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With iOS 26.1, Apple Intelligence is gaining support for additional languages, including Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), and Vietnamese.

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Apple announced plans to expand the languages that can be used with Apple Intelligence last year, and now the added language support is here. Apple Intelligence is now available in the following languages:
  • English (U.S.)
  • English (Australia)
  • English (Canada)
  • English (New Zealand)
  • English (U.K.)
  • English (South Africa)
  • English (India)
  • English (Singapore)
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
  • German
  • Italian
  • Korean
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Danish (iOS 26.1)
  • Dutch (iOS 26.1)
  • Norwegian (iOS 26.1)
  • Portuguese (Portugal) (iOS 26.1)
  • Swedish (iOS 26.1)
  • Turkish (iOS 26.1)
  • Chinese (Traditional) (iOS 26.1)
  • Vietnamese
The iOS 26.1 update also adds more languages that work with AirPods Live Translation, including Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Chinese (both Mandarin Traditional and Simplified).

iOS 26.1 is available for developers right now, but Apple will likely expand it to public beta testers in the coming weeks.

Article Link: iOS 26.1 Adds New Apple Intelligence Languages and Expands AirPods Live Translation
 
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It is very funny why Apple Intelligence still isn’t available in Polish ? The country with almost 40 millions of people hasn’t Siri and Apple AI in polish language. That’s abnormal. I Think Polish is simplier than Vietnamese or few asian languages :mad:
 


With iOS 26.1, Apple Intelligence is gaining support for additional languages, including Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), and Vietnamese.

Apple-Intelligence-General-Feature-2.jpg

Apple announced plans to expand the languages that can be used with Apple Intelligence last year, and now the added language support is here. Apple Intelligence is now available in the following languages:
  • English (U.S.)
  • English (Australia)
  • English (Canada)
  • English (New Zealand)
  • English (U.K.)
  • English (South Africa)
  • English (India)
  • English (Singapore)
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
  • German
  • Italian
  • Korean
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Danish (iOS 26.1)
  • Dutch (iOS 26.1)
  • Norwegian (iOS 26.1)
  • Portuguese (Portugal) (iOS 26.1)
  • Swedish (iOS 26.1)
  • Turkish (iOS 26.1)
  • Chinese (Traditional) (iOS 26.1)
  • Vietnamese
The iOS 26.1 update also adds more languages that work with AirPods Live Translation, including Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (both Mandarin Traditional and Simplified).

iOS 26.1 is available for developers right now, but Apple will likely expand it to public beta testers in the coming weeks.

Article Link: iOS 26.1 Adds New Apple Intelligence Languages and Expands AirPods Live Translation
Still no Arabic? Come on Apple!
 
It is very funny why Apple Intelligence still isn’t available in Polish ? The country with almost 40 millions of people hasn’t Siri and Apple AI in polish language. That’s abnormal. I Think Polish is simplier than Vietnamese or few asian languages :mad:
Sorry but I don't think I would understand it much more than Vietnamese... 🙂
 
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It is very funny why Apple Intelligence still isn’t available in Polish ? The country with almost 40 millions of people hasn’t Siri and Apple AI in polish language. That’s abnormal. I Think Polish is simplier than Vietnamese or few asian languages :mad:
I mean, blame the DMA? It states that before any device/service can be designated a gatekeeper, it has to be offered in 3 or more member countries. Germany counts as one, France counts as two and Poland would count as three. So, as long as it’s not in Poland (or anywhere else in the EU) they avoid gatekeeper fines.

Sounds to me like the folks in charge knew how it would affect how companies invest, so they specifically made sure that Germany and France would still get their tech. And the rep in Poland signed off on this. :)
 
I mean, blame the DMA? It states that before any device/service can be designated a gatekeeper, it has to be offered in 3 or more member countries. Germany counts as one, France counts as two and Poland would count as three. So, as long as it’s not in Poland (or anywhere else in the EU) they avoid gatekeeper fines.

