On-device Suggestions
macOS 26+, eligible Apple Intelligence hardware with its on-device model ready, opt-in, Accessibility and Screen Recording.
What Suggestions uses
Section titled “What Suggestions uses”Suggestions ranks a limited set of existing items for the current app. It needs an identifiable, eligible focused window. Stash reads the visible window during a request and passes extracted context and candidate excerpts to Apple’s on-device model. The request does not save the screen context in the library. Ignored apps and detected secure fields are excluded.
Enable and check requirements
Section titled “Enable and check requirements”- Use macOS 26 or later and a Mac eligible for Apple Intelligence. An Intel Mac can run Stash but does not meet the Suggestions requirement.
- Enable Apple Intelligence and wait until its system language model is available for Stash.
- In Settings → Intelligence, enable Enable on-device Suggestions. Grant Accessibility and use Allow Screen Recording… if you choose to allow Stash to read the visible window.
- Open Stash over a supported app and use the sparkle button.
Stash distinguishes an unsupported device, disabled Apple Intelligence, and a model that is not ready. A not-ready message does not tell you whether a download is in progress. If focus is unresolved, open an ordinary editable window and try again. Successful native ranking was not established by the package checks.