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Apple just held its annual WWDC 2025, during which the company announced major updates coming to its operating systems across devices. During the conference keynote, Apple also revealed that it’s expanding Apple Intelligence, the company’s set of artificial intelligence (AI) features, to more languages than before.
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Apple Intelligence was already available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (simplified). Apple is adding eight more languages by the end of the year: Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (traditional), and Vietnamese.
“Last year, we took the first steps on a journey to bring users intelligence that’s helpful, relevant, easy to use, and right where users need it, all while protecting their privacy. Now, the models that power Apple Intelligence are becoming more capable and efficient, and we’re integrating features in even more places across each of our operating systems,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering.
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Adding new languages makes using the Apple Intelligence features more inclusive than before, as it lets more people from different parts of the world communicate with the AI features. However, it can also expand a user’s learning horizons to include more languages.
For example, as someone who speaks multiple languages, I often ask ChatGPT questions in Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French, as I can rely on the AI chatbot to recognize each language and respond accordingly. Even as a student of new languages, I use the bot to ask questions about pronunciation, definitions, and examples.
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Apple also showcased the new AI-powered Live Translation feature that can translate Messages as they are typed, delivering them in the translated language, and then receive automatically translated messages in return. For Phone calls, the translation is spoken aloud during the conversation. During FaceTime calls, Live Translation lets users follow along with translated live captions.
Apple announced other updates to its AI features, including new updates to Visual Intelligence, integrations with Shortcuts, new languages coming by the end of the year, and improvements to Genmoji and Image Playground.
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