Hi, I am a new IOS developer, trying to learn to integrate the Apple Foundation Model.
my set up is:
Mac M1 Pro
MacOS 26 Beta
Version 26.0 beta 3
Apple Intelligence & Siri --> On
here is the code,
func generate() {
Task {
isGenerating = true
output = "⏳ Thinking..."
do {
let session = LanguageModelSession( instructions: """
Extract time from a message. Example
Q: Golfing at 6PM
A: 6PM
""")
let response = try await session.respond(to: "Go to gym at 7PM")
output = response.content
} catch {
output = "❌ Error:, \(error)"
print(output)
}
isGenerating = false
}
and I get these errors
guardrailViolation(FoundationModels.LanguageModelSession.GenerationError.Context(debugDescription: "Prompt may contain sensitive or unsafe content", underlyingErrors: [Asset com.apple.gm.safety_embedding_deny.all not found in Model Catalog]))
Can you help me get through this?
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With the release of the newest version of tahoe and MLX supporting RDMA. Is there a documentation link to how to utilizes the libdrma dylib as well as what functions are available? I am currently assuming it mostly follows the standard linux infiniband library but I would like the apple specific details.
Topic:
Machine Learning & AI
SubTopic:
General
We are developing Apple AI for foreign markets and adapting it for iPhone models 17 and above.
When the system language and Siri language are not the same—for example, if the system is in English and Siri is in Chinese—it can cause a situation where Apple AI cannot be used. So, may I ask if there are any other reasons that could cause Apple AI to be unavailable within the app, even if it has been enabled?
When the system language and Siri language are not the same, Apple AI may not be usable.
For example, if the system is in English and Siri is in Chinese, it may cause Apple AI to not work.
May I ask if there are other reasons why the app still cannot be used internally even after enabling Apple AI?
Hi team,
I’m exploring the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which is used to connect LLMs/AI agents to external tools in a structured way. It's becoming a common standard for automation and agent workflows.
Before I go deeper, I want to confirm:
Does Apple currently provide any official MCP server, API surface, or SDK on iOS/macOS?
From what I see, only third-party MCP servers exist for iOS simulators/devices, and Apple’s own frameworks (Foundation Models, Apple Intelligence) don’t expose MCP endpoints.
Is there any chance Apple might introduce MCP support—or publish recommended patterns for safely integrating MCP inside apps or developer tools?
I would like to see if I can share my app's data to the MCP server to enable other third-party apps/services to integrate easily
Topic:
Machine Learning & AI
SubTopic:
General
I'm using Vision framework (DetectFaceLandmarksRequest) with the same code and the same test image to detect face landmarks. On iOS 18 everything works as expected: detected face landmarks align with the face correctly.
But when I run the same code on devices with iOS 26, the landmark coordinates are outside the [0,1] range, which indicates they are out of face bounds.
Fun fact: the old VNDetectFaceLandmarksRequest API works very well without encountering this issue
How I get face landmarks:
private let faceRectangleRequest = DetectFaceRectanglesRequest(.revision3)
private var faceLandmarksRequest = DetectFaceLandmarksRequest(.revision3)
func detectFaces(in ciImage: CIImage) async throws -> FaceTrackingResult {
let faces = try await faceRectangleRequest.perform(on: ciImage)
faceLandmarksRequest.inputFaceObservations = faces
let landmarksResults = try await faceLandmarksRequest.perform(on: ciImage)
...
}
How I show face landmarks in SwiftUI View:
private func convert(
point: NormalizedPoint,
faceBoundingBox: NormalizedRect,
imageSize: CGSize
) -> CGPoint {
let point = point.toImageCoordinates(
from: faceBoundingBox,
imageSize: imageSize,
origin: .upperLeft
)
return point
}
At the same time, it works as expected and gives me the correct results:
region is FaceObservation.Landmarks2D.Region
let points: [CGPoint] = region.pointsInImageCoordinates(
imageSize,
origin: .upperLeft
)
After that, I found that the landmarks are normalized relative to the unalignedBoundingBox. However, I can’t access it in code. Still, using these values for the bounding box works correctly.
Things I've already tried:
Same image input
Tested multiple devices on iOS 26.2 -> always wrong.
Tested multiple devices on iOS 18.7.1 -> always correct.
