Overview
- Developers in the Apple Developer Program can test the EU-adjusted Live Translation starting November 4, with a public beta to follow.
- EU availability will arrive via an iOS update in December, and Apple does not expect a separate AirPods firmware update.
- To comply with the DMA, Apple reworked iPhone audio-routing interfaces so third-party apps and devices can handle multiple audio paths in the same way.
- The feature requires iPhones that support Apple Intelligence and H2‑chip AirPods (AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Pro 2, AirPods 4), while AirPods Max are unsupported and Powerbeats Pro 2 are excluded.
- Translations run entirely on the paired iPhone after a one-time language model download, with live transcripts and integration into FaceTime, Phone and Messages, and initial support for Chinese, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.