๐ ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ถ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ ๐ด๐ผ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ ๐ช๐ช๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ , and there's a lot here that changes the day-to-day for app developers.
The ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ถ ๐ฟ๐๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ and can hold a conversation, read what's on screen, and take actions across apps. But for it to do anything with your app, you have to tell it what your app can do. And that's where App Intents comes in. Apple retired ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ this year, so intents are now the way in.
Updates I'm most keen to play with:
โข ๐๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น๐: Apple's ๐ผ๐ป-๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ model can now take images, not just text. Free, offline, Swift-native, so you add smart features without paying for cloud calls.
โข ๐๐ฝ๐ฝ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ also gained per-intent cloud controls: you can declare whether a given interaction may leave the device, useful for finance and health apps that need certain actions to stay strictly local.
โข Xcode 27 got on-device AI code completion, and iOS 27 supports phones back to the iPhone 11.
Spending this week at Apple's WWDC group labs - Apple Intelligence, Machine Learning & AI, and Privacy & Security, digging into how much of this is shippable today vs. next year.
๐ Apple Developer - WWDC 2026: https://lnkd.in/eUnzREwK


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