Where is Swift Assist?
It’s vaporware at worst; it’ll suck at best.
Apple demoed Swift Assist at the WWDC24, and it’s almost time for WWDC25. Where is Swift Assist? It’s a good question. At this point, it might never come out.
While we could believe Apple would want to forget about it, that’s not the case. It’s still mentioned on the WWDC24 website, and their press release from last June is still up.
Swift Assist was teased as the most basic AI feature we could wish for Xcode. Give me some Swift code from a prompt. Everyone and their grandmother is doing that now. Maybe it was still in the “impressive” bucket last year; now, it's just basic. Now we have Cursor Agent, Windsurf, and the MCP (Model Context Protocol) to make interoperability possible between LLM and tools.
And what do we have within Xcode? Nothing. Apple's yearly release cadence and developer tool experience are definitely not there for this new AI Age.
Sorry, we do have some local auto-completion Xcode model, but it’s not that great. Sure, it runs locally, privacy, yada yada. I personally find the GitHub Xcode extension better. And it’s from MICROSOFT. Do you see the irony?
While it’s not a full VSCode/Cursor experience, at least it’s smart enough to know exactly what I’ll write next so I can just tab tab tab instead of writing code.
But you know what? I don’t care anymore about Swift Assist. I have access to notepad.exe from Marcin Krzyzanowski, and it has Swift Assist built in. So we don’t need Swift Assist from our corporate overlord anymore.
Also, we’ll be forever checking isswiftassistavailable.com/
Swift Assist is dead; long live to Swift Assist!
