Can I index the same items in core spotlight that I offer as app entities to app intents indexing?

Asked on 2025-07-12

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Yes, you can index the same items in Core Spotlight that you offer as app entities to app intents indexing. The new APIs introduced allow you to index your app entities in Spotlight, which brings powerful semantic search capabilities to app entities. You can use the IndexedEntity protocol to index your app entities to the CSS Searchable Index, and you can also associate an app entity with your searchable item using the associateAppEntity method before indexing it. This integration allows your app entities to appear in Spotlight search results and helps Siri understand and find them.

For more details, you can refer to the session What’s new in App Intents (01:47).

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