Apple Intelligence is falling behind its AI rivals, and the fact that its Swift Assist coding tool is missing in action has me worried for its future.

Swift has come a long way in the meantime, and with tools like code completion and Swift Assist, Apple is catching up with competitors like Microsoft that have used AI to enhance developer tools for a ...

The feature is called Swift Assist and Apple has pledged to build it into its Xcode coding app. The idea is it can be used to generatively write sections of code for you.

The company also announced that developers can use API keys to bring AI models from other providers to Xcode for AI-powered programming suggestions.