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Crashed: AXSpeech EXC_BAD_ACCESS KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS 0x000056f023efbeb0
Application is getting Crashed: AXSpeech EXC_BAD_ACCESS KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS 0x000056f023efbeb0 Crashed: AXSpeech 0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x4820 objc_msgSend + 32 1 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x6c34 _os_log_fmt_flatten_object + 116 2 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x5344 _os_log_impl_flatten_and_send + 1884 3 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x4bd0 _os_log + 152 4 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x9c48 _os_log_error_impl + 24 5 TextToSpeech 0xd0a8c _pcre2_xclass_8 6 TextToSpeech 0x3bc04 TTSSpeechUnitTestingMode 7 TextToSpeech 0x3f128 TTSSpeechUnitTestingMode 8 AXCoreUtilities 0xad38 -[NSArray(AXExtras) ax_flatMappedArrayUsingBlock:] + 204 9 TextToSpeech 0x3eb18 TTSSpeechUnitTestingMode 10 TextToSpeech 0x3c948 TTSSpeechUnitTestingMode 11 TextToSpeech 0x48824 AXAVSpeechSynthesisVoiceFromTTSSpeechVoice 12 TextToSpeech 0x49804 AXAVSpeechSynthesisVoiceFromTTSSpeechVoice 13 Foundation 0xf6064 __NSThreadPerformPerform + 264 14 CoreFoundation 0x37acc CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION + 28 15 CoreFoundation 0x36d48 __CFRunLoopDoSource0 + 176 16 CoreFoundation 0x354fc __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 244 17 CoreFoundation 0x34238 __CFRunLoopRun + 828 18 CoreFoundation 0x33e18 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 608 19 Foundation 0x2d4cc -[NSRunLoop(NSRunLoop) runMode:beforeDate:] + 212 20 TextToSpeech 0x24b88 TTSCFAttributedStringCreateStringByBracketingAttributeWithString 21 Foundation 0xb3154 NSThread__start + 732 com.livingMedia.AajTakiPhone_issue_3ceba855a8ad2d1af83655803dc13f70_crash_session_9081fa41ced440ae9a57c22cb432f312_DNE_0_v2_stacktrace.txt 22 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x24d4 _pthread_start + 136 23 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x1a10 thread_start + 8
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Massive CoreML latency spike on live AVFoundation camera feed vs. offline inference (CPU+ANE)
Hello, I’m experiencing a severe performance degradation when running CoreML models on a live AVFoundation video feed compared to offline or synthetic inference. This happens across multiple models I've converted (including SCI, RTMPose, and RTMW) and affects multiple devices. The Environment OS: macOS 26.3, iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3 Hardware: Mac14,6 (M2 Max), iPad Pro 11 M1, iPhone 13 mini Compute Units: cpuAndNeuralEngine The Numbers When testing my SCI_output_image_int8.mlpackage model, the inference timings are drastically different: Synthetic/Offline Inference: ~1.34 ms Live Camera Inference: ~15.96 ms Preprocessing is completely ruled out as the bottleneck. My profiling shows total preprocessing (nearest-neighbor resize + feature provider creation) takes only ~0.4 ms in camera mode. Furthermore, no frames are being dropped. What I've Tried I am building a latency-critical app and have implemented almost every recommended optimization to try and fix this, but the camera-feed penalty remains: Matched the AVFoundation camera output format exactly to the model input (640x480 at 30/60fps). Used IOSurface-backed pixel buffers for everything (camera output, synthetic buffer, and resize buffer). Enabled outputBackings. Loaded the model once and reused it for all predictions. Configured MLModelConfiguration with reshapeFrequency = .frequent and specializationStrategy = .fastPrediction. Wrapped inference in ProcessInfo.processInfo.beginActivity(options: .latencyCritical, reason: "CoreML_Inference"). Set DispatchQueue to qos: .userInteractive. Disabled the idle timer and enabled iOS Game Mode. Exported models using coremltools 9.0 (deployment target iOS 26) with ImageType inputs/outputs and INT8 quantization. Reproduction To completely rule out UI or rendering overhead, I wrote a standalone Swift CLI script that isolates the AVFoundation and CoreML pipeline. The script clearly demonstrates the ~15ms latency on live camera frames versus the ~1ms latency on synthetic buffers. (I have attached camera_coreml_benchmark.swift and coreml model (very light low light enghancement model) to this repo on github https://github.com/pzoltowski/apple-coreml-camera-latency-repro). My Question: Is this massive overhead expected behavior for AVFoundation + Core ML on live feeds, or is this a framework/runtime bug? If expected, what is the Apple-recommended pattern to bypass this camera-only inference slowdown? One think found interesting when running in debug model was faster (not as fast as in performance benchmark but faster than 16ms. Also somehow if I did some dummy calculation on on different DispatchQueue also seems like model got slightly faster. So maybe its related to ANE Power State issues (Jitter/SoC Wake) and going to fast to sleep and taking a long time to wakeup? Doing dummy calculation in background thought is probably not a solution. Thanks in advance for any insights!
