Apple working on MCP support to enable agentic AI on Mac, iPhone, and iPad (9to5mac.com)

Apple is quietly preparing to bring Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to macOS, iOS and iPadOS: beta code shows Apple is extending its App Intents framework so apps can expose actions and content to system-level MCP integrations. In practice this would let MCP‑aware models and agents (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) call into apps via Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts and other system surfaces to autonomously perform tasks — for example reading calendars and notes, triggering app features, or chaining multi‑app workflows — without each developer having to individually implement full MCP plumbing. This matters because MCP, proposed by Anthropic and rapidly adopted by companies like OpenAI, Google, Notion, Figma, Zapier and Salesforce, is becoming the de facto standard for connecting LLMs to APIs and data sources (think HTTP/SMTP for AI). Apple’s approach plugs that standard into App Intents, enabling safer, scalable agentic integrations across the platform while preserving system-level discovery and controls (Siri suggestions, Focus, hardware actions). The implementation in current betas is nascent, so rollout timing is uncertain, but the move signals a major step toward native, platform-wide agent capabilities on Mac, iPhone and iPad.