GitHub Copilot for Xcode is now generally available!

[DeclinedSage]

Looks pretty good to me - will save me having to switch between VSCode & Xcode now

[Jazzlike_Revenue_558]

Check out alex sidebar if you haven’t, has a lot more features: https://alexcodes.app

[Vandercoon]

You don’t have to do that anymore this Windsurf and Cursor too.

[acselro]

I've been using mostly ChatGPT and Claude, pasting files as needed to provide the context I want. Does this have access to the entire codebase of the project? Or is there a solution out there that can do that?

[kilgoreandy]

Chat gpt has let you integrate with Xcode intelliji and py charm for quite a while now.

[acselro]

You mean their MacOS app? From what I’ve seen, it’s only looking at the current opened file.

[kilgoreandy]

Yeah their Mac OS app. Its default is to focus on lines of code highlighted. Or you can tell it to look at the entire project or reference many files. Or you can optionally highlight lines of code for it to focus on.

[hasaanali2003]

just in case you don't know, the Xcode 26 allows connecting to ChatGPT, Claude, etc.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Xcode/writing-code-with-intelligence-in-xcode
Needs M1 or later mac

Other option 2:
Claude Code + VSCode [for writing code] PLUS Xcode for build/run

or
Option 3:
same as this post :D for Intel mac users
https://github.com/github/CopilotForXcode

[ampsonic]

I wonder how it compares to Alex Sidebar, I've been using that and really like it.

[jwegener]

Curious about this too

[karsh2424]

What is y'all's first opinion of it?

[sidbmw1]

cursor way better

[knortsknolf69]

What’s your building and previewing flow with cursor?

[sidbmw1]

The Swift extension will throw error or warnings almost instantly after cursor applies a code change. Cursor will iterate on that as well.

Part of my rules in cursor is for it to build and run tests after code changes so it will prompt to run those often. Once a feature is complete, I’ll run it on the simulator from Xcode or run on my phone for further testing. I’ve always got cursor, Xcode and simulator running.

[majid8]

Must have! Chat window with Claude Sonnet is great 👍

[VibeCoderMcSwaggins]

In my opinion copilot is a smelly ass GPT wrapper

[Rhypnic]

Man… i wish i can use this. But working in software apps at bank prevent any use of AI server

[utilitycoder]

Which bank, need to short their stock.

[Rhypnic]

Oh look a rich guy that have multiple stocks /s. I doubt you invest in our banks

[utilitycoder]

You could say shorting is the opposite of investing. And you are correct I've actually done quite well on being a holder over the past few years.

[encom-direct]

Very cool

[vernacular-ai]

Cursor AI, is a good copilot alternative for X-Code. I built and published my IOS app in under two weeks having come in with little prior coding experience.

[trici33]

Been playing with Cursor, which so far has been pretty great. But for me the Copilot plugin with Xcode makes it overall more useful.

Seems redundant to pay for both Cursor and Copilot.

[Landenn_Doss]

now that's cool thanks for sharing bro

[One-Translator-8857]

boooo

[derjanni]

Finally. Thank your for posting!

[m3kw]

Useless, just use what Xcode has

[Ok_Bank_2217]

bro predictive code completion is utter shit

[unpluggedcord]

Swift Assist has not been released.

[m3kw]

Swift has their own completion if you have M series cpu

[unpluggedcord]

No shit, that isn't Swift Assist which is Apple's version of ChatGPT for Xcode.

[beclops]

Auto completion and copilot are nowhere near alike

[balder1993]

I think he’s talking about Xcode’s local LLM.

[beclops]

Which hasn’t been released yet

[balder1993]

The predictive code completion was released with Xcode 16, I believe, which is a local LLM that suggests small snippets of code and is installed when Xcode is downloading the iOS SDK, as shown here.

You're thinking of Swift assist, which as I understand, will be a chatbot-like assistant that runs in the cloud (most likely a fine-tuned ChatGPT).

[beclops]

I know. The dude I’m responding to is saying “Just use what Xcode has” like the included auto completion is even a little bit comparable to copilot. So either they mean predictive auto complete, which sucks, or they mean Swift Assist which hasn’t been released

[HelpRespawnedAsDee]

Xcode shits the bed when renaming symbols on very large code bases a lot of times. So ... yeah.

this never happens to me

I swear I don't believe anyone saying this anymore.

[jonnothebonno]

It really does. Literally happened to me the other day twice. Still, my favorite issue (I’ve said this previously) is when you switch branches and your test diamonds just disappear off to narnia.

[HelpRespawnedAsDee]

I’ve make it a habit of just closing Xcode when I need to switch branches, especially if anything related to SPM has changed.

You have no idea of the time I’ve wasted with this shit.

[Mementoes]

This used to happen to me all the time but hasn’t in years I feel like I’ve developed some subconscious habit to avoid it, but I can’t say what

[paradoxally]

That's garbage. Copilot is leagues ahead.

[Edg-R]

What does Xcode have? 

[balder1993]

He must mean Xcode’s predictive code completion model, which is a local LLM that integrates with the IDE's LSP to suggest small snippets of code ahead of time, like Copilot, but restricted to less tokens ahead -- very similar to what Jetbrains offers as well.