Apple made its debut in the first beta version of iOS 26.1 Today, and the most important additions are the new languages of the live translation function AirPods and Apple Intelligence.
Five other languages for AirPods Live translation
With the announcement of AirPods Pro 3, Apple has promised to soon extend the languages supported for Apple Intelligence and airpods live translation. Apparently, “soon” was not an exaggeration like iOS 26.1 Beta 1 added new languages to both features, such as reported by 9TO5MAC.Live translation was one of the new most impressive features, but it was limited to American English and the United Kingdom, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish in Spain. The first iOS 26.1 Beta adds the following five languages to the mixture:
- Chinese (Mandarin, simplified)
- Chinese (Mandarin, Traditional)
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
With the update, Apple ends its promise to add these languages by the end of the year. The company not mentioned any specific plan to add other languages.
Apple Intelligence obtains eight new languages
- Chinese (traditional)
- Danish
- Dutch
- Norwegian
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
Initially, Apple Intelligence was only available in American English, but Apple quickly added the support for some different English accents. The last time Apple added new languages was in March.
Galaxy Ai, available on the Galaxy S25 and other Samsung devices supports up to 39 languages, depending on the functionality you are looking for. About nine languages have access to all Galaxy Ai features, while Call Assist supports 20 languages.
Gemini de Google, which is preinstalled on the Pixel 10 series but is available on any Android or iOS device, supports more than 45 languages. However, certain features, such as “Hey Google”, are not supported by all languages.
It’s not enough, Apple
The addition of new languages is great and a crucial part of the improvement Apple IntelligenceBut it is far from enough. I would even say that the addition of features is more important than the extension of the linguistic support. After all, I still count on Chatgpt, Claude and Gemini for any task linked to the IA that I have, and the addition of languages will not make me pass Apple Intelligence.
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