App entity spotlight

Generated on 8/10/2024

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In the session titled "What’s new in App Intents" at WWDC 2024, Apple introduced new features for integrating app entities with Spotlight. By using the new indexedentity protocol, developers can index their app entities in Spotlight, allowing for powerful semantic search capabilities. This enables users to search for app content directly in Spotlight without opening the app.

To achieve this, developers need to:

  1. Add conformance to the indexedentity protocol for their app entities.
  2. Use the CSSearchableIndex to index these entities.
  3. Optionally, customize the attribute set to provide additional information like location or keywords, enhancing the relevance of search results.

Additionally, if an application is already using the CSSearchableItem API, the new associate app entity method can be used to link an app entity with a searchable item, further improving search capabilities.

For more details, you can refer to the Spotlight integration section of the session "What’s new in App Intents".

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