LM Studio adds iPhone-to-Mac Link for local LLMs
LM Studio adds iPhone-to-Mac Link for local LLMs
https://letsdatascience.com/news/lm-studio-adds-iphone-to-mac-link-for-local-llms-97175e03
Publish Date: 2026-06-04 13:21:00
Source Domain: letsdatascience.com
LM Studio has extended its LM Link feature to the iPhone, letting users run language models on a more powerful machine they own, such as a Mac, and use them from a phone as if they were local, 9to5Mac reports. LM Studio’s official site describes LM Link as a way to load models on remote devices you control, desktops, GPU rigs, or cloud VMs, over an end-to-end encrypted connection, built “on top of custom Tailscale mesh VPNs” so devices are never exposed to the public internet. LM Studio introduced LM Link earlier in 2026 in partnership with Tailscale, which detailed the integration in a February blog post; the June update brings the same capability to iPhone. Per LM Studio’s FAQ, chats stay on the local device and only a device list reaches LM Studio’s servers, used for discovery. Any installed model works, and LM Link is free during the Preview period, with free and paid tiers planned at general availability.
