Apple Intelligence

What started in Xcode 26 as a single "Intelligence" chat panel has turned, by Xcode 26.3, into a genuine three-way race: Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's Codex, and Apple's own built-in assistant are all sitting in the same IDE, all able to touch your code, and all fighting for the same job.

Apple previewed the next generation of Apple Intelligence at WWDC on June 8, and unlike the 2024 rollout, most of what was shown is already in a developer beta with a public beta due in July and a full release this fall alongside macOS 27. The headline is a rebuilt Siri, but the features that will change your day-to-day are scattered across Safari, Photos, Shortcuts, and Passwords. Here's what's real, what runs on your Mac versus in the cloud, and where the caveats are. One s

Apple Intelligence on macOS Tahoe 26 is useful. Writing Tools rewrites text in place in any app. Mail summarizes threads. Image Playground generates stuff. And when Siri gets stumped, it hands off to ChatGPT (now GPT-5 as of Tahoe 26). But there's no Claude anywhere in that list, and that's a problem if Claude is the model you actually want to use. Apple is expected to fix this at WWDC 2026 in June with an "Extensions" system that lets Claude, Gemini, and other assistants plu