Apple Intelligence is the personal intelligence system powered by next-generation Apple Foundation Models, bringing personal context understanding, app actions, and on-screen awareness across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. You can integrate your app's content and actions into Siri AI and across the system via App Intents, so users can discover and use your app's capabilities more naturally. You can also build intelligent features directly into your apps with the Foundation Models framework, which supports multimodal prompts and any language model — including Apple Foundation Models or any provider that conforms to the Language Model protocol.
Develop for macOS
Build great apps and games for macOS that take full advantage of the powerful capabilities of Mac. Create a stunning look for your apps with Liquid Glass. Provide users with seamless access to your app content across the system with App Intents, widgets, and Live Activities. You can unlock powerful and immersive experiences through new technologies like Metal 4 and the Video Effects API. And maximize the performance of apps and games by building them natively for Apple silicon.
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The Foundation Models framework
The Foundation Models framework is a native Swift API that gives you direct access to Apple Foundation Models — on device and in Private Cloud Compute* — as well as any model provider with a Swift package conforming to the Language Model protocol.
From there, multimodal prompts and on-device Vision framework tools let your app reason about images alongside text, while Dynamic Profiles let you swap models, tools, and instructions within a continuous session so your app's intelligence can adapt in real time. Then use the Evaluations framework to ensure your AI features work reliably across dynamic conditions.
App Intents
The App Intents framework connects your app to Apple Intelligence and Siri AI through schemas — recognizable structures built on years of language model training — that make your app's content discoverable and its capabilities available through natural language with less code.
Entity schemas contribute your content to the Spotlight semantic index for personal context understanding, while intent schemas let people take action on that content naturally, with no specific phrases to define and no code changes needed as Siri's language understanding evolves. The View Annotations API extends this further with on-screen awareness, letting you map views to entities so people can reference and act on what's in front of them conversationally.
Platform design and Liquid Glass
Apple platforms have a unified language that elevates the content people care about most. It maintains the distinct qualities that make each platform unique and makes apps feel expressive, delightful, and focused
New platform design refinements improve consistency, readability, and accessibility, and introduce ways for apps to adapt across devices and screen sizes. And new and updated design tools offer greater control of creative work, from icons and SF Symbols to Wallet passes and 3D content.
Metal-powered games
Metal gives you direct, low-overhead control of the GPU so you can build visually rich games and run them at maximum efficiency on Apple silicon. Run ML inference directly in your shaders to compute lighting, materials, and geometry in real time. Use MetalFX to boost performance by upscaling lower-resolution content and save GPU time. Game Porting Toolkit 4 dramatically cuts the time and cost of bringing your game to Apple platforms with new agent skills and command-line Metal tools that let AI coding agents drive every step of the porting process.
Video Effects API
The Video Effects API exposes many machine-learning-based video processing algorithms, like Motion Blur and Frame Rate Conversion, and Image and Video Super Resolution, to give people who use your video editing app additional ways to tell their unique story. Motion Blur can digitally recreate a motion blur effect without the difficult physical setup. Frame Rate Conversion (FRC) allows video clip retiming, slow motion, and gap filling in jittery clips due to dropped frames. Image Super-Resolution (ISR) and Video Super-Resolution (VSR) support upscaling by up to 4x, delivering sharper details and higher-quality outputs from lower-resolution sources.
Live Activities
Live Activities from your iPhone nearby appear on your Mac in the menu bar, helping you stay on top of things that are happening in real time—such as a sports game, workout, ride share, or food delivery order.
For apps with frequent content and status updates that go beyond the existing push notification system, Live Activities can be a more flexible way to keep people updated about live events, activities, or tasks over a couple of hours, because in addition to frequently updating data, they offer a way for people to interact with the information.
Widgets
A widget elevates and displays a small amount of timely, relevant information from your app or game so people can see it at a glance in additional contexts — without requiring them to open your app.
You can add widgets to your Mac desktop or keep them tucked away in Notification Center — and even access widgets from iPhone right on Mac.
