spotlight
Asked on 2025-06-16
4 searches
Spotlight received significant updates as presented in the WWDC sessions. Here are some key highlights:
-
Keynote (WWDC 2025): Spotlight on Mac has become the fastest way to browse content, offering intelligent suggestions based on user routines and current activities. It now supports system and app actions, allowing users to perform tasks like creating events or sending emails directly from Spotlight. Additionally, Quick Keys have been introduced for faster access to actions (Keynote).
-
Support Semantic Search with Core Spotlight (WWDC 2024): Core Spotlight now supports semantic search, allowing users to find content in apps using search terms that are similar in meaning, rather than requiring exact matches. This enhances the search experience by providing more relevant results (Support semantic search with Core Spotlight).
-
What’s New in App Intents (WWDC 2024): New APIs have been introduced to index app entities in Spotlight, leveraging its powerful semantic search capabilities. This allows apps to expose useful features and content directly in Spotlight (What’s new in App Intents).
-
Develop for Shortcuts and Spotlight with App Intents (WWDC 2025): Apps can now show actions in Spotlight by adopting app intents, similar to how they do for shortcuts. This integration allows users to run app actions directly from Spotlight on Mac (Develop for Shortcuts and Spotlight with App Intents).
These updates make Spotlight a more powerful tool for both users and developers, enhancing productivity and app integration.
Keynote
Don’t miss the exciting reveal of the latest Apple software and technologies.
Support semantic search with Core Spotlight
Learn how to provide semantic search results in your app using Core Spotlight. Understand how to make your app’s content available in the user’s private, on-device index so people can search for items using natural language. We’ll also share how to optimize your app’s performance by scheduling indexing activities. To get the most out of this session, we recommend first checking out Core Spotlight documentation on the Apple Developer website.
What’s new in App Intents
Learn about improvements and all-new features with App Intents, and discover how this framework can help you expose your app’s functionality to Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, and more. We’ll show you how to make your entities more meaningful to the platform with the Transferable API, File Representations, new IntentFile APIs, and Spotlight Indexing, opening up powerful functionality in Siri and the Shortcuts app. Empower your intents to take people deep into your app with URL Representable Entities. Explore new techniques to model your entities and intents with new APIs for error handling and union values.