Apple Creator Studio AI usage limits seem dramatically lower than promised
Source: 9to5Mac
AI usage limits in Apple Creator Studio
When Apple launched the Apple Creator Studio (ACS) subscription, the company indicated that you could use the AI features to produce 50 Keynote presentations per month “as a minimum.” However, developer and security researcher Steve Troughton‑Smith reported a very different experience with AI usage limits.
He found that a single Keynote slideshow consumed half of his monthly ACS limit, meaning the limit would effectively be just two presentations per month.
Troughton‑Smith started by praising Xcode’s Codex support:
“So Xcode just builds entire apps without you now. Xcode’s Codex support will happily trundle away for half an hour sticking its tendrils into every little corner of your project, touching and changing every file … I had Xcode’s new agent feature throw together this little UIKit timeline app, without me writing anything myself, all using Codex … I don’t think I wrote one line manually in this timeline app.”
Reported usage numbers
- The app used 7 % of his weekly Codex usage limit.
- A single (awful) Keynote slideshow used 47 % of his monthly Apple Creator Studio usage limit.
This suggests that creating just two presentations would exhaust his entire monthly AI allocation, far short of the promised 50. Apple’s example numbers are based on extremely short presentations of 8–10 slides, but the disparity remains significant.
As John Gruber notes, the contrast between Codex and Apple Creator Studio limits is the opposite of what one would reasonably expect.
How to check your current usage status
On Mac
- Open Pages, Numbers, or Keynote.
- From the menu bar, choose the app name → Intelligence Features → Show Usage Status.
On iPhone or iPad
- Open Pages, Numbers, or Keynote.
- Tap the More button, then Intelligence Features, and finally Show Usage Status.
If you have a subscription, please check your percentage and share the results in the comments, along with a brief summary of your usage.