Late to the party: Apple Intelligence coming to iPhones in Germany in April 2025
Apple plans to release its AI on iPhones and iPads within the EU next year. German will then apparently also be supported.
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Apple has presented a more concrete roadmap for Apple Intelligence in the EU: In Germany and other EU member states, Apple will unlock AI features on iPhones and iPads in April 2025, the company announced on Monday.
"Functions such as writing tools, Genmoji, a redesigned Siri with improved speech understanding, integration of ChatGPT", Apple has promised for the EU launch. More in-depth innovations for Siri may have to wait even longer. The EU launch of the AI functions will also take place gradually.
Apparently, significantly expanded language support is also planned in parallel, including German, French and Italian. These new features are likely to be part of iOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4. For now, Apple Intelligence and the new Siri system will use English as the language.
Apple AI in line with the new EU rules
Apple has "sought a way to deliver as many of the new features as possible in the EU – in compliance with the DMA and while maintaining data privacy and security", the company said. It is pleased "that EU iPhone and iPad customers will have access to many of the key features of Apple Intelligence". Apple originally postponed the introduction, citing "regulatory uncertainties" due to the new EU rules for gatekeepers (Digital Markets Act - DMA). However, it remains unclear what has actually changed. Support for German in Apple Intelligence was obviously not scheduled for 2024 anyway.
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With Apple Intelligence, the company is adding large AI models to its operating systems. The first functions are available with iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 from Monday, with more to follow in December with iOS 18.2 and macOS 15.2 and beyond.
Apple Intelligence also partly in the cloud
The language models run partly locally on the devices and partly in a new Apple cloud. Here, the company promises to work particularly data-efficiently and not to store and reuse user requests. Since the end of last week, security researchers have had the option of searching for security vulnerabilities in Apple's "Private Cloud Compute" in a virtual environment.
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