Apple Approves MLX LLM Serving App in Under 10 Hours, Stunning 19-Year iOS Dev

alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-09-21

Developer @ddalcu's MLX-Serve on iPhone app — which runs LiquidAI models with local on-device inference — was approved by Apple in under 10 hours. The developer says this never happened in 19 years of iOS development, publicly thanking Apple and executive John Ternus.

He had previously joked that App Store review typically takes 3 months just to learn a rejection reason, so the lightning-fast approval is a striking contrast — possibly signaling a shift in Apple's stance toward on-device AI inference apps.

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