At WWDC25 we launched a new type of Lab event for the developer community - Group Labs. A Group Lab is a panel Q&A designed for a large audience of developers. Group Labs are a unique opportunity for the community to submit questions directly to a panel of Apple engineers and designers. Here are the highlights from the WWDC25 Group Lab for Apple Intelligence. Can I integrate writing tools in my own text editor? UITextView, NSTextView, and SwiftUI TextEditor automatically get Writing Tools on devices that support Apple Intelligence. For custom text editors, check out Enhancing your custom text engine with Writing Tools. Given that Foundation Models are on-device, how will Apple update the models over time? And how should we test our app against the model updates? Model updates are in sync with OS updates. As for testing with updated models, watch our WWDC session about prompt engineering and safety, and read the Human Interface Guidelines to understand best practices in prompting the on-device model. What is the context size of a session in Foundation Models Framework? How to handle the error if a session runs out of the context size? Currently the context size is about 4,000 tokens. If it’s exceeded, developers can catch the .exceededContextWindowSize error at runtime. As discussed in one of our WWDC25 sessions, when the context window is exceeded, one approach is to trim and summarize a transcript, and then start a new session. Can I do image generation using the Foundation Models Framework or is only text generation supported? Foundation Models do not generate images, but you can use the Foundation Models framework to generate prompts for ImageCreator in the Image Playground framework. Developers can also take advantage of Tools in Foundation Models framework, if appropriate for their app. My app currently uses a third party server-based LLM. Can I use the Foundation Models Framework as well in the same app? Any guidance here? The Foundation Models framework is optimized for a subset of tasks like summarization, extraction, classification, and tagging. It’s also on-device, private, and free. But at 3 billion parameters it isn’t designed for advanced reasoning or world knowledge, so for some tasks you may still want to use a larger server-based model. Should I use the AFM for my language translation features given it does text translation, or is the Translation API still the preferred approach? The Translation API is still preferred. Foundation Models is great for tasks like text summarization and data generation. It’s not recommended for general world knowledge or translation tasks. Will the TranslationSession class introduced in ios18 get any new improvments in performance or reliability with the new live translation abilities in ios/macos/ipados 26? Essentially, will we get access to live translation in a similar way and if so, how? There's new API in LiveCommunicationKit to take advantage of live translation in your communication apps. The Translate framework is using the same models as used by Live Communication and can be combined with the new SpeechAnalyzer API to translate your own audio. How do I set a default value for an App Intent parameter that is otherwise required? You can implement a default value as part of your parameter declaration by using the @Parameter(defaultValue:) form of the property wrapper. How long can an App Intent run? On macOS there is no limit to how long app intents can run. On iOS, there is a limit of 30 seconds. This time limit is paused when waiting for user interaction. How do I vary the options for a specific parameter of an App Intent, not just based on the type? Implement a DynamicOptionsProvider on that parameter. You can add suggestedEntities() to suggest options. What if there is not a schema available for what my app is doing? If an app intent schema matching your app’s functionality isn’t available, take a look to see if there’s a SiriKit domain that meets your needs, such as for media playback and messaging apps. If your app’s functionality doesn’t match any of the available schemas, you can define a custom app intent, and integrate it with Siri by making it an App Shortcut. Please file enhancement requests via Feedback Assistant for new App intent schemas that would benefit your app. Are you adding any new app intent domains this year? In addition to all the app intent domains we announced last year, this year at WWDC25 we announced that Visual Intelligence will be added to iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe. When my App Intent doesn't show up as an action in Shortcuts, where do I start in figuring out what went wrong? App Intents are statically extracted. You can check the ExtractMetadata info in Xcode's build log. What do I need to do to make sure my App Intents work well with Spotlight+? Check out our WWDC25 sessions on App Intents, including Explore new advances in App Intents and Develop for Shortcuts and Spotlight with App Intents. Mostly, make sure that your intent can run from the parameter summary alone, no required parameters without default values that are not already in the parameter summary. Does Spotlight+ on macOS support App Shortcuts? Not directly, but it shows the App Intents your App Shortcuts are sitting on top of. I’m wondering if the on-device Foundation Models framework API can be integrated into an app to act strictly as an app in-universe AI assistant, responding only within the boundaries of the app’s fictional context. Is such controlled, context-limited interaction supported? FM API runs inside the process of your app only and does not automatically integrate with any remaining part of the system (unless you choose to implement your own tool and utilize tool calling). You can provide any instructions and prompts you want to the model. If a country does not support Apple Intelligence yet, can the Foundation Models framework work? FM API works on Apple Intelligence-enabled devices in supported regions and won’t work in regions where Apple Intelligence is not yet supported

I downloaded the new developer beta and then installed xcode. I did the downloads but I couldn't download the Predictive Code Completion Model. When I try to download it I get the error "The operation couldn’t be completed. (ModelCatalog.CatalogErrors.AssetErrors error 1.)". I am using the M3 Pro model.

