Core Spotlight updates

Overview

Browse notable changes in Core Spotlight.

July 2026

• Follow the Searching indexed content with natural language sample app to learn how you can give a language model access to your app’s Core Spotlight index and let people use natural language to search your app’s content.

June 2026

• Make your app’s indexed content available to Foundation models using SpotlightSearchTool.

• Refer to your Spotlight indexes when reindexing entities using CSSearchableIndexDescription.

June 2024

• Search your indexed content for items that are similar in meaning to the query string, but not necessarily a lexical match, using CSUserQuery. Disable this semantic search support using the disableSemanticSearch property of CSUserQueryContext.

See Also

Technology and frameworks

• Accelerate updates
• Accessibility updates
• ActivityKit updates
• AdAttributionKit Updates
• App Clips updates
• App Intents updates
• AppKit updates
• Apple Intelligence updates
• AppleMapsServerAPI Updates
• Apple Pencil updates
• ARKit updates
• Audio Toolbox updates
• AuthenticationServices updates
• AVFAudio updates
• AVFoundation updates