iOS 19 Will Let Developers Use Apple's AI Models in Their Apps

Tuesday May 20, 2025 9:18 am PDT by Juli Clover

Apple will make its artificial intelligence models available to developers to use in their apps, reports Bloomberg. The company plans to introduce a new software development kit (SDK) in iOS 19 that will make it easier for app creators to add AI features.

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The SDK will feature the same large language models that Apple is using for Apple Intelligence features like notification summaries, Writing Tools, Genmoji, and Image Playground, but Apple will first focus on the smaller models that are able to run on-device.

Apple has faced criticism for its failure to deliver ‌Apple Intelligence‌ Siri features in a timely manner. Apple announced a new personalized ‌Siri‌ experience at WWDC 2024 and intended to release the new capabilities as part of iOS 18, but the functionality was not ready in time and is now being held until iOS 19.

Some of Apple's other features, like Writing Tools and ‌Image Playground‌, haven't seen widespread adoption. According to Bloomberg, Apple is hoping that opening up its AI models to developers will provide use cases that better attract consumers. Currently, developers can integrate notification summaries, Writing Tools, ‌Genmoji‌, and ‌Image Playground‌ into their apps, but they aren't able to create new AI features using Apple's framework. Instead, developers who want to include AI integrate third-party models, which Apple is aiming to change.

Apple's AI announcements will come at the Worldwide Developers Conference, which is set to take place on Monday, June 9.

Apple has also been working on in-house large language models (LLMs), and eventually the company plans to introduce a version of ‌Siri‌ that relies on LLMs and is more like ChatGPT, Claude, and other chatbots. The LLM version of ‌Siri‌ isn't expected until 2026 at the earliest, and it will likely be part of iOS 20.

Tags: Bloomberg, Mark Gurman

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Top Rated Comments

CalMin

15 weeks ago

Dear Tim Cook and Apple Team

Remember this time - don't let the marketing team run away with these things until they are ready to ship. Better yet, don't announce them until you have a reasonable idea of when they can ship. No-one needs to know ahead of time.

iPhone sales are doing just fine. And speculative shareholders can 'pound sand' - long-term shareholders have done just fine and will continue to do just fine as long as you focus on shipping quality products and software - when they are ready, and not a moment sooner.

Sincerely,

A Loyal Long-Term Apple Customer.

Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Populus

15 weeks ago

When will it be available.
Really available and not only promised?

I don't believe anything.

You don’t have to. They haven’t actually promised it yet. This is just a rumour.

Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)

sw1tcher

15 weeks ago

It’s also important to know that the criticism of notifications is just a bunch of noise from the BBC to distract from the fact that AI *correctly* summarized the clickbait headlines that the BBC sent out.

Apple Intelligence spitting out false notifications summaries weren't just for BBC news articles. There were plenty of others

https://futurism.com/apple-ai-butchering-news-summaries

Fowler appended a screenshot of an alert, which claimed that Pete Hegseth, who's been facing a confrontational confirmation hearing for the role of defense secretary this week, had been fired by his former employer, Fox News — which is false and not what the WaPo's syndication of an Associated Press story actually said. The AI alert also claimed that Florida senator Marco Rubio had been sworn in as secretary of state, which is also false as of the time of writing.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/news/366617766/Implications-of-Apple-AI-generating-false-news-summaries

Other publishers like ProPublica also alerted Apple that its Intelligence system was generating false summaries.

https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-ai-summarized-news-196432290e9e

Journalists were quick to point out how this could all go awry. “I look forward to everyone sharing the bonkers/pointless summaries it now puts on your lock screen”, wrote the Washington Post’s tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler on Bluesky that day. In his review for that newspaper he explained he’d been testing Apple Intelligence on his iPhone for months and noticed it “doesn’t act intelligent at all” because the notification summary feature “goes bananas at least once or twice per day”.

“One example: Last Thursday [October 23], Apple AI summarized a news headline as, ‘Steve Anderson urges Harris to endorse Harris.’ (The actual original headline was, ‘Fellow General Steve Anderson Tells John Kelly Why He Must Endorse Harris Now.’)”. Fowler continued: “On Tuesday [29 October], Apple Intelligence incorrectly summarized a Washington Post news alert to say: ‘Harris rally features Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.’ (That didn’t happen. And Bezos owns The Post.)” He added on X that: “It’s hard to believe that Apple released a product that’s doing this over and over again”.

Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

sw1tcher

15 weeks ago

Apple will make its artificial intelligence models available to developers to use in their apps, reports Bloomberg. The company plans to introduce a new software development kit (SDK) in iOS 19 that will make it easier for app creators to add AI features.

The SDK will feature the same large language models that Apple is using for Apple Intelligence features like notification summaries, Writing Tools, Genmoji, and Image Playground, but Apple will first focus on the smaller models that are able to run on-device.

I'm not sure this is a good idea. App developers beware.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/19/apple-faces-criticism-new-notification-summaries/
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/01/06/bbc-calls-out-apple-ai-creating-fake-news-titles/

Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Populus

15 weeks ago

Makes sense. That way developers will be able to add this AI features as an incentive to purchase the “pro”, or “plus” subscription to their app… We all know how and why Apple pushes the subscription model.

Okay, I just read this is just for integrating Apple Intelligence into the apps. I hope it doesn’t come with a subscription if we are having it for free all over the OS.

Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)