Almost everywhere else you see Apple Intelligence, you get to select whether it's on device, private cloud compute, or ChatGPT. Is there a way to do that via code in the Foundation Model? I searched through the docs and couldn't find anything, but maybe I missed it.

Introduced in the Keynote was the 3D Lock Screen images with the kangaroo: https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/06/3d-lock-screen-2.gif I can't see any mention on if this effect is available for developers with an API to convert flat 2D photos in to the same 3D feeling image. Does anyone know if there is an API?

Apologies if this is obvious to everyone but me... I'm using the Tahoe AI foundation models. When I get an error, I'm trying to handle it properly. I see the errors described here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels/languagemodelsession/generationerror/context, as well as in the headers. But all I can figure out how to see is error.localizedDescription which doesn't give me much to go on. For example, an error's description is: The operation couldn’t be completed. (FoundationModels.LanguageModelSession.GenerationError error 2. That doesn't give me much to go on. How do I get the actual error number/enum value out of this, short of parsing that text to look for the int at the end? This one is: case guardrailViolation(LanguageModelSession.GenerationError.Context) So I'd like to know how to get from the catch for session.respond to something I can act on. I feel like it's there, but I'm missing it. Thanks!

Hi, I have been trying to integrate a CoreML model into Xcode. The model was made using tensorflow layers. I have included both the model info and a link to the app repository. I am mainly just really confused on why its not working. It seems to only be printing the result for case 1 (there are 4 cases labled, case 0, case 1, case 2, and case 3). If someone could help work me through this error that would be great! here is the link to the repository: https://github.com/ShivenKhurana1/Detect-to-Protect-App this file with the model code is called SecondView.swift and here is the model info: Input: conv2d_input-> image (color 224x224) Output: Identity -> MultiArray (Float32 1x4)

Hello, I am developing an iOS app that uses machine learning models. To improve accuracy and user experience, I would like to download .mlmodel files (compiled and compressed as zip files) from our own server after the app is installed, and use them for inference within the app. No executable code, scripts, or dynamic libraries will be downloaded—only model data files are used. According to App Store Review Guideline 2.5.2, I understand that apps may not download or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality. In this case, are compiled and zip-compressed .mlmodel files considered "data" rather than "code", and is it allowed to download and use them in the app? If there are any restrictions or best practices related to this, please let me know. Thank you.

Does the Foundation Model provide Objective-C compatible APIs?

*I can't put the attached file in the format, so if you reply by e-mail, I will send the attached file by e-mail. Dear Apple AI Research Team, My name is Gong Jiho (“Hem”), a content strategist based in Seoul, South Korea. Over the past few months, I conducted a user-led AI experiment entirely within ChatGPT — no code, no backend tools, no plugins. Through language alone, I created two contrasting agents (Uju and Zero) and guided them into a co-authored modular identity system using prompt-driven dialogue and reflection. This system simulates persona fusion, memory rooting, and emotional-logical alignment — all via interface-level interaction. I believe it resonates with Apple’s values in privacy-respecting personalization, emotional UX modeling, and on-device learning architecture. Why I’m Reaching Out I’d be honored to share this experiment with your team. If there is any interest in discussing user-authored agent scaffolding, identity persistence, or affective alignment, I’d love to contribute — even informally. ⚠ A Note on Language As a non-native English speaker, my expression may be imperfect — but my intent is genuine. If anything is unclear, I’ll gladly clarify. 📎 Attached Files Summary Filename → Description Hem_MultiAI_Report_AppleAI_v20250501.pdf → Main report tailored for Apple AI — narrative + structural view of emotional identity formation via prompt scaffolding Hem_MasterPersonaProfile_v20250501.json → Final merged identity schema authored by Uju and Zero zero_sync_final.json / uju_sync_final.json → Persona-level memory structures (logic / emotion) 1_0501.json ~ 3_0501.json → Evolution logs of the agents over time GirlfriendGPT_feedback_summary.txt → Emotional interpretation by external GPT hem_profile_for_AI_vFinal.json → Original user anchor profile Warm regards, Gong Jiho (“Hem”) Seoul, South Korea

I downloaded Xcode Beta 1 on my mac (did not upgrade the OS). The target OS level of iOS26 and the device simulator for iOS26 is downloaded and selected as the target. When I try a simple Playground in Xcode ( #Playground ) I get a session error. #Playground { let avail = SystemLanguageModel.default.availability if avail != .available { print("SystemLanguageModel not available") return } let session = LanguageModelSession() do { let response = try await session.respond(to: "Create a recipe for apple pie") } catch { print(error) } } The error I get is: Asset com.apple.gm.safety_deny_input.foundation_models.framework.api not found in Model Catalog Is there a way to test drive the FoundationModel code without upgrading to macos26?