Environment:
macOS 26.2
Xcode 26.2 (17C52)
Real devices, not simulator
Face Landmarks iOS 18
Face Landmarks iOS 26
I am using macOS Tahoe on Xcode 26.
Topic:
Machine Learning & AI
SubTopic:
Foundation Models
Hi,
I'm testing DockKit with a very simple setup:
I use VNDetectFaceRectanglesRequest to detect a face and then call dockAccessory.track(...) using the detected bounding box.
The stand is correctly docked (state == .docked) and dockAccessory is valid.
I'm calling .track(...) with a single observation and valid CameraInformation (including size, device, orientation, etc.). No errors are thrown.
To monitor this, I added a logging utility – track(...) is being called 10–30 times per second, as recommended in the documentation.
However: the stand does not move at all.
There is no visible reaction to the tracking calls.
Is there anything I'm missing or doing wrong?
Is VNDetectFaceRectanglesRequest supported for DockKit tracking, or are there hidden requirements?
Would really appreciate any help or pointers – thanks!
That's my complete code:
extension VideoFeedViewController: AVCaptureVideoDataOutputSampleBufferDelegate {
func captureOutput(_ output: AVCaptureOutput, didOutput sampleBuffer: CMSampleBuffer, from connection: AVCaptureConnection) {
guard let frame = CMSampleBufferGetImageBuffer(sampleBuffer) else {
return
}
detectFace(image: frame)
func detectFace(image: CVPixelBuffer) {
let faceDetectionRequest = VNDetectFaceRectanglesRequest() { vnRequest, error in
guard let results = vnRequest.results as? [VNFaceObservation] else {
return
}
guard let observation = results.first else {
return
}
let boundingBoxHeight = observation.boundingBox.size.height * 100
#if canImport(DockKit)
if let dockAccessory = self.dockAccessory {
Task {
try? await trackRider(
observation.boundingBox,
dockAccessory,
frame,
sampleBuffer
)
}
}
#endif
}
let imageResultHandler = VNImageRequestHandler(cvPixelBuffer: image, orientation: .up)
try? imageResultHandler.perform([faceDetectionRequest])
func combineBoundingBoxes(_ box1: CGRect, _ box2: CGRect) -> CGRect {
let minX = min(box1.minX, box2.minX)
let minY = min(box1.minY, box2.minY)
let maxX = max(box1.maxX, box2.maxX)
let maxY = max(box1.maxY, box2.maxY)
let combinedWidth = maxX - minX
let combinedHeight = maxY - minY
return CGRect(x: minX, y: minY, width: combinedWidth, height: combinedHeight)
}
#if canImport(DockKit)
func trackObservation(_ boundingBox: CGRect, _ dockAccessory: DockAccessory, _ pixelBuffer: CVPixelBuffer, _ cmSampelBuffer: CMSampleBuffer) throws {
// Zähle den Aufruf
TrackMonitor.shared.trackCalled()
let invertedBoundingBox = CGRect(
x: boundingBox.origin.x,
y: 1.0 - boundingBox.origin.y - boundingBox.height,
width: boundingBox.width,
height: boundingBox.height
)
guard let device = captureDevice else {
fatalError("Kamera nicht verfügbar")
}
let size = CGSize(width: Double(CVPixelBufferGetWidth(pixelBuffer)),
height: Double(CVPixelBufferGetHeight(pixelBuffer)))
var cameraIntrinsics: matrix_float3x3? = nil
if let cameraIntrinsicsUnwrapped = CMGetAttachment(
sampleBuffer,
key: kCMSampleBufferAttachmentKey_CameraIntrinsicMatrix,
attachmentModeOut: nil
) as? Data {
cameraIntrinsics = cameraIntrinsicsUnwrapped.withUnsafeBytes { $0.load(as: matrix_float3x3.self) }
}
Task {
let orientation = getCameraOrientation()
let cameraInfo = DockAccessory.CameraInformation(
captureDevice: device.deviceType,
cameraPosition: device.position,
orientation: orientation,
cameraIntrinsics: cameraIntrinsics,
referenceDimensions: size
)
let observation = DockAccessory.Observation(
identifier: 0,
type: .object,
rect: invertedBoundingBox
)
let observations = [observation]
guard let image = CMSampleBufferGetImageBuffer(sampleBuffer) else {
print("no image")
return
}
do {
try await dockAccessory.track(observations, cameraInformation: cameraInfo)
} catch {
print(error)
}
}
}
#endif
func clearDrawings() {
boundingBoxLayer?.removeFromSuperlayer()
boundingBoxSizeLayer?.removeFromSuperlayer()
}
}
}
}
@MainActor
private func getCameraOrientation() -> DockAccessory.CameraOrientation {
switch UIDevice.current.orientation {
case .portrait:
return .portrait
case .portraitUpsideDown:
return .portraitUpsideDown
case .landscapeRight:
return .landscapeRight
case .landscapeLeft:
return .landscapeLeft
case .faceDown:
return .faceDown
case .faceUp:
return .faceUp
default:
return .corrected
}
}
Apple's Image Playground primarily performs image generation on-device, but can use secure Private Cloud Compute for more complex requests that require larger models. Private Cloud Compute (PCC)
For more complex tasks that require greater computational power than the device can provide, Image Playground leverages Apple's Private Cloud Compute. This system extends the privacy and security of the device to the cloud:
Secure Environment: PCC runs on Apple silicon servers and uses a secure enclave to protect data, ensuring requests are processed in a verified, secure environment.
