On-Device ML iOS: Why Apple's Foundation Models Change Everything

Over 2.8 billion iOS devices now have the computational power to run language models locally — yet most developers are still sending user data to external APIs. That's about to change dramatically with iOS 26's Foundation Models framework. Photo by Sanket Mishra on Pexels Apple's Foundation Models framework represents the biggest shift in on-device AI since CoreML launched. You're no longer limited to classification and simple predictions. Your iOS apps can now generate text, reason through...