---
title: "generate(message:previousMessages:)"
framework: Suggested Actions
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Method
platforms: [iOS 27.0+, iPadOS 27.0+, Mac Catalyst 27.0+, macOS 27.0+, visionOS 27.0+]
path: "suggestedactions/suggestedactionsview/generate(message:previousmessages:)"
---

# generate(message:previousMessages:)

Fetches and caches suggested actions for the provided message.

## Declaration

```swift
nonisolated static func generate(message: SuggestedActionsMessage, previousMessages: [SuggestedActionsMessage] = []) async
```

## Parameters

- `message`: The message that you want to generate suggested actions for.
- `previousMessages`: An array of messages that precede the provided message. The Suggested Actions framework uses them as context to generate suggested actions for the message. The system limits the number of previous messages it considers to the value of doc://com.apple.suggestedactions/documentation/SuggestedActions/SuggestedActionsMessage/previousMessagesLimit. This parameter defaults to an empty array if you don’t include previous messages.

## Discussion

Discussion Call this method ahead of presenting a SuggestedActionsView to generate and cache suggested actions for future use. When you later initialize the view with a SuggestedActionsMessage that has a matching id, the view uses the cached result and renders immediately without displaying a loading indicator. Generate suggested actions for future use when you know that a person is likely to see them soon, for example, when someone opens a conversation. You can call this method multiple times with different messages. Within a single conversation, the framework deduplicates suggestions: If a suggested action appears for an earlier message, it doesn’t appear again for later messages. The following example shows how an app might use a ChatManager class that processes an incoming message and creates a suggested actions view: @Observable class ChatManager {     private(set) var messages: [ChatMessage] = []

// Process a new incoming message and generate suggested     // actions to let the Suggested Actions framework cache them for future use.     func handleIncomingMessage(_ newMessage: ChatMessage) async {         await SuggestedActionsView.generate(             message: newMessage.suggestedActionsMessage,             previousMessages: newMessage.previousMessages                 .suffix(SuggestedActionsMessage.previousMessagesLimit)                 .map(\.suggestedActionsMessage)         )         messages.append(newMessage)     } }

## See Also

### Displaying suggested actions

- [init(message:previousMessages:)](suggestedactions/suggestedactionsview/init(message:previousmessages:).md)
- [SuggestedActionsMessage](suggestedactions/suggestedactionsmessage.md)