Apple Sets Japanese Siri AI Beta For October
Japanese-language support arrives as a beta while Apple keeps the same features off the table in the EU and China, so the rollout shape is regulatory as much as linguistic.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Apple announced that Siri AI, the headline feature of iOS 27 and its sibling operating systems, will enter beta in Japanese starting October. The feature is currently English only. Supported hardware covers iPhone 15 Pro and later, M1 iPads and iPad mini (A17 Pro), M1 Macs, and Apple Watch Series 9 and later. The new Apple Intelligence runs on a model built with Google's Gemini.
The Japanese build arrives as a beta, not a finished release, and it lands only on hardware that already meets the Apple Intelligence bar. On the Mac side that list runs to M1 and later plus MacBook Neo; on iPad, M1 and later and the iPad mini (A17 Pro); on Apple Watch, Series 9 and later, Ultra 2 and later, and SE 3 paired with a supported iPhone.
Apple is holding the same feature set back in the EU and China. The company cited the EU's Digital Markets Act for the European delay and said it is working to comply with regulatory requirements in China.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.