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tensorflow-metal error
I'm using python 3.9.6, tensorflow 2.20.0, tensorflow-metal 1.2.0, and when I try to run import tensorflow as tf It gives Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/haoduoyu/Code/demo.py", line 1, in <module> import tensorflow as tf File "/Users/haoduoyu/Code/test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tensorflow/__init__.py", line 438, in <module> _ll.load_library(_plugin_dir) File "/Users/haoduoyu/Code/test/lib/python3.9/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/haoduoyu/Code/test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tensorflow-plugins/libmetal_plugin.dylib, 0x0006): Library not loaded: @rpath/_pywrap_tensorflow_internal.so Referenced from: <8B62586B-B082-3113-93AB-FD766A9960AE> /Users/haoduoyu/Code/test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tensorflow-plugins/libmetal_plugin.dylib Reason: tried: '/Users/haoduoyu/Code/test/lib/python3.9/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/haoduoyu/Code/test/lib/python3.9/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) As long as I uninstall tensorflow-metal, nothing goes wrong. How can I fix this problem?
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Error when open mlpackage with XCode
Hello, I'm trying to write a model with PyTorch and convert it to CoreML. I wrote another models and that works succesfully, even the one that gave the problem is, but I can't visualize it with XCode to know where is running. The error that appear is: There was a problem decoding this Core ML document validator error: unable to open file for read Anyone knows why is this happening? Thanks a lot, Álvaro Corrochano
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Apr ’25
macOS 26 Beta 2 - Foundation Models - Symbol not found
It seems like there was an undocumented change that made Transcript.init(entries: [Transcript.Entry] initializer private, which broke my application, which relies on (manual) reconstruction of Transcript entries. Worked fine on beta 1, on beta 2 there's this error dyld[72381]: Symbol not found: _$s16FoundationModels10TranscriptV7entriesACSayAC5EntryOG_tcfC Referenced from: <44342398-591C-3850-9889-87C9458E1440> /Users/mika/experiments/apple-on-device-ai/fm Expected in: <66A793F6-CB22-3D1D-A560-D1BD5B109B0D> /System/Library/Frameworks/FoundationModels.framework/Versions/A/FoundationModels Is this a part of an API transition, if so - Apple, please update your documentation
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Jun ’25
Core ML .mlpackage not found in bundle despite target membership and Copy Bundle Resources
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
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Dec ’25
Foundation Model Always modelNotReady
I'm testing Foundation Model on my iPad Pro (5th gen) iOS 26. Up until late this morning, I can no longer load the SystemLanguageModel.default. I'm not doing anything interesting, something as basic as this is only going to unavailable, specifically I get unavailable reason: modelNotReady. let model = SystemLanguageModel.default ... switch model.availability { case .available: print("LM available") case .unavailable(let reason): print("unavailable reason: ", String(describing: reason)) } I also ran the FoundationModelsTripPlanner app, same thing. It was working yesterday, I have not modified that project either. Why is the Model not ready? How do I fix this? Yes, I tried restarting both my laptop and iPad, no luck.
