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This release turns on Private Cloud Compute. It needs iOS, iPadOS or macOS 27; on earlier systems everything continues to run on the device exactly as it did in 5.1. PRIVATE CLOUD COMPUTE • When a question needs more room than the model on your device can hold, the app can now hand that single writing step to Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Reading your files, searching them, choosing what to cite and checking the finished answer still happen on your device. • Nothing leaves without asking. Before anything is sent, a sheet shows you what would go: how many passages, how large, and why. Allow it once, allow it always, or keep everything on the device. You can also pin routing to On-Device in Settings and the question never comes up. • Every answer says where it was written. Expand the metrics bar under an answer to see On-Device or Private Cloud Compute. • Apple's servers keep nothing after the answer, the connection is end-to-end encrypted, and the request is not accessible to Apple or to the developer. • Measured on an iPhone with the A18 Pro: roughly 86 tokens per second from Private Cloud Compute, against 27 on the device. DEEP THINK AND MAXIMUM ASK FOR MORE • iOS 27 lets an app tell the server model how hard to think, and only one of the paths that write an answer was asking. The most common one was not, so those two modes often ran at ordinary effort while describing themselves as doing more. All of them ask now. • Expect both modes to take longer than they did in 5.1, and to use more of your daily Private Cloud Compute allowance. A CORRECTION FROM 5.1 • How It Works and the About screen told every iOS 26 user that the app asks before sending a question to Private Cloud Compute. Those builds could not send anything anywhere. Both screens now describe the build you are actually running, and so do the built-in guides, the Glossary and the Settings capability list. Everything except that one writing step still runs on your device.