Apple lays groundwork for agentic AI on iPhone, iPad, and Mac with MCP support: Report

Apple introduced the iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1 Developer beta update today and with that the company began laying work for adopting Model Context Protocol (MCP).

According to a report by 9to5Mac referencing code in the new updates, Apple could soon integrate MCP in its software. Introduced by Anthropic last year, MCP has quickly transformed into standard way for large language models (LLMs) to connect with everyday software.

MCP has been adopted by companies like Zapier, Notion, Google, Figma, OpenAI, Salesforce and more.

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