John Gillilan

@bondad
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he/him —📍Seattle — finding my way as a new  developer — all things voice and sound — Siri calls me Jason Risotto
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Just By Speakinghttps://justbyspeaking.com
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My orca Genmoji has been Sherlocked. Thank you for your service.
I’ll just add CarPlay real quick. It will be easy! 🫠

Any examples of apps with good first time experiences for VoiceOver users?

Any apps that have crafted a VoiceOver specific onboarding, rather than just making the visual onboarding accessible?

person on the the street lighting a smoke through their Vision Pro
Apple removed my app from the App Store for an intellectual property violation for using the word Siri in my app description to promote my App Shortcut.
I’ve fallen into an App Review sarlacc pit and it’s getting bleak.
I’m presenting tonight at Xcoders Seattle! My talk is called “Tapping Into Visual Intelligence in iOS 26“. We’ll be wiring up an app integration into the system using App Intents, Core Video and Vision frameworks. https://xcoders.org/2025/09/04/september-xcoders-presentations.html
September Xcoders Presentations

@mgorbach Hey Michael, here's an open feedback I have on the AppEntity synonyms issue we discussed last week. https://justbyspeaking.com/2024/08/16/fb.html
 FB14827045 - Just By Speaking

iOS 17 introduced a new synonyms API to the App Intents framework. Developers can provide an array of synonyms on their AppEntity or AppEnum cases, which is supposed to give users more flexibility with their spoken App Shortcut phrases. But in my experience, these synonyms are not actually recognized by Siri or Spotlight.

Just got a response from a feedback I filed last September. The Siri logo has been added in the new SF Symbols 7 beta. Would they have done this anyway? Maybe! But I’ll take the mini win.

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Please add SF Symbols to represent Siri. I would use this symbol to create my own user ed around utterances users can say as Shortcuts.

📍Apple Park, Cupertino, WWDC25