Apple is rumored to offer users the ability to run various AI features in iOS 27 with third-party models as an alternative to Apple Intelligence.
Apple has been trying to catch up with the rest of the AI market, but it may not have to worry about doing so for iOS 27. If a report is true, Apple will make it easier to use third-party alternatives throughout the operating system.
According to sources from Bloomberg On Tuesday, users will be able to choose from several third-party AI models, which can be used for various tasks within the operating system. This is a change coming to iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27.
Although users can already use ChatGPT for certain actions on their iPhone, the new version will also work with other models. These integrations apparently included models from Anthropic and Google, the sources claim.
These models will be responsible for answering queries, editing and generating text, as well as generating images. This looks a lot like ChatGPT’s existing capabilities in iOS 26.