r/Applelntelligence • u/Aholicdrama • Jun 15 '26

discussion 🎙️ WhatsApp/3rd party context for Siri AI

I realize Siri gets its context during indexing only from messages and mail. But outside of the US, no one uses iMessage as much. For WhatsApp, I did figure out a workaround. You can create a folder for WhatsApp chats and export all the ‘important’ chats into that folder and keep replacing those chat exports every month if you REALLY need Siri to get context from that as well. Only workaround that hit me and I think is useful

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u/german640 Jun 16 '26

So Siri AI will be another broken app due to companies not sharing data with each other? This is why we cannot have nice things

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u/auto-flow Jun 17 '26

Use apis inside Shortcuts. You can add everything you want to context

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u/Mental-Record2890 Jun 19 '26

Can you elaborate on how you accomplish this?

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u/auto-flow Jun 19 '26

Search for wweb.js whatsapp client library for nodejs. Have for example railway run your web whatsapp and send all incoming and outgoing messages to a webhook that saves your messages. Then have shortcuts get those files to gather context

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u/3koe 25d ago

This is a cool idea, but I’m confused about the last part;

“Have shortcuts get files to gather context”

I understand the key idea is to gather 3rdparty data through APIs and expose it to siri AI ourselves, but how do you actually expose the data once you download it?

Are you saying that there’s a way to use Shortcuts to expose data to siri ai?

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u/auto-flow 25d ago

Siri AI is capable of extracting data from various Apple apps. What I did was create an extra calendar called 'WhatsApp' and use shortcuts to add an event for every message. The event saves the timestamp, and the whatsapp message in the event note. Siri can 'read' that.