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A Developer's Guide to Apple's Foundation Models Framework in iOS 26
What it is: A free, privacy-first, on-device LLM framework (featuring a ~3B parameter model) that runs locally on the Neural Engine via LanguageModelSession.
Killer Features:
Tool Calling: Allows the model to seamlessly trigger your local Swift functions (e.g., fetching weather or calendar data).
@Generable: Forces the model to output type-safe Swift structs, completely eliminating the need to parse raw JSON.
Streaming: Built-in support for asynchronous response streaming for better UX.
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