what about spotlight?
Asked on 06/11/2025
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Spotlight received significant updates as presented at WWDC. Here are some of the key enhancements:
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Speed and Accessibility: Spotlight is now the fastest way to browse content on Mac, providing quick access to relevant files and intelligent suggestions based on user routines or current activities. It also allows launching apps that are only available on your iPhone through iPhone mirroring.
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System and App Actions: You can perform hundreds of actions directly from Spotlight, such as creating events, starting audio recordings, or playing podcasts. This can be done without switching apps, and you can fill out parameters for actions directly in Spotlight.
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Developer Integration: For developers, app content and actions can be made discoverable in Spotlight using the App Intents API. This allows apps to show actions in Spotlight by adopting app intents, similar to how they are used for shortcuts.
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Semantic Search: Core Spotlight now supports semantic search, allowing users to search for content in a more natural way, with search terms that can be similar in meaning.
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Quick Keys: Introduced to make taking action in Spotlight even faster, Quick Keys are short strings of characters that quickly get you to what you're looking for.
For more detailed information, you can refer to the sessions like Keynote and Develop for Shortcuts and Spotlight with App Intents.
Keynote
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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.
Develop for Shortcuts and Spotlight with App Intents
Learn about how building App Intents that make actions available and work best with the new features in Shortcuts and Spotlight on Mac. We’ll show you how your actions combine in powerful ways with the new Apple Intelligence actions available in the Shortcuts app. We’ll deep-dive into how the new “Use Model” action works, and how it interacts with your app’s entities. And we’ll discuss how to use the App Intents APIs to make your actions available in Spotlight.