iOS 27 & iPadOS 27 Bring a Flood of New Languages to Core Features

Apple quietly updated its massive Feature Availability page today, and the changes are a breath of fresh air for multilingual users. With iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 rolling out, the company has added over thirty new languages – and a handful of regional variants – to a suite of built‑in features.

It’s not just a tidy checkbox update. The new support reaches deep into the system: the Dictionary now knows more words, the Thesaurus offers richer synonyms, QuickType gets smarter autocorrect and prediction, Siri can be summoned in additional tongues, and Visual Look Up finally recognises text in several more scripts.

Dictionary and Thesaurus – If you’ve ever switched your iPhone to Australian or Canadian English, you’ll notice a subtle but welcome difference. Both the definition engine and the thesaurus now include those locales, giving you locally‑flavoured results that feel more natural.

QuickType Keyboard – This is where the list really opens up. Languages such as Afrikaans, Basque, Esperanto, Galician and even a handful of Indigenous languages – Blackfoot, Comanche, Guarani, Kaingang, and several Cree dialects – are now fully supported. That means proper autocorrection, predictive suggestions, multilingual typing and the swipe‑style QuickPath are all on‑board. A special shout‑out goes to Tagalog (Baybayin) and Tuvan, which join the roster for the first time.

There are a few niche entries that deserve a second glance. English (Philippines) now enjoys full QuickType treatment – autocorrect, predictive typing, inline predictions, multilingual typing and QuickPath – while Punjabi (Transliteration) gets a dedicated autocorrect model.

Siri activation expands too. Users can now wake Siri with the usual “Hey Siri” command in French (France) and German (Germany), a small but meaningful step toward broader voice assistant accessibility.

Visual Look Up – The visual recogniser, which can identify landmarks, plants and text, now supports additional languages for on‑screen text detection, including Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong & Taiwan), Dutch, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Thai, Turkish and a few more.

All of these additions are documented on Apple’s iOS and iPadOS 27 Feature Availability page, which breaks down support by feature, language and territory. It’s a dense table, but the takeaway is clear: Apple is putting more effort into linguistic diversity, and everyday interactions – from typing a quick note to asking Siri for directions – should feel a little more native for many more people around the globe.

So whether you’re a multilingual power user, a developer building language‑aware apps, or simply someone who prefers typing in your mother tongue, the latest OS updates give you a richer, more inclusive experience out of the box.