{"id":177868,"date":"2025-10-03T19:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/177868\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:49:11","slug":"how-developers-are-using-apples-local-ai-models-with-ios-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/177868\/","title":{"rendered":"How developers are using Apple’s local AI models with iOS 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, Apple introduced its Foundation Models framework<\/a> during WWDC 2025, which allows developers to use the company\u2019s local AI models to power features in their applications.<\/p>\n

The company touted that with this framework, developers gain access to AI models without worrying about any inference cost. Plus, these local models have capabilities such as guided generation and tool calling built in.<\/p>\n

As iOS 26 is rolling out to all users, developers have been updating their apps to include features powered by Apple\u2019s local AI models. Apple\u2019s models are small compared with leading models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or Meta. That is why local-only features largely improve quality of life with these apps rather than introducing major changes to the app\u2019s workflow.<\/p>\n

Below are some of the first apps to tap into Apple\u2019s AI framework.<\/p>\n

Lil Artist<\/p>\n

The Lil Artist<\/a> app offers various interactive experiences to help kids learn different skills like creativity, math, and music. Developer Arima Jain and Aman Jain shipped an AI story creator with the iOS 26 update. This allows users to select a character and a theme, with the app generating a story using AI. The developer said that the text generation in the story is powered by the local model.<\/p>\n

\"\"Image Credits:Lil Artist<\/p>\n

Daylish<\/p>\n

The developer of the Daylish<\/a> app is working on a prototype for automatically suggesting emojis for timeline events based on the title for the daily planner app.<\/p>\n

MoneyCoach<\/p>\n

Finance tracking app MoneyCoach<\/a> has two neat features powered by local models. First, the app shows insights about your spending, such as whether you spent more than average on groceries for that particular week. The other feature automatically suggests categories and subcategories for a spending item for quick entries.<\/p>\n

\"AImage Credits:MoneyCoach<\/p>\n

LookUp<\/p>\n

The word learning app LookUp<\/a> has added two new modes using Apple\u2019s AI models. There is a new learning mode, which leverages a local model to create examples corresponding to a word. Plus, the example asks users to explain the usage of the word in a sentence.<\/p>\n

\"AImage Credits:LookUp<\/p>\n

The developer is also using on-device models to generate a map view of a word\u2019s origin. <\/p>\n

\"AImage Credits:Lookup<\/p>\n

Tasks<\/p>\n

Just like a few other apps, the Tasks<\/a> app implemented a feature to suggest tags for an entry using local models automatically. It\u2019s also using these models to detect a recurring task and schedule it accordingly. And the app lets users speak a few things and use the local model to break them down into various tasks without using the internet.<\/p>\n

\"ThisImage Credits:Tasks<\/p>\n

Day One<\/p>\n

Automattic-owned journaling app Day One<\/a> is using Apple\u2019s models to get highlights and suggest titles for your entry. The team has also implemented a feature to generate prompts that nudge you to dive deeper and write more based on what you have already written.<\/p>\n

\"AImage Credits:Day One<\/p>\n

Crouton<\/p>\n

Recipe app Crouton<\/a> is using Apple Intelligence to suggest tags for a recipe and assign names to timers. It also uses AI to break down a block of text into easy-to-follow steps for cooking.<\/p>\n

Signeasy<\/p>\n

Digital signing app Signeasy<\/a> is using Apple\u2019s local models to extract key insights from a contract and give users a summary of the document they are signing.<\/p>\n

Dark Noise<\/p>\n

Background sound app Dark Noise<\/a> has used Apple\u2019s local models to let users describe a soundscape in a few words and generate one based on that. You can adjust the levels of different elements of the soundscape once it is created.<\/p>\n

Lights Out<\/p>\n

Lights Out<\/a> is the new app to track the F1 season and grand prix from Shihab Mehboob, developer of Twitter client Avery and Mastodon client Mammoth. The app uses on-device AI models to summarize commentary during a race.<\/p>\n

Capture<\/p>\n

Note-taking app Capture<\/a> is using local AI to show category suggestions to users as they type in their notes or tasks.<\/p>\n

\"\"Image Credits:Capture<\/p>\n

Lumy<\/p>\n

Sun and weather-tracking app Lumy<\/a> now shows neat weather-related suggestions on the app using AI.<\/p>\n

\"\"Image Credits:Lumy<\/p>\n

CardPointers<\/p>\n

CardPointers<\/a> is an app that helps you track your credit card expenses and gives suggestions on the best way to earn points from the cards you have. The app\u2019s new version is using AI to let users ask questions about their cards and offers.<\/p>\n

\"\"Image Credits:CardPointers<\/p>\n

Guitar Wiz<\/p>\n

Guitar Wiz<\/a> is a guitar learning app using the Apple Foundation Model framework in a few ways. Users will see an explanation of a chord while learning it. The app is showing advanced players\u2019 insights based on time intervals. Plus, the AI model is helping the developer support over 15 languages.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

SmartGym app<\/a> uses local AI to convert the description of a workout to a step-wise set with rep counts, intervals, and equipment. It also gives users workout summaries with monthly progress, routine breakdowns, and individual exercise performance.<\/p>\n

Stoic<\/p>\n

Journaling app Stoic<\/a> is using Apple\u2019s models to give personalized prompts to users based on their mood logging. The models can also help users summarize posts, search past entries, and organize them.<\/p>\n

\"\"Image Credits:Stoic<\/p>\n

SwingVision<\/p>\n

This app helps players of racquet sports such as tennis and pickleball improve their form based on the video recordings. The app makers are now using Foundational models to give actionable and specific feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zoho<\/p>\n

India-based productivity suite company Zoho is using local models to power summarization, translation, and transcription across its apps like Notebook for documents and Tables for spreadsheets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

TrainFitness<\/p>\n

The workout app<\/a> is using on-device models to suggest an alternative for an exercise when you don\u2019t have particular equipment available to you.<\/p>\n

Stuff<\/p>\n

The to-do app has a listen mode<\/a> that uses Apple\u2019s AI models to listen to the user and convert the voice to individual tasks.<\/p>\n

We will continue updating this list as we discover more apps using Apple\u2019s local models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this year, Apple introduced its Foundation Models framework during WWDC 2025, which allows developers to use the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,304,43366,733,4308,20413,7083,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-177868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-apple-intelligence","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-evergreens","14":"tag-ios-26","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}