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Jul ’25
LanguageModelSession always returns very lengthy responses
No matter what, the LanguageModelSession always returns very lengthy / verbose responses. I set the maximumResponseTokens option to various small numbers but it doesn't appear to have any effect. I've even used this instructions format to keep responses between 3-8 words but it returns multiple paragraphs. Is there a way to manage LLM response length? Thanks.
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Sep ’25
Safety Guardrail errors for tiny prompt (dropped into large app)
I was able to open a new project and play around with the Foundation Model, but when I dropped this class in a production app (with a lot of files) I'm running into Safety Guardrail errors for this very small prompt. Specifically it's "Safety guardrail was triggered after consecutive failures during streaming." Does it have something to do with the size of the app? I don't know what else to try to get it to work? import FoundationModels import Playgrounds @available(iOS 26.0, *) #Playground { Task { do { let session = LanguageModelSession() let prompt = "Write a short story about a talking cat." let response = try await session.respond(to: prompt) print(response) } catch { print("Error: \(error)") } } }
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Jun ’25
Vision and iOS18 - Failed to create espresso context.
I'm playing with the new Vision API for iOS18, specifically with the new CalculateImageAestheticsScoresRequest API. When I try to perform the image observation request I get this error: internalError("Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-1 \"Failed to create espresso context.\" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to create espresso context.}") The code is pretty straightforward: if let image = image { let request = CalculateImageAestheticsScoresRequest() Task { do { let cgImg = image.cgImage! let observations = try await request.perform(on: cgImg) let description = observations.description let score = observations.overallScore print(description) print(score) } catch { print(error) } } } I'm running it on a M2 using the simulator. Is it a bug? What's wrong?
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Sep ’25
InferenceError with Apple Foundation Model – Context Length Exceeded on macOS 26.0 Beta
Hello Team, I'm currently working on a proof of concept using Apple's Foundation Model for a RAG-based chat system on my MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip. Environment details: macOS: 26.0 Beta Xcode: 26.0 beta 2 (17A5241o) Target platform: iPad (as the iPhone simulator does not support Foundation models) While testing, even with very small input prompts to the LLM, I intermittently encounter the following error: InferenceError::inference-Failed::Failed to run inference: Context length of 4096 was exceeded during singleExtend. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Are there known limitations or workarounds for context length handling in this setup? Any insights would be appreciated. Thank you!
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Jul ’25
Help with dates in Foundation Model custom Tool
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?
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Dec ’25
Accessing Apple Intelligence APIs: Custom Prompt Support and Inference Capabilities
Hello Apple Developer Community, I'm exploring the integration of Apple Intelligence features into my mobile application and have a couple of questions regarding the current and upcoming API capabilities: Custom Prompt Support: Is there a way to pass custom prompts to Apple Intelligence to generate specific inferences? For instance, can we provide a unique prompt to the Writing Tools or Image Playground APIs to obtain tailored outputs? Direct Inference Capabilities: Beyond the predefined functionalities like text rewriting or image generation, does Apple Intelligence offer APIs that allow for more generalized inference tasks based on custom inputs? I understand that Apple has provided APIs such as Writing Tools, Image Playground, and Genmoji. However, I'm interested in understanding the extent of customization and flexibility these APIs offer, especially concerning custom prompts and generalized inference. Additionally, are there any plans or timelines for expanding these capabilities, perhaps with the introduction of new SDKs or frameworks that allow deeper integration and customization? Any insights, documentation links, or experiences shared would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your assistance!
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Jun ’25
Apple's PCC + Foundation Models
Hi, I am developing an iOS application that utilizes Apple’s Foundation Models to perform certain summarization tasks. I would like to understand whether user data is transferred to Private Cloud Compute (PCC) in cases where the computation cannot be performed entirely on-device. This information is critical for our internal security and compliance reviews. I would appreciate your clarification on this matter. Thank you.
