Apple Intelligence will come to more languages over the next year

By wazup on September 18, 2024 Comments Closed / 51 views

Apple adds German, Italian, and Korean to the list following its US rollout in October.

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Apple Intelligence’s list of forthcoming supported languages just got a little longer. After an October launch in US English, Apple says its AI feature set will be available in German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Vietnamese, “and others” in the coming year. The company drops this news just days before the iPhone 16’s arrival — the phone built for AI that won’t have any AI features at launch.

Apple’s AI feature set will expand to include localized English in the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand in December, with India and Singapore joining the mix next year. The company already announced plans to support Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish next year as well.

Apple announced the iPhone 16 series last week with a major focus on its support for Apple Intelligence. The thing is, those phones — which ship Friday — won’t have AI features right out of the box. Apple Intelligence will arrive later this fall, and even at that point it will only support a subset of features that Apple has outlined. More will roll out in 2025, so even if you live in the US where we’ll get Apple Intelligence first, it’ll still be a waiting game.