--- title: SwiftUI: App Intents Make Spotlight Integration Easy! description: A practical guide to integrating Apple Spotlight search into SwiftUI apps using the App Intents framework. Covers creating IndexedEntity conformance,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/swiftui-app-intents-make-spotlight-integration-easy--5q5lefxjh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: SwiftUI: App Intents Make Spotlight Integration Easy! | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide to integrating Apple Spotlight search into SwiftUI apps using the App Intents framework. Covers creating IndexedEntity conformance,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/swiftui-app-intents-make-spotlight-integration-easy--5q5lefxjh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5q5LeFxjH.png og:image:alt: SwiftUI: App Intents Make Spotlight Integration Easy! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # SwiftUI: App Intents Make Spotlight Integration Easy! **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical guide to integrating Apple Spotlight search into SwiftUI apps using the App Intents framework. Covers creating IndexedEntity conformance, specifying indexable properties with @Property/@ComputedProperty wrappers, registering entities with CSSearchableIndex in one line, adding a custom OpenIntent for deep linking, supporting re-indexing via IndexedEntityQuery, and hiding specific entities from Spotlight. Includes a notable pitfall: when using a custom attributeSet, the title must be explicitly set there or via a property wrapper — it is not automatically merged from displayRepresentation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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