{"id":47302,"date":"2025-04-03T15:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47302"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:13:48","slug":"apple-intelligence-available-in-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/03\/apple-intelligence-available-in-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Intelligence Available in EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ca\/newsroom\/2025\/03\/apple-intelligence-features-expand-to-new-languages-and-regions-today\/\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ca\/newsroom\/2025\/03\/apple-intelligence-features-expand-to-new-languages-and-regions-today\/\">\n<p>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) &mdash; as well as localized English for Singapore and India &mdash; and are accessible in nearly all regions around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, iPhone and iPad users in the EU have access to Apple Intelligence features for the first time[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not sure why the Mac is absent from that list.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wien.rocks\/@noheger\/114263840406669364\">Norbert Heger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/wien.rocks\/@noheger\/114263840406669364\">\n<p>Wasn&rsquo;t macOS 15.4 supposed to bring support for additional languages like German to Apple Intelligence?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>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 <em>Siri<\/em> is set to German. But it works after changing the <em>system language<\/em> to German.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/new-ai-features-languages\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/new-ai-features-languages\/\">\n<p>I remain skeptical that Apple Intelligence was ever &ldquo;delayed&rdquo; in the region. Until today, it was only available in variations of English. When Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/apple-intelligence-eu-april\/\">announced in November<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n<p>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/c.im\/@nickheer\/113104779813614367\">But it did not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/macos-15-4\/\">macOS 15.4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/ios-18-4-and-ipados-18-4\/\">iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/12\/apple-delays-more-personalized-siri-apple-intelligence-features\/\">Apple Delays &ldquo;More Personalized Siri&rdquo; Apple Intelligence Features<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/17\/on-the-undesign-of-apple-intelligence-features\/\">On the Undesign of Apple Intelligence Features<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/13\/questioning-eu-geo-blocking-restrictions\/\">Questioning EU Geo-Blocking Restrictions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/31\/ios-apple-intelligence-in-eu-in-april-2025\/\">iOS Apple Intelligence in EU in April 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/10\/eu-ios-envy\/\">EU iOS Envy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/21\/no-apple-intelligence-or-iphone-mirroring-in-eu-at-launch\/\">No Apple Intelligence or iPhone Mirroring in EU at Launch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Update (2025-04-03): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114275617141123435\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114275617141123435\"><p>[The] Mac doesn&rsquo;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&rsquo;s not locked down like iOS.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple: 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) &mdash; as well as localized English for Singapore and India &mdash; and are accessible in nearly all regions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-04-03T19:05:22Z","apple_news_api_id":"9a91c115-37ff-4490-9c8e-9f59f0e7dd3f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-04-03T19:13:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AmpHBFTf_RJCcjp9Z8OfdPw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2602,2570,1927,31,2586,30,2598,247],"class_list":["post-47302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-intelligence","tag-digital-markets-act-dma","tag-european-union","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-mac","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-siri"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47311,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47302\/revisions\/47311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}