Apple Intelligence to gain wide language support in April 2025

Apple Intelligence is currently available in U.S. English only but will expand to support several other languages in the early second quarter of 2025, including several not previously announced.

Apple Intelligence has rolled out for iPhone, iPad, and Mac on Monday with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1, but the new feature currently only supports U.S. English. The iOS 18.2 beta shows that support will be expanded to English from Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom in December.

However, non-English speaking countries needn't wait too long for their turn with Apple's newest AI-powered features, as they will drop in April 2025. A footnote in Monday's Apple Newsroom announcement reads as follows:

Apple Intelligence is quickly adding support for more languages. In December, Apple Intelligence will be available for localized English in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.K., and in April, a software update will deliver expanded language support, with more coming throughout the year. Chinese, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and other languages will be supported.

Apple Intelligence is finally available to the public as part of Monday's software updates.

Currently, macOS Sequoia boasts a limited amount of new features, including Writing Tools and an improved Siri. Of Apple's Mac lineup, only Apple Silicon devices can use Apple Intelligence.

The iPhone and iPad have also gained Apple Intelligence. Apple Intelligence is limited to iPad models with M1 and later chips and the iPad mini with the A17 Pro chip.

Apple Intelligence is only available to iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16, and iPhone 16 Pro lines.

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gatorguy 24627 comments · 13 Years

About 1 month ago

More evidence that it was never about uncertainly in EU law to begin with, but that Apple simply was not yet far enough along with AI language support. It's taking a few months to get there, which is a fair excuse. It takes a lot of work and engineering time to prepare for regions outside the US market. Kudos to Apple for moving as fast as they have.

danox 3442 comments · 11 Years

At this time, the EU or China (Because of government interference) doesn’t matter get support for the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Norway, Switzerland, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Saudi Arabia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Belize, Jamaica and the Spanish speaking countries aside from Spain (EU).https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-market-share-by-country All of the countries south of China aside from Indonesia, have large iPhone marketshare many of the countries are over 30% and growing very surprising, so Apple has many other places to serve before China, Russia, India or the EU if they have burr up their a__ about Apple Intelligence.

ihatescreennames 1977 comments · 19 Years

gatorguy said:

More evidence that it was never about uncertainly in EU law to begin with, but that Apple simply was not yet far enough along with AI language support. It's taking a few months to get there, which is a fair excuse. It takes a lot of work and engineering time to prepare for regions outside the US market. Kudos to Apple for moving as fast as they have.

Why do you think it was never about uncertainty? Apple Intelligence is a feature Apple is using to sell devices. There’s no reason for them to make their devices harder to sell by crippling them. It’s odd that people think it ISN’T about the vagueness of the DMA and is instead about spite.

iOS and iPadOS qualify as gatekeepers in the EU and Apple hasn’t promised Apple Intelligence will be coming to those OSes. On the other hand, macOS is not a gatekeeper so it will be getting Apple Intelligence in the EU. Announcing more language support makes sense, but isn’t an indicator that Apple Intelligence will be rolling out in the EU on iOS and iPadOS.

ihatescreennames said:

gatorguy said:

More evidence that it was never about uncertainly in EU law to begin with, but that Apple simply was not yet far enough along with AI language support. It's taking a few months to get there, which is a fair excuse. It takes a lot of work and engineering time to prepare for regions outside the US market. Kudos to Apple for moving as fast as they have.

Why do you think it was never about uncertainty? Apple Intelligence is a feature Apple is using to sell devices. There’s no reason for them to make their devices harder to sell by crippling them. It’s odd that people think it ISN’T about the vagueness of the DMA and is instead about spite.

How can I be reasonably certain? Because the EU law didn't change. Apple did.

They were incapable of offering those services anywhere but the US and in US English. Not Australia. Not Canada. Not South Africa or New Zealand, and for the same reasons not the EU. And they weren't refusing out of spite. Now that they've had time to begin language support for other regions, then some not-the-US locales will get Apple AI. It was never laws preventing it. Apple was not yet prepared for it.

gatorguy said:

ihatescreennames said:

gatorguy said:

More evidence that it was never about uncertainly in EU law to begin with, but that Apple simply was not yet far enough along with AI language support. It's taking a few months to get there, which is a fair excuse. It takes a lot of work and engineering time to prepare for regions outside the US market. Kudos to Apple for moving as fast as they have.

Why do you think it was never about uncertainty? Apple Intelligence is a feature Apple is using to sell devices. There’s no reason for them to make their devices harder to sell by crippling them. It’s odd that people think it ISN’T about the vagueness of the DMA and is instead about spite.

How can I be reasonably certain? Because the EU law didn't change. Apple did.

They were incapable of offering those services anywhere but the US and in US English. Not Australia. Not Canada. Not South Africa or New Zealand, and for the same reasons not the EU. And they weren't refusing out of spite. Now that they've had time to begin language support for other regions, then some not-the-US locales will get Apple AI. It was never laws preventing it. Apple was not yet prepared for it.

Apple didn’t change. From the start they said macOS would get Apple Intelligence in the EU and iOS/iPadOS wouldn’t (until what was allowed under the DMA was clarified and then a decision would be made). That hasn’t changed. I’m not sure what you think has.

ETA: to clarify, all the announced language support is for Apple Intelligence in general, but not for iOS and iPadOS in the EU, only for macOS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/121115

The relevant part, undated today:

“For European Union residents: Apple Intelligence is available with macOS Sequoia 15.1 on supported Mac models. For iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1, Apple Intelligence will not currently work if you are in the EU and if your Apple Account Country/Region is also in the EU. If traveling outside of the EU, Apple Intelligence will work on your iPhone or iPad if your language and Siri language are set to a supported language.”