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iPhone The Doubao phone assistant is coming? Pelican lets AI it keep working on the lock screen
Beating AI News reported that developer Finn Voorhees announced iPhone AI Agent the app Pelican and has begun inviting a small number of users to test it through TestFlight testing, with an official launch planned soon. It supports MCP, browser operations, maps, and other tools, and can connect to AI models from different providers. According to Finn, the Agent executes tasks directly on iPhone and can continue working even when users switch apps or lock the screen, without requiring an additional Mac mini.
A few days ago, Finn demonstrated using Pi Agent and Claude Opus 5.5 to operate iPhone, automatically opening Ryanair to search for flights, with no computer involved throughout. He had previously open-sourced PiDurableKit, which uses Apple's JavaScriptCore to run Pi Agent on iPhone and uses SQLite to save task state, allowing execution to resume after recovery even if it is interrupted by the system. PiChat, a chat app developed on this framework, also uses Apple's background task mechanism to let the Agent continue working after switching to another app.
When asked whether Pelican runs entirely locally, Finn replied that apart from model API requests, everything else is completed on the phone. He also plans to introduce a local small model so that the Agent will not need to upload certain private data to the cloud.
Pelican is still in the early testing stage, and Finn has not yet confirmed whether the cross-app tapping capability demonstrated previously has been integrated.
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