Ammon News - Most people who use AI daily, including me, have already found their preferences. I use a paid Claude subscription to help with my editorial chores (headline brainstorming, fine-tuning the tone, etc.), while Gemini is my go-to AI model for image generation and background research, especially when I want to go deep on a topic.

Maybe you use Perplexity for search or ChatGPT for code, and that’s absolutely fine, as it only boosts your productivity and gets you the right information faster. The problem is, the operating system on your phone or laptop isn’t aware of your choice, and until now, it didn’t even care before imposing its own choice of AI.

In the corporate world, we call this partnerships. Most Android manufacturers, including Samsung and OnePlus, have partnered with Google to integrate Gemini on their devices. Windows, on the other hand, gives you Copilot, whether you take it or leave it.

Apple, reportedly, is about to do something neither of them has bothered to ask, much less execute: which AI do you actually want to use, and where?

The days of your phone choosing an AI for you are almost over
The moment you look at what Android and Windows are doing, the contrast gets stark fast.

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, iOS 27 will introduce a new feature that Apple internally calls “Extensions.” It will let you select your preferred AI model for a specific Apple Intelligence tool without simply surrendering to whatever AI model the company decides to install.

When iOS 27 arrives, you should be able to head into Settings, assign your preferred third-party AI model to an Apple Intelligence feature (Writing Tools, Image Playground, etc.), and iOS 27 takes it from there. Siri also gets the same treatment, letting you select the AI model that handles your requests at the backend.

The moment iOS 27 lands on my iPhone 17, I am going to select Claude as the AI model of my choice for Writing Tools and Gemini for Image Playground.

This isn’t just a regular choice, but a frictionless, system-level choice. You set it once, and every time you invoke the Apple Intelligence tool, your preferred AI model shows up. No switching of apps or copy-pasting prompts and outputs across windows required.

That’s what true model portability looks like in practice, and in my frank opinion, it’s a more coherent solution than anything Android or Windows has ever implemented.

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