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Apple HomeView's Siri AI is English-only: what it means for bilingual homes
HomeView’s Siri AI speaks only English at launch, and your iPhone and Siri languages must match. Canadian French is promised in a later update.
Apple now lists French and German for the shorter 'Siri' wake word
iPhone owners who speak French or German to Siri can drop the “Hey”. Apple’s iOS and iPadOS 27 feature availability page now lists French (France) and German (Germany) under “Activate with Siri”, the option that wakes the assistant when you say just “Siri”, and it adds eight languages to Visual Look Up. iOS 27 and…
Siri AI launched in English only, with five more languages due in October
Siri AI arrived on September 14 in beta, and it speaks one language. Apple’s own announcement says support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish is coming next month, which puts the next five somewhere in October. No date, and no version number. The Apple logo. Image: Apple If your iPhone is set to any…
Apple Intelligence Counts 16 Languages, and Chinese Does Not Work in China Mainland
Apple Intelligence’s language list, published on apple.com/apple-intelligence and repeated in Apple’s September 9 press release, runs to 16 entries once Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional) are counted as two separate languages. Apple’s own live iOS 27 feature availability page, however, marks the Chinese (Simplified) option as excluded in China mainland across several Apple Intelligence features,…
iPhone Duo's Apple Intelligence Count Is 15 Languages. Every Other Apple Page Says 16
Apple’s iPhone Duo press release lists Apple Intelligence in 15 languages. Every other Apple page covering Apple Intelligence for iOS 27, including the June 8 announcement and the general Apple Intelligence page, lists 16. Apple has not reconciled the two figures anywhere in what it has published. Siri AI on iPhone Duo, shown in Apple's…