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Failing to run SystemLanguageModel inference with custom adapter
Hi, I have trained a basic adapter using the adapter training toolkit. I am trying a very basic example of loading it and running inference with it, but am getting the following error: Passing along InferenceError::inferenceFailed::loadFailed::Error Domain=com.apple.TokenGenerationInference.E5Runner Code=0 "Failed to load model: ANE adapted model load failure: createProgramInstanceWithWeights:modelToken:qos:baseModelIdentifier:owningPid:numWeightFiles:error:: Program load new instance failure (0x170006)." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to load model: ANE adapted model load failure: createProgramInstanceWithWeights:modelToken:qos:baseModelIdentifier:owningPid:numWeightFiles:error:: Program load new instance failure (0x170006).} in response to ExecuteRequest Any ideas / direction? For testing I am including the .fmadapter file inside the app bundle. This is where I load it: @State private var session: LanguageModelSession? // = LanguageModelSession() func loadAdapter() async throws { if let assetURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "qasc---afm---4-epochs-adapter", withExtension: "fmadapter") { print("Asset URL: \(assetURL)") let adapter = try SystemLanguageModel.Adapter(fileURL: assetURL) let adaptedModel = SystemLanguageModel(adapter: adapter) session = LanguageModelSession(model: adaptedModel) print("Loaded adapter and updated session") } else { print("Asset not found in the main bundle.") } } This seems to work fine as I get to the log Loaded adapter and updated session. However when the below inference code runs I get the aforementioned error: func sendMessage(_ msg: String) { self.loading = true if let session = session { Task { do { let modelResponse = try await session.respond(to: msg) DispatchQueue.main.async { self.response = modelResponse.content self.loading = false } } catch { print("Error: \(error)") DispatchQueue.main.async { self.loading = false } } } } }
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Jun ’25
Overly strict foundation model rate limit when used in app extension
I am calling into an app extension from a Safari Web Extension (sendNativeMessage, which in turn results in a call to NSExtensionRequestHandling’s beginRequest). My Safari extension aims to make use of the new foundation models for some of the features it provides. In my testing, I hit the rate limit by sending 4 requests, waiting 30 seconds between each. This makes the FoundationModels framework (which would otherwise serve my use case perfectly well) unusable in this context, because the model is called in response to user input, and this rate of user input is perfectly plausible in a real world scenario. The error thrown as a result of the rate limit is “Safety guardrail was triggered after consecutive failures during streaming.", but looking at the system logs in Console.app shows the rate limit as the real culprit. My suggestions: Please introduce sensible rate limits for app extensions, through an entitlement if need be. If it is rate limited to 1 request per every couple of seconds, that would already fix the issue for me. Please document the rate limit. Please make the thrown error reflect that it is the result of a rate limit and not a generic guardrail violation. IMPORTANT: please indicate in the thrown error when it is safe to try again. Filed a feedback here: FB18332004
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Jun ’25
Shortcut - “Use Model” error handling?
I have a series of shortcuts that I’ve written that use the “Use Model” action to do various things. For example, I have a shortcut “Clipboard Markdown to Notes” that takes the content of the clipboard, creates a new note in Notes, converts the markdown content to rich text, adds it to the note etc. One key step is to analyze the markdown content with “Use Model” and generate a short descriptive title for the note. I use the on-device model for this, but sometimes the content and prompt exceed the context window size and the action fails with an error message to that effect. In that case, I’d like to either repeat the action using the Cloud model, or, if the error was a refusal, to prompt the user to enter a title to use. I‘ve tried using an IF based on whether the response had any text in it, but that didn’t work. No matter what I’ve tried, I can’t seem to find a way to catch the error from Use Model, determine what the error was, and take appropriate action. Is there a way to do this? (And by the way, a huge ”thank you” to whoever had the idea of making AppIntents visible in Shortcuts and adding the Use Model action — has made a huge difference already, and it lets us see what Siri will be able to use as well.)