Sounds to me like the folks in charge knew how it would affect how companies invest, so they specifically made sure that Germany and France would still get their tech. And the rep in Poland signed off on this. :)
Are you one of those people that think Europe is a country?
Macrumors literally gave you a list with supported languages (before 26.1) and except German and French there's also Italian and Spanish.
So not sure what's your point with the "gatekeeper fines for 3 or more EU members" when Apple AI is available for every EU country, just not in every language and with 26.1 they're adding even more supported languages.
 
Looking forward to the Chinese language choice. I was able to download French, but trying to add Spanish always crashes the attempt. Anyone else having this issue? (loading onto an iPhone Air)
 
The iOS 26.1 update also adds more languages that work with AirPods Live Translation, including Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Chinese (both Mandarin Traditional and Simplified).

I have to remind for a second time Mandarin is only one language. Traditional and Simplified are written forms that have nothing to do with AirPods Live Translation.

There has always been Traditional and Simplified text translation.
 
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I have to remind for a second time Mandarin is only one language. Traditional and Simplified are written forms that have nothing to do with AirPods Live Translation.

There has always been Traditional and Simplified text translation.
When the other person doesn’t have an iPhone with Live Translation and the iPhone needs to display text on the iPhone’s screen for the other person to read… wouldn’t that require the difference be clear (for the person doing the reading)?
 
It is very funny why Apple Intelligence still isn’t available in Polish ? The country with almost 40 millions of people hasn’t Siri and Apple AI in polish language. That’s abnormal. I Think Polish is simplier than Vietnamese or few asian languages :mad:
According to EU regulations, live translation is not available in the whole EU, exactly where it could be most useful.
 
Are you one of those people that think Europe is a country?
Macrumors literally gave you a list with supported languages (before 26.1) and except German and French there's also Italian and Spanish.
So not sure what's your point with the "gatekeeper fines for 3 or more EU members" when Apple AI is available for every EU country, just not in every language and with 26.1 they're adding even more supported languages.
Apple Intelligence is ONLY available in Germany and France in the EU. The number of languages it supports just means that, in those two countries you can speak those languages and make use of the feature.

The DMA is an important piece of EU specific legislation for you to know about, you should read up on it.
 
Oh my, so Siri will suddenly be able to speak all European languages.

We'll see, or rather hear how that will go 😱
 
It is very funny why Apple Intelligence still isn’t available in Polish ? The country with almost 40 millions of people hasn’t Siri and Apple AI in polish language. That’s abnormal. I Think Polish is simplier than Vietnamese or few asian languages :mad:
I hear you my friend. But I think it’s not about population or language difficulty but rather simply about amount of people with iPhone using it. Quick google tells me that Poland has huge population of 40 million BUT 4.8% uses iPhone, Vietnam is population of 101 million with 40% using iPhone. There are smaller populations but with relatively high percentage of iPhone users. Perhaps it’s just that.

No offence in any way just trying to understand it with you.

But also me myself as non native speaker of English I would be ok if we would drop support of all other languages than English and just focus on that. Yeah, today it will be drawback missing support in other languages but in the future we would benefit from that. I just believe all AI models will always be better in English as it’s the language with most written texts to scrap.

Ps. I am hoping for AI to die eventually. Yeah it’s great and I myself use it a lot but I am not sure I want us to go this way. Soon we will be building models detecting if information came from AI or is actually human created.
 
It is very funny why Apple Intelligence still isn’t available in Polish ? The country with almost 40 millions of people hasn’t Siri and Apple AI in polish language. That’s abnormal. I Think Polish is simplier than Vietnamese or few asian languages :mad:
Even worse, there's a lot of places that speak spanish officially, and for some reason most of siri, ai, visual lookup, etc are missing on those places.
 
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Apple Intelligence is ONLY available in Germany and France in the EU. The number of languages it supports just means that, in those two countries you can speak those languages and make use of the feature.

The DMA is an important piece of EU specific legislation for you to know about, you should read up on it.
I'm pretty sure that geo-blocking the Apple Intelligence service like you suggest would be illegal under EU law. That's why Apple Intelligence (or Live Translate) needs to be blocked either for all member states, or none at all. Apple can't pick and choose where it works inside the EU on a whim.
 
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