Apple says there's no chatbot -- but Shortcuts in iOS 26 says otherwise

Apple executives have said in interviews that the company isn't building a public chatbot. You can actually create one with a new action in iOS 26. Here's how.


There's a new action that gives you direct access to Apple Intelligence, and it responds to prompts just like ChatGPT or Claude. That wasn't a headline feature at WWDC 2025.

In fact, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, and Greg Joswiak, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, have said Apple isn't trying to build a chatbot.


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