Apple Developers Question Future of Delayed Swift Assist Feature
Despite being announced at WWDC 2024, Apple’s AI-powered coding tool Swift Assist has yet to appear, leaving developers frustrated and uncertain about its release.
- Swift Assist, an AI-powered tool designed to generate Swift code from natural language prompts, was announced at WWDC 2024 with a planned release later that year.
- Nine months later, the feature has not been released or entered beta testing, and Apple has provided no updates on its status or potential delay.
- Unlike the simpler predictive code completion feature, which shipped as part of Xcode 16, the more ambitious Swift Assist remains absent from release notes and developer updates.
- Developers are turning to third-party tools like Cursor for similar functionality, but many express frustration that Apple has not delivered a tool tailored to Swift and its APIs.
- Speculation grows that Swift Assist may be postponed to Xcode 17 or quietly canceled, with some developers criticizing Apple for falling behind in AI advancements.
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