No Data Storage: Data is never stored or made accessible to Apple when using PCC; it is used only to fulfill the specific request.
Independent Verification: Independent experts are able to inspect the code running on these servers to verify Apple's privacy promises.
v3 was released 2 years ago but developers are unable to convert models created with Keras v3 to CoreML
Hi everyone, I’m working on an iOS app that uses a Core ML model to run live image recognition. I’ve run into a persistent issue with the mlpackage not being turned into a swift class. This following error is in the code, and in carDetection.mlpackage, it says that model class has not been generated yet. The error in the code is as follows:
What I’ve tried:
Verified Target Membership is checked for carDetectionModel.mlpackage
Confirmed the file is listed under Copy Bundle Resources (and removed from Compile Sources)
Cleaned the build folder (Shift + Cmd + K) and rebuilt
Renamed and re-added the .mlpackage file
Restarted Xcode and re-added the file
Logged bundle contents at runtime, but the .mlpackage still doesn’t appear
The mlpackage is in Copy bundle resources, and is not in the compile sources. I just don't know why a swift class is not being generated for the mlpackage.
Could someone please give me some guidance on what to do to resolve this issue?
Sorry if my error is a bit naive, I'm pretty new to iOS app development
Topic:
Machine Learning & AI
SubTopic:
Core ML
Itself been 4-5 days my Image playground has showing the “Downloading Support for Image Playground “
Topic:
Machine Learning & AI
SubTopic:
Apple Intelligence
Hello,
Are there any plans to compile a python 3.13 version of tensorflow-metal?
Just got my new Mac mini and the automatically installed version of python installed by brew is python 3.13 and while if I was in a hurry, I could manage to get python 3.12 installed and use the corresponding tensorflow-metal version but I'm not in a hurry.
Many thanks,
Alan
I have an app that stores lots of data that is of interest to the user. Analogies would be the Photos apps or the Health app.
I'm trying to use the Foundation Models framework to allow users to surface information they find interesting using natural language, for example, "Tell me about the widgets from yesterday" or "Tell me about the widgets for the last 3 days". Specifically, I'm trying to get a date range passed down to the Tool so that I can pull the relevant widgets from the database in the call function.
What is the right way to set up the Arguments to get at a date range?
Topic:
Machine Learning & AI
SubTopic:
Foundation Models
Hello,
I am interested in using jax-metal to train ML models using Apple Silicon. I understand this is experimental.
After installing jax-metal according to https://developer.apple.com/metal/jax/, my python code fails with the following error
JaxRuntimeError: UNKNOWN: -:0:0: error: unknown attribute code: 22
-:0:0: note: in bytecode version 6 produced by: StableHLO_v1.12.1
My issue is identical to the one reported here https://github.com/jax-ml/jax/issues/26968#issuecomment-2733120325, and is fixed by pinning to jax-metal 0.1.1., jax 0.5.0 and jaxlib 0.5.0.
Thank you!
I am running some experiments with WebGPU using the wgpu crate in rust. I have some Buffers already allocated in the GPU.
