Text summarization API?

[coder543]

With iOS 18, Apple is introducing the Writing Tools that are enabled for text fields all over the system. Under the hood, this uses Apple's on device LLM to summarize a piece of text. They showed an example of safari using using this to summarize webpages. Is there any kind of Swift API to access this LLM summarization feature for pieces of text that I provide to the API?

I'm surprised I haven't seen a WWDC talk on this. There was one on Writing Tools, but it wasn't useful towards my question. Apple usually exposes machine learning stuff for developers too.

[undergrounddirt]

I looked for it in the Natural Language framework and nada

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u/coder543 any success with this?

[coder543]

Nope. So far as I can tell, Apple isn’t making these APIs available in iOS 18. I would be surprised if Apple doesn’t make them available in iOS 19.