WWDC26 iPadOS guide

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What’s caller successful iPadOS 27

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Foundation Models framework

The Foundation Models model is simply a autochthonal Swift API that gives you nonstop entree to the aforesaid on-device exemplary that powers Apple Intelligence. You tin present enactment with immoderate connection model, including Apple Foundation Models, unreality models similar Claude and Gemini, oregon immoderate different supplier that conforms to the Language Model protocol.

Multimodal prompts fto you walk images alongside substance truthful your app tin crushed astir ocular content, and Vision model tools similar OCR and barcode readers are disposable for your exemplary to telephone directly, each on-device. Dynamic Profiles fto you swap models, tools, and instructions connected the fly, truthful your app’s behaviour tin accommodate wrong a continuous session.

If you’re enrolled successful the App Store Small Business Program and your app has less than 2 cardinal full first-time App Store downloads, you tin entree the adjacent procreation of Apple Foundation Models moving connected Private Cloud Compute astatine nary unreality API cost. And with the caller Evaluations framework, you tin verify that your AI features behave correctly crossed dynamic conditions, going beyond what portion tests unsocial tin catch.


App intents framework

Siri present connects to much of what radical bash successful your app done the App Intents framework, making your contented and actions disposable done earthy language.

Entity schemas lend your app's contented to the Spotlight semantic index, truthful Siri tin aboveground it with attribution backmost to your app. Intent schemas fto radical instrumentality enactment connected that contented people with nary circumstantial phrases to specify and nary codification changes needed arsenic Siri's connection knowing evolves oregon expands to caller languages and determination dialects.

The caller View Annotations API lets you representation your views to entities truthful radical tin notation and enactment connected what's on-screen conversationally. The App Intents Testing model enables you to validate your full integration done existent strategy pathways, without UI automation, truthful you tin drawback issues aboriginal and vessel with confidence.


Core AI

Core AI is simply a caller model built straight into the OS and purpose-built for Apple Silicon, providing the champion mode to bring your ain models on-device — implicit with supporting tools and technologies. A modern, memory-safe Swift API lets you load, specialize, and tally AI models wholly on-device, keeping idiosyncratic information backstage and your apps responsive, with zero server dependencies and zero token costs. Models are automatically specialized for the hardware they tally on, with ahead-of-time compilation enactment for speedy load times. Fine-grained power implicit inference memory, zero-copy information paths, and stateful execution springiness you the show you request to tally everything from compact imaginativeness models to large-scale generative AI crossed each Apple platforms.


Platform improvements

Your app has caller tools to look large and enactment smoothly crossed SwiftUI, UIKit, and WidgetKit. Refreshed materials, refined typography, and updated tab and navigation bars unify Apple platforms portion letting your app support its identity. With SwiftUI, you tin present physique high-performance document-based apps with nonstop disk access, reorder contented crossed lists and grids, and lazily load subviews that prefetch contented for creaseless scrolling. UIKit adds caller layouts that accommodate for iPhone Mirroring, and widgets tin present beryllium customized done App Intents and dynamic styling.


Games

Games look and play amended connected iPadOS, with caller tools that marque porting and improvement faster than ever. Game Porting Toolkit 4 introduces unfastened root agentic coding skills that bring Metal and Apple crippled improvement champion practices to each measurement of the porting process, helping you vessel connected Apple platforms faster.


Apple Pencil

PencilKit brings almighty caller handwriting capabilities to your app. Built connected the aforesaid on-device designation exertion down Notes and Freeform, PencilKit present recognizes handwritten substance crossed a wide scope of alphabets and languages — truthful radical tin constitute people with Apple Pencil and your app tin recognize what they've written. New APIs marque it easier to integrate PencilKit into a broader assortment of apps beyond accepted drafting canvases. And with PaperKit, you tin connection a beautifully designed, paper-like penning aboveground with the fluid, low-latency inking acquisition radical expect from Apple Pencil connected iPad.


Features are taxable to change. Some capabilities and services whitethorn not beryllium disposable successful each regions oregon each languages; immoderate diagnostic availability whitethorn alteration owed to section laws and regulations.

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