--- title: WWDC26: What’s new in the Foundation Models framework |... description: Apple's WWDC26 session covers major updates to the Foundation Models framework for iOS/macOS/watchOS developers. Key announcements include: the framework going... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/wwdc26-what-s-new-in-the-foundation-models-framework-apple-fvhk32jqp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: WWDC26: What’s new in the Foundation Models framework | Apple | daily.dev og:description: Apple's WWDC26 session covers major updates to the Foundation Models framework for iOS/macOS/watchOS developers. Key announcements include: the framework going... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/wwdc26-what-s-new-in-the-foundation-models-framework-apple-fvhk32jqp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FVHk32jQP.png og:image:alt: WWDC26: What’s new in the Foundation Models framework | Apple 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. # WWDC26: What’s new in the Foundation Models framework | Apple **[Apple Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/appledeveloper)** · 21 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Apple's WWDC26 session covers major updates to the Foundation Models framework for iOS/macOS/watchOS developers. Key announcements include: the framework going open source, a new on-device model with vision capabilities (image attachments), access to a PrivateCloudComputeLanguageModel with reasoning support and a 32K token context window, a new LanguageModel protocol abstraction enabling third-party models (Anthropic, Google), built-in system tools (BarcodeReaderTool, OCRTool, Spotlight-powered RAG search), a new declarative 'dynamic profiles' API for building agentic multi-mode sessions, a new Evaluations framework for measuring AI feature quality, a command-line tool (fm CLI), and a Python SDK. The framework now supports watchOS via Private Cloud Compute, and open sourcing enables use on Linux servers as well. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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