WWDC26 Apple Intelligence: A Developer's Deep Dive After 3 Months

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Apple Intelligence shipped with macOS 15.4. After 3 months of daily use, here’s the honest deep dive — what’s good, what’s broken, and what matters for developers. What Shipped (the actual list)

Writing Tools — Rewrite, Proofread, Summarize (system-wide) Image Playground — text-to-image (on-device, 3B param model) Genmoji — text-to-emoji (on-device, similar architecture) Siri 2.0 — LLM-powered, on-device for simple queries, Private Cloud Compute for complex Image Wand — turn rough sketches into polished images Priority Messages — LLM-summarized emails Smart Reply — context-aware quick responses

What Works (3-month test) Writing Tools

Proofread: catches 90% of typos, including context-specific ones Rewrite: 4 styles (Professional, Friendly, Concise, Standard) — useful Summarize: works well for long emails, less so for technical docs

Siri 2.0

Voice commands now feel natural (3B on-device model) Cross-app actions (e.g., “send this photo to John in Messages”) work reliably “When did Mom’s flight land?” type questions are actually answered correctly

What’s Broken Image Playground

Output quality is mediocre. 512x512 generation, often distorted Style consistency is poor (asks for “a cat in watercolor” gets 5 different cat styles) Apple says it improves over time — it does, slowly

Genmoji

Cute but limited — only 4-5 styles per emoji For “make me a happy cat” it gives a yellow cat, not much variety

Siri Web Search

When you ask “find me the best Chinese restaurant nearby” it often returns random Google results, not contextual Apple promised Private Cloud Compute for privacy — but it requires internet, so the privacy claim is dubious

What Matters for Developers Foundation Model API Apple opened up the Foundation Model API in macOS 15.4. You can now call the on-device LLM from your apps: import FoundationModels

let model = SystemLanguageModel.default let session = LanguageModelSession(model: model)

let response = try await session.respond( to: “Explain quantum entanglement in 3 sentences” ) print(response.content) Privacy by design — runs locally, no network