Trevor Whittingham • 6/10/2026

Chat With Your App's Data Using Core Spotlight And SpotlightSearchTool

This article discusses how to integrate Core Spotlight with SpotlightSearchTool in iOS apps to enable natural language querying of app data. It explains the retrieval boundary concept, where apps donate searchable items to Spotlight and use SpotlightSearchTool to provide context to language models. The article includes code snippets for a notebook app example, covering data donation, hydration, and UI updates. It emphasizes a clean architecture that avoids direct database access by models, making search and retrieval efficient and scalable.

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