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Jan ’26
Crashed: AXSpeech EXC_BAD_ACCESS KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS 0x000056f023efbeb0
Application is getting Crashed: AXSpeech EXC_BAD_ACCESS KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS 0x000056f023efbeb0 Crashed: AXSpeech 0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x4820 objc_msgSend + 32 1 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x6c34 _os_log_fmt_flatten_object + 116 2 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x5344 _os_log_impl_flatten_and_send + 1884 3 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x4bd0 _os_log + 152 4 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x9c48 _os_log_error_impl + 24 5 TextToSpeech 0xd0a8c _pcre2_xclass_8 6 TextToSpeech 0x3bc04 TTSSpeechUnitTestingMode 7 TextToSpeech 0x3f128 TTSSpeechUnitTestingMode 8 AXCoreUtilities 0xad38 -[NSArray(AXExtras) ax_flatMappedArrayUsingBlock:] + 204 9 TextToSpeech 0x3eb18 TTSSpeechUnitTestingMode 10 TextToSpeech 0x3c948 TTSSpeechUnitTestingMode 11 TextToSpeech 0x48824 AXAVSpeechSynthesisVoiceFromTTSSpeechVoice 12 TextToSpeech 0x49804 AXAVSpeechSynthesisVoiceFromTTSSpeechVoice 13 Foundation 0xf6064 __NSThreadPerformPerform + 264 14 CoreFoundation 0x37acc CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION + 28 15 CoreFoundation 0x36d48 __CFRunLoopDoSource0 + 176 16 CoreFoundation 0x354fc __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 244 17 CoreFoundation 0x34238 __CFRunLoopRun + 828 18 CoreFoundation 0x33e18 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 608 19 Foundation 0x2d4cc -[NSRunLoop(NSRunLoop) runMode:beforeDate:] + 212 20 TextToSpeech 0x24b88 TTSCFAttributedStringCreateStringByBracketingAttributeWithString 21 Foundation 0xb3154 NSThread__start + 732 com.livingMedia.AajTakiPhone_issue_3ceba855a8ad2d1af83655803dc13f70_crash_session_9081fa41ced440ae9a57c22cb432f312_DNE_0_v2_stacktrace.txt 22 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x24d4 _pthread_start + 136 23 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x1a10 thread_start + 8
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Massive CoreML latency spike on live AVFoundation camera feed vs. offline inference (CPU+ANE)
Hello, I’m experiencing a severe performance degradation when running CoreML models on a live AVFoundation video feed compared to offline or synthetic inference. This happens across multiple models I've converted (including SCI, RTMPose, and RTMW) and affects multiple devices. The Environment OS: macOS 26.3, iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3 Hardware: Mac14,6 (M2 Max), iPad Pro 11 M1, iPhone 13 mini Compute Units: cpuAndNeuralEngine The Numbers When testing my SCI_output_image_int8.mlpackage model, the inference timings are drastically different: Synthetic/Offline Inference: ~1.34 ms Live Camera Inference: ~15.96 ms Preprocessing is completely ruled out as the bottleneck. My profiling shows total preprocessing (nearest-neighbor resize + feature provider creation) takes only ~0.4 ms in camera mode. Furthermore, no frames are being dropped. What I've Tried I am building a latency-critical app and have implemented almost every recommended optimization to try and fix this, but the camera-feed penalty remains: Matched the AVFoundation camera output format exactly to the model input (640x480 at 30/60fps). Used IOSurface-backed pixel buffers for everything (camera output, synthetic buffer, and resize buffer). Enabled outputBackings. Loaded the model once and reused it for all predictions. Configured MLModelConfiguration with reshapeFrequency = .frequent and specializationStrategy = .fastPrediction. Wrapped inference in ProcessInfo.processInfo.beginActivity(options: .latencyCritical, reason: "CoreML_Inference"). Set DispatchQueue to qos: .userInteractive. Disabled the idle timer and enabled iOS Game Mode. Exported models using coremltools 9.0 (deployment target iOS 26) with ImageType inputs/outputs and INT8 quantization. Reproduction To completely rule out UI or rendering overhead, I wrote a standalone Swift CLI script that isolates the AVFoundation and CoreML pipeline. The script clearly demonstrates the ~15ms latency on live camera frames versus the ~1ms latency on synthetic buffers. (I have attached camera_coreml_benchmark.swift and coreml model (very light low light enghancement model) to this repo on github https://github.com/pzoltowski/apple-coreml-camera-latency-repro). My Question: Is this massive overhead expected behavior for AVFoundation + Core ML on live feeds, or is this a framework/runtime bug? If expected, what is the Apple-recommended pattern to bypass this camera-only inference slowdown? One think found interesting when running in debug model was faster (not as fast as in performance benchmark but faster than 16ms. Also somehow if I did some dummy calculation on on different DispatchQueue also seems like model got slightly faster. So maybe its related to ANE Power State issues (Jitter/SoC Wake) and going to fast to sleep and taking a long time to wakeup? Doing dummy calculation in background thought is probably not a solution. Thanks in advance for any insights!
