Apple Intelligence Is Coming to the E.U. In April ⇥ apple.com

Apple on Monday in the Irish press release for this week’s operating system updates:

Mac users in the EU can access Apple Intelligence in U.S. English with macOS Sequoia 15.1. This April, Apple Intelligence features will start to roll out to iPhone and iPad users in the EU. This will include many of the core features of Apple Intelligence, including Writing Tools, Genmoji, a redesigned Siri with richer language understanding, ChatGPT integration, and more.

This timeline coincides with additional language availability. In December, Apple will roll out support for some non-U.S. versions of English; in April, it will add other languages like French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. So there is functionally no delay in the availability of Apple Intelligence for many E.U. users — at least, not if they would like to use these features in their first language.

I would not go so far as to argue this has all been a charade designed to turn public sentiment against E.U. regulators. By cautioning users — and shareholders — back in June, Apple indicated this rollout would not entirely be on its own schedule, just as it did in September when it needed regulatory approval for sleep apnea notifications and the AirPods hearing aid feature. It is not really a problem. Besides, Apple has not meaningfully location-gated Apple Intelligence in the same way as it has, say, E.U.-specific features.

Romain Dillet, TechCrunch:

From this list, it turns out all Apple Intelligence features are coming to the EU, except … notification summaries? We’ve reached out to Apple for more details about what’s not coming to the EU and an Apple spokesperson sent us the following statement: […]

The statement is not particularly illuminating, only repeating the bullet point from the press release and saying the company is still working through DMA compliance questions. It is not even clear that notification summaries are not part of the feature set rolling out in April.

All we know right now is that Apple’s E.U. rollout of Apple Intelligence coincides with the availability of a bunch of European languages. The April language pack notably also adds support for two other English languages — Indian and Singaporean — plus Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. No word on availability in China, but Tim Cook is working on it.