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Bringing On-Device AI to your app: Using Apple’s Foundation Models

Build smarter, private AI features in your apps with Foundation Models on iOS 26 + Pro Tips

9 min readJun 17, 2025
Ice Cubes features using the new Foundation Models framework

The first thing I did when watching the WWDC25 Keynote and State of the Union was play with the new Liquid Glass API. It took me a few days to get Ice Cubes up and running, and the 2.0 will take full advantage of the latest Liquid Glass design system in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

Ice Cubes 2.0 Liquid Glassed

I also got busy playing with a new icon, but that’s a story for later!

New Ice Cubes iconusing the new Icon Composer app

As a reminder, this is an open-source application, and you can follow along about iOS 26 support below:

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Thomas Ricouard
Thomas Ricouard

Written by Thomas Ricouard

📱 🚀 🇫🇷 [Entrepreneur, iOS/Mac & Web dev] | Now @Medium, @Glose 📖| Past @google 🔍 | Co-founded few companies before, a movies 🎥 app and smart browser one.

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