Apple Intelligence Available in EU
Starting today, with the availability of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4, Apple Intelligence features are now available in many new languages, including French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (simplified) — as well as localized English for Singapore and India — and are accessible in nearly all regions around the world.
In addition, iPhone and iPad users in the EU have access to Apple Intelligence features for the first time[…]
I’m not sure why the Mac is absent from that list.
Wasn’t macOS 15.4 supposed to bring support for additional languages like German to Apple Intelligence?
He has the system language set to English (which Apple Intelligence already supported) and is getting an error that Apple Intelligence is not available when Siri is set to German. But it works after changing the system language to German.
I remain skeptical that Apple Intelligence was ever “delayed” in the region. Until today, it was only available in variations of English. When Apple announced in November it would be bringing these features to the E.U., it sure seemed like it also needed the time to train its models on a range of new languages reflecting the regions where it would be used.
If Apple was so worried about the wrath of regulators, it could have made accessing Apple Intelligence in the E.U. as complicated as it does E.U.-specific features outside the region. But it did not.
Previously:
- macOS 15.4
- iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4
- Apple Delays “More Personalized Siri” Apple Intelligence Features
- On the Undesign of Apple Intelligence Features
- Questioning EU Geo-Blocking Restrictions
- iOS Apple Intelligence in EU in April 2025
- EU iOS Envy
- No Apple Intelligence or iPhone Mirroring in EU at Launch
Update (2025-04-03): Steve Troughton-Smith:
[The] Mac doesn’t qualify as a VLOP, only iOS and iPadOS. Even if it did, though, it meets most if not all of the DMA requirements anyway, because it’s not locked down like iOS.
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@MJTsai "I’m not sure why the Mac is absent from that list."
Not sure if that image generation thing counts, but if so I've had "Apple Intelligence" on my MBP for awhile. That could be why it's not on that list, it's not "for the first time"
Since the Mac is not covered by the DMA, Apple Intelligence has been available in the EU right from the start.
So this wasn't about the "draconian" ai act? The one that says companies are responsible for what their "ai" does?
Apple Intelligence is sub par. Why on earth would anyone bother?
Sub par like Mail, Me, Cloud, Siri.
What a horrific sub par nightmare, within consumer software, Apple have become.
And furthermore, if your trillion dollar company is making career decisions based off sub par iterations... then it's offspring will inevitably be even worse.
Yes, sub-par nightmares… yet, trillion dollar company. Well, a little less now.
Mail, iCloud are quite good, actually. Siri is adequate for what it is made for: setting timers.
It's easy to draw conclusions about the delay, especially of you're firmly in the "EU is the villain" camp, but delays outside the US is how Apple operate all the time.
Coming from a Swedish perspective it's business as usual with headline features not arriving when they are launched in the US. It can take years to trickle down here. Both software, hardware and services. I mean, we still don't have Apple Vision Pro here, almost two years later.
It becomes even easier to draw conclusions if you have no first hand experience with how US tech companies roll out new products and features. It took many years before we got the Pixel phone etc
I agree with the speculation that this was just the normal translation / market tweaks dressed up as "The EU is being mean to us" as a piece of propaganda. Apple really believe everyone thinks as highly of them as their most ardent fans. They honestly thought people would write angry emails to their EU representatives.
Actually, I did see some of the more blinkered AI boosters posting angrily on LinkedIn about how the EU ruined everything so in a way it worked.
But by taking the knee Apple has lost all goodwill.
