Apple adds five languages to Siri AI and leaves the EU off the list

Apple said on October 26, 2026 that Siri AI is expanding to French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish with the 27.2 software updates released that day. The newsroom note calls Siri AI a new version of Siri, built on Apple Intelligence, and says it is in beta on iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, macOS 27.2, watchOS 27.2, and visionOS 27.2. It requires an Apple Intelligence-enabled device set to a supported language. The capability sentences below are Apple’s product description. This desk has not tested the software.

Which languages, and which limits

Apple says Siri AI is available in English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. It says further support, in Chinese (traditional), Norwegian, Turkish, and Vietnamese, is coming by the end of the year. The same note lists a wider set of languages for Apple Intelligence with Siri and the device language, including Chinese (simplified), Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Swedish, and others, and it says some features may be missing in some regions or languages. Siri AI’s language list on the page is the shorter one.

Three limits are printed in the availability section. Siri AI is currently unavailable in the European Union on iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS. Apple says it is working with the EU to find a path forward. Siri AI is not available for users under 13. Certain Apple Intelligence features that rely on server-side models, including Siri AI, are subject to daily usage limits. Apple says those limits can vary with the feature, the request, system demand, and system policies, and that expanded access will be available for a fee in the future. The note does not print that fee.

What Apple says the feature does

Apple says Siri AI uses personal context to help people find things in messages, email, and photos, and that it can draft an email, edit and share photos, answer questions about what is on screen, and take actions tied to that screen. It also says the feature can use broad world knowledge for up-to-date information. Those are the examples on the newsroom page. The page does not publish a measure of accuracy, a share of requests that stay on device, or a date for the EU.

Why it matters (analysis)

The news is a language rollout with the boundaries written on the same page: a beta, a device requirement, an age line, a usage cap with an unnamed future fee, and an EU hold on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Apple’s sentence about working with the EU is the company’s account of that hold. It does not spell out a legal theory, and this report does not add one. For another workplace assistant rollout already on the site, see Uber’s company-wide ChatGPT Work deployment.

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