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# Core Spotlight updates

Learn about important changes to Core Spotlight.

## Overview

Browse notable changes in <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/CoreSpotlight>.

## July 2026

- Follow the <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/CoreSpotlight/searching-indexed-content-with-natural-language> sample app to learn how you can give a language model access to your app’s Core Spotlight index and let people use natural language to search your app’s content.

## June 2026

- Make your app’s indexed content available to Foundation models using <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/CoreSpotlight/SpotlightSearchTool>.
- Refer to your Spotlight indexes when reindexing entities using <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/CoreSpotlight/CSSearchableIndexDescription>.

## June 2024

- Search your indexed content for items that are similar in meaning to the query string, but not necessarily a lexical match, using <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/CoreSpotlight/CSUserQuery>. Disable this semantic search support using the <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/CoreSpotlight/CSUserQueryContext/disableSemanticSearch> property of <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/CoreSpotlight/CSUserQueryContext>.

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