ways with multiple apps to get sometimes very complex tasks done, including all those tasks you keep meaning to do, but never get round to — for example, organizing your contacts database or building a better filing system in Notes.
App Intents+
Apple has also shown us some of what it plans in the form of App Intents and Shortcuts integrations. These offer similar sounding sets of tools to the above, and Apple has explained that App Intents for developers: “Provides functionality to deeply integrate your app’s actions and content with system experiences across platforms, including Siri, Spotlight, widgets, controls and more.” Add App Intents to Shortcuts and add a sprinkling of MCP and you can see what Apple is probably striving for.
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