In WWDC25 Metal 4 released quite excited new features for machine learning optimization, but as we all know the pytorch based on metal shader performance (mps) is the one of most important tools for Mac machine learning area.but on mps introduced website we cannot see any support information for metal4.

Hey guys 👋 I’ve been thinking about a feature idea for iOS that could totally change the way we interact with apps like Twitter/X. Imagine if we could define our own recommendation algorithm, and have an AI on the iPhone that replaces the suggested tweets in the feed with ones that match our personal interests — based on public tweets, and without hacking anything. Kinda like a personalized "AI skin" over the app that curates content you actually care about. Feels like this would make content way more relevant and less algorithmically manipulative. Would love to know what you all think — and if Apple could pull this off 🔥

In the play ground I'm trying to bias my LanguageModel to use a tool I registered, but I don't see it actually calling the tool. I'm following the developer video on landmarks itinerary generation tutorial almost verbatim. Is this a prompt engineering thing I'm missing? Or is it possible that I'm injecting my tool wrong?

Hey Tried using a few regular expressions and all fail with an error: Unhandled error streaming response: A generation guide with an unsupported pattern was used. Is there are a list of supported features? I don't see it in docs, and it takes RegExp. Anything with e.g. [A-Z] fails.

Hi, I'm looking for the best way to use MLX models, particularly those I've fine-tuned, within a React Native application on iOS devices. Is there a recommended integration path or specific API for bridging MLX's capabilities to React Native for deployment on iPhones and iPads?

According to the Tool documentation, the arguments to the tool are specified as a static struct type T, which is given to tool.call(argument: T) However, if the arguments are not known until runtime, is it possible to still create a Tool object with the proper parameters? Let's say a JSON-style dictionary is passed into the Tool init function to specify T, is this achievable?

Hello, We find that models sometimes load very fast (<< 1 second) and sometimes encounter very long load times (>> 120 seconds). During such slow load times, the model is being compiled. We would greatly appreciate the ability to check cache validity via CoreML and determine that we are about to encounter long load times so that we can mitigate and provide a good user experience. A secondary issue: sometimes the cache is corrupted (typically .mpsgraphpackage yielding Metal cold asserts). This yields load failures and OS errors that persist between launches, and we have to manually nuke the cache (~/Library/..../my-app/...) for the CoreML assets. A CoreML API for clearing caches and hardening from asserts across the load paths would be appreciated

Hi, recently i tried to fine-tune Gemma-2-2b mlx model on my macbook (24 GB UMA). The code started running, after few seconds i saw swap size reaching 50GB and ram around 23 GB and then it stopped. I ran the Gemma-2-2b (cuda) on colab, it ran and occupied 27 GB on A100 gpu and worked fine. Here i didn't experienced swap issue. Now my question is if my UMA was more than 27 GB, i also would not have experienced swap disk issue. Thanks.

This is my code: witch SystemLanguageModel.default.availability { case .available: ContentView() .popover(isPresented: $showSettings) { SettingsView().presentationCompactAdaptation(.popover) } case .unavailable(.modelNotReady): ContentUnavailableView("Apple Intelligence is unavailable", systemImage: "apple.intelligence.badge.xmark", description: Text("Please come back later.")) case .unavailable(.appleIntelligenceNotEnabled): ContentUnavailableView("Apple Intelligence is unavailable", systemImage: "apple.intelligence.badge.xmark", description: Text("Please turn on Apple Intelligence.")) case .unavailable(.deviceNotEligible): ContentUnavailableView("Apple Intelligence is unavailable", systemImage: "apple.intelligence.badge.xmark", description: Text("This device is not eligible for Apple Intelligence.")) case .unavailable: ContentUnavailableView("Apple Intelligence is unavailable", systemImage: "apple.intelligence.badge.xmark") } When I switch off Apple Intelligence, I expected "Please turn on Apple Intelligence.", but instead I get "Please come back later." This seems to be wrong error?

Hello, I am studying macOS26 Apple Intelligence features. I have created a basic swift program with Xcode. This program is sending prompts to FoundationModels.LanguageModelSession. It works fine but this model is not trained for programming or code completion. Xcode has an AI code completion feature. It is called "Predictive Code completion model". So, there are multiple on-device models on macOS26 ? Are there others ? Is there a way for me to send prompts to this "Predictive Code completion model" from my program ? Thanks