iOSWorld: A Benchmark for Personally Intelligent Phone Agents

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Introduces iOSWorld, an interactive native iOS simulator benchmark with persistent user identity across 26 apps, designed to evaluate personalized mobile agent capabilities through 133 tasks of increasing difficulty.

A useful phone agent needs to be personally intelligent. It should reason over a user's identity, history, and preferences as they exist on the device, not just follow isolated instructions in an impersonal sandbox. Existing mobile agent benchmarks lack this kind of personalization. We introduce iOSWorld, the first interactive native iOS simulator benchmark built around a persistent user identity spanning 26 newly built iOS apps. These apps contain connected data such as transactions, messages, travel records, social relationships, and financial activity. iOSWorld includes 133 tasks across three increasingly difficult categories. Single-app tasks (27) test one app, multi-app tasks (60) span 2 to 8 apps, and memory and personalization tasks (46) require agents to infer patterns from personal data. We evaluate frontier and open-source computer-use models in both vision-only and privileged vision+XML settings. The best configuration reaches 52\% overall but only 37\% on multi-app tasks. Privileged vision+XML access improves frontier models by up to 26 percentage points, while smaller models do not benefit from added accessibility-tree input. We release iOSWorld as an open-source benchmark with all apps, seeded data, tasks, rubrics, and evaluation code.
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IOSWorld is introduced as the first interactive native iOS simulator benchmark featuring persistent user identity across multiple apps to evaluate personalized mobile agent capabilities.

A useful phone agent needs to be personally intelligent. It should reason over a user’s identity, history, and preferences as they exist on the device, not just follow isolated instructions in an impersonal sandbox. Existingmobile agent benchmarkslack this kind of personalization. We introduce iOSWorld, the first interactive nativeiOS simulatorbenchmark built around apersistent user identityspanning 26 newly built iOS apps. These apps contain connected data such as transactions, messages, travel records, social relationships, and financial activity. iOSWorld includes 133 tasks across three increasingly difficult categories. Single-app tasks (27) test one app, multi-app tasks (60) span 2 to 8 apps, and memory and personalization tasks (46) require agents to infer patterns from personal data. We evaluate frontier and open-sourcecomputer-use modelsin bothvision-onlyand privilegedvision+XMLsettings. The best configuration reaches 52\% overall but only 37\% on multi-app tasks. Privilegedvision+XMLaccess improves frontier models by up to 26 percentage points, while smaller models do not benefit from addedaccessibility-treeinput. We release iOSWorld as an open-source benchmark with all apps, seeded data, tasks, rubrics, and evaluation code.

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