Apple Intelligence Will Expand to 11 More Countries Next Year
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Apple has announced its plans to expand Apple Intelligence to five more languages and countries in 2025, bringing the total number of regions supporting Apple’s new AI features to 17 by the end of 2025.
The first phase of Apple Intelligence will launch next month with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1. However, this will technically still be labeled a “beta” and available solely in US English.
Based on the current iOS 18.1 developer betas, folks in other regions should be able to access Apple Intelligence as long as they set their Siri and device languages to US English. However, localized versions for other English-speaking regions won’t arrive until December, likely as part of iOS 18.2 or iOS 18.3.
During last week’s Glowtime event, Apple announced that Apple Intelligence will gain English language support for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom by the end of this year. These will likely arrive alongside updates that deliver ChatGPT integration and upcoming generative AI features like Genmoji and Image Playground.
However, that will still be limited to English only. Apple customers in Quebec and other French-speaking parts of Canada will need to wait until sometime in 2025 for Apple to add French, which it’s promised to do along with Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese.
Although Apple hasn’t given a specific timeline for those — it merely says they’re coming “starting next year” — it announced to The Verge and several other media outlets today that seven more languages, including two regional English dialects, will be coming in 2025.
The additional list includes English for India and Singapore, as well as German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, and Vietnamese. As things stand now, here’s the full list of languages that Apple Intelligence will support by the end of 2025, although Apple could certainly add more as time goes by:
- English (United States)
- English (Australia)
- English (Canada)
- English (New Zealand)
- English (South Africa)
- English (United Kingdom)
- Chinese
- French
- Japanese
- Spanish
- English (India)
- English (Singapore)
- German
- Italian
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Vietnamese
While Apple lists languages rather than countries, at least two, German and Italian, are specific to the European Union. French, Spanish, and Portuguese are spoken in several other countries, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Brazil, and it’s notable that Apple only lists the Brazilian flavor of Portuguese as a supported language for its iOS 18 call recording transcripts.
Either way, the addition of German and Italian isn’t necessarily an indication that Apple will have things worked out to fully launch Apple Intelligence in the European Union by next year. The company is working through the ramifications of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and how it could force it to open up the iPhone and iPad and give the same access to other AI competitors, but even if it remains at an impasse, the DMA only affects Apple’s mobile devices; Apple Intelligence is already available for European Mac users in the macOS Sequoia 15.1 betas if they’re willing to set their language to US English. The additional European languages may end up applying only to the Mac.
On the other hand, Apple Intelligence is a non-starter in China on any Apple devices, not due to antitrust legislation but because the Chinese government insists that all generative AI systems be approved by the regime. Apple is already seeking an alternative partner to replace OpenAI’s ChatGPT in China for that aspect of Apple Intelligence. It’s also likely already working with Chinese officials to get its AI large language models (LLMs) approved — undoubtedly with modifications that will make them more palatable to the authorities. The announcement that Chinese will be on the list of languages coming in 2025 suggests that Apple is at least optimistic that it will have this sorted out by then.
