This year, new APIs were introduced such as l Metal Performance Shaders which provide access to high-performance Metal kernel. But this is still GPU. Are there APIs or plans to provide API and language to access ANE layer?
In iOS 26, the Apple Neural Engine (ANE) is accessible to apps through Core ML, which can target the ANE among other compute units. There is no public API or language for programming the ANE directly, equivalent to Metal Shading Language for the GPU.
If your application requires direct ANE programming, please file a Feedback Assistant request at https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/.
