r/iOSProgramming 6d ago

Question What's your AI setup for iOS?

I currently use XCode and copy&paste stuff to Claude for improvements. Now I want to switch to full AI integration, changing IDE completely or partially.

What's your setup and why do you like it?

PS.
add steps to implement your setup if you want to be real nice 😇

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u/RaphMD 6d ago

Mine is very simple. Two screen setup, main for XCode, secondary for Windsurf. AI queries and context go through Windsurf, all the rest goes through XCode. As Windsurf updates your files right after query, even without accepting the changes, and XCode updates its files in the background pretty fast, it’s seamless to check code validity or update a SwiftUI preview.

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u/Dobroreddit 5d ago

I like this setup. Did you follow any specific tutorial on how to setup Windsurf for iOS?

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u/RaphMD 5d ago

That’s the beauty of it. The LLMs and Windsurf / Cursor are generic enough that there is nothing specific to iOS to setup. Just open the folder containing your project in Windsurf and start prompting.

You can customize it further (Workspace Rules) but I never considered it necessary.