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What Should the iOS Deployment Target Be?
The deployment target for my app was set to iOS 18.1 originally, but now that I'm using Foundational Models framework, it has been set to iOS 26.0. Is this ok?
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Download toolkit link failing for Foundation Models adapter training
Attempted to download the Adapter Toolkit linked to from https://developer.apple.com/apple-intelligence/foundation-models-adapter/. Failed on all attempts, with a "403 Forbidden" error. I had accepted the agreement on the first attempt. How would we get access please?
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Jun ’25
tensorflow-metal error
I'm using python 3.9.6, tensorflow 2.20.0, tensorflow-metal 1.2.0, and when I try to run import tensorflow as tf It gives Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/haoduoyu/Code/demo.py", line 1, in <module> import tensorflow as tf File "/Users/haoduoyu/Code/test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tensorflow/__init__.py", line 438, in <module> _ll.load_library(_plugin_dir) File "/Users/haoduoyu/Code/test/lib/python3.9/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/haoduoyu/Code/test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tensorflow-plugins/libmetal_plugin.dylib, 0x0006): Library not loaded: @rpath/_pywrap_tensorflow_internal.so Referenced from: <8B62586B-B082-3113-93AB-FD766A9960AE> /Users/haoduoyu/Code/test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tensorflow-plugins/libmetal_plugin.dylib Reason: tried: '/Users/haoduoyu/Code/test/lib/python3.9/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/haoduoyu/Code/test/lib/python3.9/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) As long as I uninstall tensorflow-metal, nothing goes wrong. How can I fix this problem?
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Jan ’26
Use apple private cloud model instead of local model
Hello, I have created this basic swift program: let session = LanguageModelSession( model: .default, instructions: "bla bla bla.") I want to understand what I can put in model parameter (instead of .default). How can I choose between on-device local model (.default I suppose) and apple private cloud model (or any other ?) Thanks
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Oct ’25
Error when open mlpackage with XCode
Hello, I'm trying to write a model with PyTorch and convert it to CoreML. I wrote another models and that works succesfully, even the one that gave the problem is, but I can't visualize it with XCode to know where is running. The error that appear is: There was a problem decoding this Core ML document validator error: unable to open file for read Anyone knows why is this happening? Thanks a lot, Álvaro Corrochano
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Apr ’25
macOS 26 Beta 2 - Foundation Models - Symbol not found
It seems like there was an undocumented change that made Transcript.init(entries: [Transcript.Entry] initializer private, which broke my application, which relies on (manual) reconstruction of Transcript entries. Worked fine on beta 1, on beta 2 there's this error dyld[72381]: Symbol not found: _$s16FoundationModels10TranscriptV7entriesACSayAC5EntryOG_tcfC Referenced from: <44342398-591C-3850-9889-87C9458E1440> /Users/mika/experiments/apple-on-device-ai/fm Expected in: <66A793F6-CB22-3D1D-A560-D1BD5B109B0D> /System/Library/Frameworks/FoundationModels.framework/Versions/A/FoundationModels Is this a part of an API transition, if so - Apple, please update your documentation
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Jun ’25
Core ML .mlpackage not found in bundle despite target membership and Copy Bundle Resources
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
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Dec ’25
Foundation Model Always modelNotReady
I'm testing Foundation Model on my iPad Pro (5th gen) iOS 26. Up until late this morning, I can no longer load the SystemLanguageModel.default. I'm not doing anything interesting, something as basic as this is only going to unavailable, specifically I get unavailable reason: modelNotReady. let model = SystemLanguageModel.default ... switch model.availability { case .available: print("LM available") case .unavailable(let reason): print("unavailable reason: ", String(describing: reason)) } I also ran the FoundationModelsTripPlanner app, same thing. It was working yesterday, I have not modified that project either. Why is the Model not ready? How do I fix this? Yes, I tried restarting both my laptop and iPad, no luck.
