Apple released its 27.2 software updates on 26 October, making Siri AI available in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish alongside English. The expansion brings the beta assistant, which Apple says can use information from a person’s messages, emails and photos to answer requests, to five more languages across its supported devices.
Key points
- Siri AI now supports English and five additional languages.
- The beta requires an Apple Intelligence-enabled device set to a supported language.
- Apple says some server-based features, including Siri AI, are subject to daily usage limits.
- Siri AI remains unavailable in the EU on iOS, iPadOS and watchOS.
Five languages arrive with Apple’s 27.2 updates
The releases cover iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, macOS 27.2, watchOS 27.2 and visionOS 27.2. Apple says Siri AI runs on an Apple Intelligence-enabled device set to a supported language, so installing an update alone does not meet its stated requirements. The assistant is still in beta on each of those operating systems, and Apple warns that some features may vary by region or language.
The language change concerns Siri AI specifically, rather than every feature in Apple Intelligence, the wider collection of AI features built into Apple devices. Apple lists more languages for Apple Intelligence than for Siri AI, including German, Italian and Swedish. That distinction matters when a device’s language setting offers access to other AI features but the new assistant is available in only the six languages Apple names.
Siri AI began as an English-language beta in September, Gadget Hacks reported. iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2 and macOS 27.2 reached release-candidate status on 19 October, when Apple expected to distribute those builds publicly unless final testing required a change. An earlier AI Affairs report covered Apple’s plan for Korean-language Siri AI in October.
The iPhone update also changes other parts of the software. Apple TV gains individual profiles, while Apple Books gets revised reading controls and progress indicators, The Apple Post reported. Those changes arrive in the same iOS release, but they are separate from the expansion of Siri AI.
Siri AI uses personal context and Gemini
Apple says the assistant can draw on messages, emails and photos to find information relevant to a request. It also describes onscreen awareness, which lets Siri AI respond to something displayed on the device, and actions across apps, such as drafting an email or editing and sharing photos. These are capabilities Apple describes for the assistant, rather than new tasks introduced individually by the five language additions.
The distinction between personal context and general knowledge is practical. A question about an item in an email requires the assistant to find the relevant material among information held on the device or associated with its owner. A question about something on the screen instead starts with what is visible at that moment. Apple says Siri AI can also use broader knowledge for up-to-date answers, so its description covers several different routes from a request to a response.
Finding a detail in messages could become a request to Siri rather than a manual search, if the personal-context function works as Apple describes. Drafting an email could likewise begin with a request, while editing and sharing photos could be handled through actions Apple says the assistant can perform. The language expansion would make those possibilities available to more people with eligible devices, subject to the regional and feature restrictions Apple sets out.
Google’s Gemini powers Siri AI, Korea JoongAng Daily reported. The publication also reported Apple’s description of a security framework intended to delete data immediately after processing requests that require an AI workload. For companies building services used alongside Siri AI, the expansion adds supported languages to the assistant’s app actions, while Apple’s account of which actions are available remains the basis for that expectation.
EU restrictions and Apple’s daily usage limits
Apple says Siri AI is currently unavailable in the EU on iOS, iPadOS and watchOS, and that it is working with the EU to find a way forward. The company also excludes users under 13. These conditions apply alongside the device and language requirements, so the addition of French, Portuguese and Spanish does not by itself make the assistant available on every eligible mobile device in Europe.
Some Apple Intelligence features that depend on server-side models are subject to daily usage limits, Apple says, including Siri AI, intelligent photo-editing tools and Image Playground. A server-side model handles a request using computing systems beyond the device, rather than doing all the processing on the device itself. Apple says limits can differ according to the feature, the complexity of a request, system demand and its policies, and that expanded access will be available for a fee in the future.
Apple plans to add Chinese (traditional), Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese to Siri AI by the end of 2026. Those languages already appear on Apple’s broader list of settings supported by Apple Intelligence, but its 26 October availability notice places their Siri AI support later in the year.
