Apple Expands Language Support in iOS 27, Adds 9 New Languages to Translate
Apple is expanding its language support across iOS 27, with the upcoming update adding nine new languages to Apple Translate and enhancing keyboard capabilities for multilingual users, according to internal documentation reviewed by The Verifier.
Apple Translate Gains 9 New Languages in iOS 27
Apple Translate will support 30 languages and accents when iOS 27 launches, up from 21 in the current version. The update introduces Hebrew, Danish, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish (US), and others, as outlined in the iOS 27 beta 3 release notes.
The full list of supported languages includes:
- Arabic
- Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional)
- Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)
- Chinese (Mandarin, Traditional)
- Danish
- Dutch
- English (UK)
- English (US)
- French (France)
- German (Germany)
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Russian
- Spanish (Mexico)
- Spanish (Spain)
- Spanish (US)
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
Keyboard Improvements Target Multilingual Users
iOS 27 also introduces keyboard enhancements for languages like Afrikaans, Guarani, Zulu, and several Indigenous languages, as highlighted during Apple’s WWDC26 keynote.
Context: Apple’s Ongoing Language Expansion
Apple has steadily expanded language support over the past year.