Mobile applications are increasingly used for sensitive interactions such as financial transactions, healthcare communication, and enterprise operations. This widespread adoption has expanded the client-side attack surface, exposing users to phishing URLs, malicious redirects, and deceptive navigation behaviors. Conventional cybersecurity mechanisms are largely server-centric and often fail to provide immediate protection against real-time or zero-day threats occurring within mobile application runtimes. This paper presents a client-side, AI-driven cybersecurity framework designed specifically for iOS applications using Swift and Apple’s Core ML framework. The proposed approach embeds lightweight machine learning models directly within the mobile application to detect phishing URLs and malicious navigation events in real time. Model optimization techniques are applied to ensure low-latency inference suitable for mobile environments. Experimental evaluation demonstrates high detection accuracy with minimal performance overhead, enabling proactive and privacy-preserving threat mitigation without continuous backend dependency.

iOS Security Client-Side AI Swift Core ML Mobile Cybersecurity Phishing Detection