--- title: Getting Started with Foundation Models in iOS 26 | daily.dev description: Apple's new Foundation Models framework in iOS 26 enables developers to integrate on-device AI capabilities directly into their apps using Swift. The framework... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-started-with-foundation-models-in-ios-26-yv6mgdwhc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Getting Started with Foundation Models in iOS 26 | daily.dev og:description: Apple's new Foundation Models framework in iOS 26 enables developers to integrate on-device AI capabilities directly into their apps using Swift. The framework... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-started-with-foundation-models-in-ios-26-yv6mgdwhc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yV6mGdwhC.png og:image:alt: Getting Started with Foundation Models in iOS 26 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Getting Started with Foundation Models in iOS 26 **[Appcoda](https://daily.dev/sources/appcoda)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Apple's new Foundation Models framework in iOS 26 enables developers to integrate on-device AI capabilities directly into their apps using Swift. The framework provides access to the same language models powering Apple Intelligence, ensuring privacy by processing everything locally without internet connectivity. Developers can build features like content generation, question answering, and conversational assistants using the SystemLanguageModel class. The tutorial demonstrates creating an "Ask Me Anything" app that showcases both complete and streaming response generation, session management for context preservation, and proper UI handling during model processing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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