At WWDC 2024, Apple announced Swift Assist, an AI-powered coding companion integrated into Xcode 16 that's designed to assist developers by generating code from natural language prompts.At the time, Apple said Swift Assist would be coming "later this year." We're now three months into 2025, and it's nowhere to be seen.Unlike Apple Intelligence, Swift Assist never appeared in beta.
Apple hasn't announced that it's been delayed or cancelled.The company has since released Xcode 16.3 beta 2, and as Michael Tsai points out, it's not even mentioned in the release notes.Swift Assist is different from the new predictive code completion engine in Xcode 16 that can suggest the code developers need and runs locally on a developer's device.
Here's how Apple described Swift Assist in its Platforms State of the Union: Unfortunately, any initial excitement has long been replaced by frustration.Check out some of the comments from the developer community: Jbmaxwell: Asteng88: Rennarda: It's a bad look for Apple, especially given the current controversy surrounding Apple's delayed personalized Siri features.WWDC 2025 is less than three months away, and it seems that developers are beginning to wonder whether they'll ever see Swift Assist in Xcode 16 at all.
We've reached out to Apple for comment.