Is it possible to use those already existing buffers directly as inputs to a predict call in CoreML? I want to prevent gpu to cpu download time as much as possible.
Or are there any other ways to do something like this. Is this only possible using the latest Tensor object which came out with Metal 4 ?
Also submitted as feedback (ID: FB20612561).
Tensorflow-metal fails on tensorflow versions above 2.18.1, but works fine on tensorflow 2.18.1
In a new python 3.12 virtual environment:
pip install tensorflow
pip install tensor flow-metal
python -c "import tensorflow as tf"
Prints error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/Users//pt/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tensorflow/init.py", line 438, in
_ll.load_library(_plugin_dir)
File "/Users//pt/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/load_library.py", line 151, in load_library
py_tf.TF_LoadLibrary(lib)
tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.NotFoundError: dlopen(/Users//pt/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tensorflow-plugins/libmetal_plugin.dylib, 0x0006): Library not loaded: @rpath/_pywrap_tensorflow_internal.so
Referenced from: <8B62586B-B082-3113-93AB-FD766A9960AE> /Users//pt/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tensorflow-plugins/libmetal_plugin.dylib
Reason: tried: '/Users//pt/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tensorflow-plugins/../_solib_darwin_arm64/_U@local_Uconfig_Utf_S_S_C_Upywrap_Utensorflow_Uinternal___Uexternal_Slocal_Uconfig_Utf/_pywrap_tensorflow_internal.so' (no such file), '/Users//pt/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tensorflow-plugins/../_solib_darwin_arm64/_U@local_Uconfig_Utf_S_S_C_Upywrap_Utensorflow_Uinternal___Uexternal_Slocal_Uconfig_Utf/_pywrap_tensorflow_internal.so' (no such file), '/opt/homebrew/lib/_pywrap_tensorflow_internal.so' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/opt/homebrew/lib/_pywrap_tensorflow_internal.so' (no such file)
Topic:
Machine Learning & AI
SubTopic:
General
Tags:
Developer Tools
Metal
Machine Learning
tensorflow-metal
:
Hello, I’m seeking clarification on whether Apple provides any framework or API that enables deep integration between Siri and advanced AI assistants (such as ChatGPT), including system-level functions like voice interaction, navigation, cross-platform syncing, and operational access similar to Siri’s own capabilities. If no such option exists today, I would appreciate guidance on the recommended path or approved third-party solutions for building a unified, voice-first experience across Apple’s ecosystem. Thank you for your time and insight.
Hello everyone,
I’m looking for guidance regarding my app review timeline, as things seem unusually delayed compared to previous submissions.
My iOS app was rejected on November 19th due to AI-related policy questions.
I immediately responded to the reviewer with detailed explanations covering:
Model used (Gemini Flash 2.0 / 2.5 Lite)
How the AI only generates neutral, non-directive reflective questions
How the system prevents any diagnosis, therapy-like behavior or recommendations
Crisis-handling limitations
Safety safeguards at generation and UI level
Internal red-team testing and results
Data retention, privacy, and non-use of data for model training
After sending the requested information, I resubmitted the build on November 19th at 14:40.
Since then:
November 20th (7:30) → Status changed to In Review.
November 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th → No movement, still In Review.
My open case on App Store Connect is still pending without updates.
Because of the previous rejection, I expected a short delay, but this is now 5 days total and 3 business days with no progress, which feels longer than usual for my past submissions.
I’m not sure whether:
My app is in a secondary review queue due to the AI-related rejection,
The reviewer is waiting for internal clarification,
Or if something is stuck and needs to be escalated.
I don’t want to resubmit a new build unless necessary, since that would restart the queue.
Could someone from the community (or Apple, if possible) confirm whether this waiting time is normal after an AI-policy rejection?
And is there anything I should do besides waiting — for example, contacting Developer Support again or requesting a follow-up?
Thank you very much for your help. I appreciate any insight from others who have experienced similar delays.
I am working on an app using FoundationModels to process web pages.
I am looking to find ways to filter the input to fit within the token limits.
I have unit tests, UI tests and the app running on an iPad in the simulator. It appears that the different configurations of the test environment seems to affect the token limits.
That is, the same input in a unit test and UI test will hit different token limits.
Is this correct? Or is this an artifact of my test tooling?
Topic:
Machine Learning & AI
SubTopic:
Foundation Models