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Jul ’25
LanguageModelSession always returns very lengthy responses
No matter what, the LanguageModelSession always returns very lengthy / verbose responses. I set the maximumResponseTokens option to various small numbers but it doesn't appear to have any effect. I've even used this instructions format to keep responses between 3-8 words but it returns multiple paragraphs. Is there a way to manage LLM response length? Thanks.
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Sep ’25
Safety Guardrail errors for tiny prompt (dropped into large app)
I was able to open a new project and play around with the Foundation Model, but when I dropped this class in a production app (with a lot of files) I'm running into Safety Guardrail errors for this very small prompt. Specifically it's "Safety guardrail was triggered after consecutive failures during streaming." Does it have something to do with the size of the app? I don't know what else to try to get it to work? import FoundationModels import Playgrounds @available(iOS 26.0, *) #Playground { Task { do { let session = LanguageModelSession() let prompt = "Write a short story about a talking cat." let response = try await session.respond(to: prompt) print(response) } catch { print("Error: \(error)") } } }
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Jun ’25
Vision and iOS18 - Failed to create espresso context.
I'm playing with the new Vision API for iOS18, specifically with the new CalculateImageAestheticsScoresRequest API. When I try to perform the image observation request I get this error: internalError("Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-1 \"Failed to create espresso context.\" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to create espresso context.}") The code is pretty straightforward: if let image = image { let request = CalculateImageAestheticsScoresRequest() Task { do { let cgImg = image.cgImage! let observations = try await request.perform(on: cgImg) let description = observations.description let score = observations.overallScore print(description) print(score) } catch { print(error) } } } I'm running it on a M2 using the simulator. Is it a bug? What's wrong?
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Sep ’25
InferenceError with Apple Foundation Model – Context Length Exceeded on macOS 26.0 Beta
Hello Team, I'm currently working on a proof of concept using Apple's Foundation Model for a RAG-based chat system on my MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip. Environment details: macOS: 26.0 Beta Xcode: 26.0 beta 2 (17A5241o) Target platform: iPad (as the iPhone simulator does not support Foundation models) While testing, even with very small input prompts to the LLM, I intermittently encounter the following error: InferenceError::inference-Failed::Failed to run inference: Context length of 4096 was exceeded during singleExtend. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Are there known limitations or workarounds for context length handling in this setup? Any insights would be appreciated. Thank you!
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Jul ’25
Help with dates in Foundation Model custom Tool
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?
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Dec ’25
Accessing Apple Intelligence APIs: Custom Prompt Support and Inference Capabilities
Hello Apple Developer Community, I'm exploring the integration of Apple Intelligence features into my mobile application and have a couple of questions regarding the current and upcoming API capabilities: Custom Prompt Support: Is there a way to pass custom prompts to Apple Intelligence to generate specific inferences? For instance, can we provide a unique prompt to the Writing Tools or Image Playground APIs to obtain tailored outputs? Direct Inference Capabilities: Beyond the predefined functionalities like text rewriting or image generation, does Apple Intelligence offer APIs that allow for more generalized inference tasks based on custom inputs? I understand that Apple has provided APIs such as Writing Tools, Image Playground, and Genmoji. However, I'm interested in understanding the extent of customization and flexibility these APIs offer, especially concerning custom prompts and generalized inference. Additionally, are there any plans or timelines for expanding these capabilities, perhaps with the introduction of new SDKs or frameworks that allow deeper integration and customization? Any insights, documentation links, or experiences shared would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your assistance!
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Jun ’25
Apple's PCC + Foundation Models
Hi, I am developing an iOS application that utilizes Apple’s Foundation Models to perform certain summarization tasks. I would like to understand whether user data is transferred to Private Cloud Compute (PCC) in cases where the computation cannot be performed entirely on-device. This information is critical for our internal security and compliance reviews. I would appreciate your clarification on this matter. Thank you.
