{"id":47855,"date":"2025-05-23T16:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T20:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47855"},"modified":"2025-05-23T16:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T20:31:50","slug":"ios-18-4-default-translation-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/23\/ios-18-4-default-translation-app\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 18.4: Default Translation App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/05\/19\/google-translate-default-option-ios\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/05\/19\/google-translate-default-option-ios\/\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/ios-18-4-features-2\/\">iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4<\/a> added the ability for users to set a different translation app as their default. Users worldwide can select Google Translate or another translation app as an alternative, and there are also options for changing the default Email, Messaging, Calling, Browser, and Password apps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I wish there were more options, like setting the default maps app outside of the EU, but this is certainly a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2025\/05\/22\/google-translate-default-ios-18\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2025\/05\/22\/google-translate-default-ios-18\">\n<p> Providing default app settings makes the platform stronger. Apple should <em>want<\/em> to support alternatives to its own apps and services, not do so only at the point of regulatory pressure. It&rsquo;s <em>clearly<\/em> what&rsquo;s best for the platform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/20\/why-apple-still-hasnt-cracked-ai\/\">Why Apple Still Hasn&rsquo;t Cracked AI<\/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\/14\/dma-compliance-default-maps-app-in-eu\/\">DMA Compliance: Default Maps App in EU<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/22\/ios-18-browser-choice-and-default-app-controls-in-eu\/\">iOS 18: Browser Choice and Default App Controls in EU<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 added the ability for users to set a different translation app as their default. Users worldwide can select Google Translate or another translation app as an alternative, and there are also options for changing the default Email, Messaging, Calling, Browser, and Password apps. I wish there were more [&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":"2025-05-23T20:31:53Z","apple_news_api_id":"d495f105-d831-4df8-bda9-3c5911c8252b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-05-23T20:31:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A1JXxBdgxTfi9qTxZEcglKw","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":[31,2586,106,2139,2216],"class_list":["post-47855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-maps","tag-natural-language-translation","tag-translate-app"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47855","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=47855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47856,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47855\/revisions\/47856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}