diff --git a/src/swift/swift.test.ts b/src/swift/swift.test.ts
index fcdb543a..569246cd 100644
--- a/src/swift/swift.test.ts
+++ b/src/swift/swift.test.ts
@@ -163,6 +163,20 @@ testTokenization('swift', [
 			{ startIndex: 60, type: 'string.quote.swift' } /* '"' */
 		]
 	}],
+	// Multiline string
+	[{
+		line: '"""test"test', // Separate new lines into separate objects within this same array.
+		tokens: [
+			{ startIndex: 0, type: 'string.quote.swift' }, /* '"""' */
+			{ startIndex: 3, type: 'string.swift' } /* test"test */
+		]
+	}, {
+		line: ' keepsgoing"""',
+		tokens: [
+			{ startIndex: 0, type: 'string.swift' }, /* ' keepsgoing' */
+			{ startIndex: 11, type: 'string.quote.swift' } /* '"""' */
+		]
+	}],
 	// Method invocation/property accessor.
 	[{
 		line: '        let view = self.window!.contr as! UIView',
diff --git a/src/swift/swift.ts b/src/swift/swift.ts
index 6960bec3..3b076065 100644
--- a/src/swift/swift.ts
+++ b/src/swift/swift.ts
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ export const language = <ILanguage>{
 			[/"""/, 'string.quote', '@endDblDocString']
 		],
 
+		endDblDocString: [
+			[/[^"]+/, 'string'],
+			[/\\"/, 'string'],
+			[/"""/, 'string.quote', '@popall'],
+			[/"/, 'string']
+		],
+
 		symbol: [
 			[/[{}()\[\]]/, '@brackets'],
 			[/[<>](?!@symbols)/, '@brackets'],