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Feb ’26
Failing to run SystemLanguageModel inference with custom adapter
Hi, I have trained a basic adapter using the adapter training toolkit. I am trying a very basic example of loading it and running inference with it, but am getting the following error: Passing along InferenceError::inferenceFailed::loadFailed::Error Domain=com.apple.TokenGenerationInference.E5Runner Code=0 "Failed to load model: ANE adapted model load failure: createProgramInstanceWithWeights:modelToken:qos:baseModelIdentifier:owningPid:numWeightFiles:error:: Program load new instance failure (0x170006)." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to load model: ANE adapted model load failure: createProgramInstanceWithWeights:modelToken:qos:baseModelIdentifier:owningPid:numWeightFiles:error:: Program load new instance failure (0x170006).} in response to ExecuteRequest Any ideas / direction? For testing I am including the .fmadapter file inside the app bundle. This is where I load it: @State private var session: LanguageModelSession? // = LanguageModelSession() func loadAdapter() async throws { if let assetURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "qasc---afm---4-epochs-adapter", withExtension: "fmadapter") { print("Asset URL: \(assetURL)") let adapter = try SystemLanguageModel.Adapter(fileURL: assetURL) let adaptedModel = SystemLanguageModel(adapter: adapter) session = LanguageModelSession(model: adaptedModel) print("Loaded adapter and updated session") } else { print("Asset not found in the main bundle.") } } This seems to work fine as I get to the log Loaded adapter and updated session. However when the below inference code runs I get the aforementioned error: func sendMessage(_ msg: String) { self.loading = true if let session = session { Task { do { let modelResponse = try await session.respond(to: msg) DispatchQueue.main.async { self.response = modelResponse.content self.loading = false } } catch { print("Error: \(error)") DispatchQueue.main.async { self.loading = false } } } } }
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Jun ’25
Overly strict foundation model rate limit when used in app extension
I am calling into an app extension from a Safari Web Extension (sendNativeMessage, which in turn results in a call to NSExtensionRequestHandling’s beginRequest). My Safari extension aims to make use of the new foundation models for some of the features it provides. In my testing, I hit the rate limit by sending 4 requests, waiting 30 seconds between each. This makes the FoundationModels framework (which would otherwise serve my use case perfectly well) unusable in this context, because the model is called in response to user input, and this rate of user input is perfectly plausible in a real world scenario. The error thrown as a result of the rate limit is “Safety guardrail was triggered after consecutive failures during streaming.", but looking at the system logs in Console.app shows the rate limit as the real culprit. My suggestions: Please introduce sensible rate limits for app extensions, through an entitlement if need be. If it is rate limited to 1 request per every couple of seconds, that would already fix the issue for me. Please document the rate limit. Please make the thrown error reflect that it is the result of a rate limit and not a generic guardrail violation. IMPORTANT: please indicate in the thrown error when it is safe to try again. Filed a feedback here: FB18332004
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Jun ’25
Shortcut - “Use Model” error handling?
I have a series of shortcuts that I’ve written that use the “Use Model” action to do various things. For example, I have a shortcut “Clipboard Markdown to Notes” that takes the content of the clipboard, creates a new note in Notes, converts the markdown content to rich text, adds it to the note etc. One key step is to analyze the markdown content with “Use Model” and generate a short descriptive title for the note. I use the on-device model for this, but sometimes the content and prompt exceed the context window size and the action fails with an error message to that effect. In that case, I’d like to either repeat the action using the Cloud model, or, if the error was a refusal, to prompt the user to enter a title to use. I‘ve tried using an IF based on whether the response had any text in it, but that didn’t work. No matter what I’ve tried, I can’t seem to find a way to catch the error from Use Model, determine what the error was, and take appropriate action. Is there a way to do this? (And by the way, a huge ”thank you” to whoever had the idea of making AppIntents visible in Shortcuts and adding the Use Model action — has made a huge difference already, and it lets us see what Siri will be able to use as well.)
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