This year at WWDC25, Apple acknowledged that its AI-powered Siri overhaul could have been smoother. But they also showed the work they have been putting into developing better models and features across their ecosystem.
Here’s every new Apple Intelligence feature announced this year.
Supported languages
This year, Apple Intelligence is expanding its availability to almost 20 languages, beyond the very limited initial rollout. Here is the full list:
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Danish
Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Benchmarks on Apple’s Tech Report for Apple Intelligence. PFIGSCJK refers to the languages
Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, and Korean.
Apple has made significant updates to its on-device and cloud models, making them faster and smarter than their previous versions.
Its local model has approximately 3 billion parameters, and its performance is equal to or higher than that of Alibaba and Google’s similarly sized models.
As for its cloud-based model, Apple hasn’t detailed its size, and has acknowledged that its performance is lower than (although close to) models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Mata’s LLaMA 4 Scout, and Alibaba’s Qwen-3-235B.
In a technical report we recently covered here, Apple offers more detail on its new models, from data sourcing to some interesting architecture decisions.
Foundation Models Framework
Starting this year, developers will be able to tap into Apple’s local model to offer features such as text summarization and transcription without having to rely on third-party solutions, whether they’re API, cloud-based, or embedded in the app.
Here are a few practical examples quoted by Craig Federighi during the WWDC25 keynote:
“For example, if you’re getting ready for an exam, an app like Kahoot! can create a personalized quiz from your notes to make studying more engaging. And because it uses on-device models, this happens without cloud API costs. Or perhaps you’re camping off-grid, poring over the hikes you downloaded to AllTrails. Just describe what you’re in the mood for, and AllTrails can use our on-device models to suggest the best option.
For now, developers won’t have access to Apple’s cloud-based model, but there is a good chance this could be the case in the future.
Transcription
One of the tentpole capabilities of Apple’s local model is transcription, which apps will be able to use in a variety of ways. From video conferencing platforms to podcast players, transcriptions can enhance accessibility, searchability, and overall user experience.
Early testing has shown that Apple’s transcription model has solid performance, with faster processing times than OpenAI’s Whisper in many cases. Accuracy is generally strong, but the downside is that it only supports English at launch, which may limit its appeal for international users.
Live Translation
This is one of the coolest and most useful Apple Intelligence-based features of the year, which will allow for real-time cross-language conversations via:
Messages: Automatically translate incoming texts, including group messages. Translation can be automatically suggested when you receive a text in another language. Type your response in your preferred language, and it’s translated when it’s delivered.
FaceTime: Turn on Live Translation to follow along with live translated captions that appear fluidly on your screen, while you can continue to hear your friend or family member’s voice.
Phone: Translate a phone call you make or receive. You will automatically hear the call recipient’s words translated and spoken out loud in real time. You can also follow along with a transcription when you take a call on speaker.
It is worth noting that these features (which are powered by the on-device model, which is pretty cool) will initially be available in select countries and languages on compatible devices. For the full details, click here.
Voicemail summaries
Voicemail is getting a sprinkle of Apple Intelligence with Voicemail summaries, which do pretty much what it says on the label: Apple will auto-generate a short summary of each message, which will appear in line with your missed calls.
This way, you can quickly triage missed calls and decide which ones you should actually respond to.
Messages
Message has a new Polls feature, which will rely on Apple Intelligence to auto-suggest polls based on the context of the conversation.
Apple is also enhancing search in Messages, with support for more natural language. That means even if you don’t remember the exact wording, it’ll be easier to find what you’re looking for in past conversations.
Genmoji
Up until now, Genmoji creation was limited to text prompts. Now, you can combine two different emoji to create an entirely new one, or mix emoji with text descriptions.
When creating Genmoji based on your contacts, or on faces in your Photo Library, you can make adjustments to their appearance, including facial expressions, hairstyles, and facial hair.
Image Playground
This year’s biggest addition to Image Playground is the integration with ChatGPT. You can choose from several ChatGPT presets, such as Oil or Watercolor, or describe what you want and let OpenAI’s model do the rest.
You can now also create Genmoji directly within Image Playground, using it as a style option. This includes the same personalization for contacts and faces from above.
Shortcuts
With Apple Intelligence coming to Shortcuts, automations are about to get a pretty big upgrade. You’ll be able to build workflows that take advantage of features like Writing Tools to summarize text, or even generate images on the fly using Image Playground.
And with the new Use Model action, you can go a step further, tapping directly into Apple’s on-device and server-based models, or even ChatGPT, to bring more advanced reasoning and language understanding into your shortcut logic.
Reminders
Apple is making it easier to share information with Reminders and letting Apple Intelligence do the rest. You can now share text from emails, websites, or notes straight to reminders, and it will automatically suggest tasks or even a grocery list out of a screenshot of a recipe.
Apple Intelligence can now also auto-categorize your reminders, with sections like “Work” and “Errands”, making it easier to manage them in bulk, or keep things better organized.
Visual intelligence
While most attention tends to go to Apple Intelligence’s text capabilities, its visual capabilities were enhanced, too.
Previously, Visual intelligence let you learn more about your surroundings. For instance, you could point the camera at a cafe, and it would surface ratings and other relevant information.
Now, you can look up and take actions based on screenshots as well. The feature even integrates with third-party apps, so if you have apps like Google or Etsy installed, you’ll be able to look up images (or just specific objects within that image) right from a screenshot.
Visual intelligence also makes smart, context-aware suggestions. So if you take a screenshot of an event invite, it will auto-suggest adding that event to your calendar, complete with title, time, and location already filled in.
Wallet order tracking
As Apple explains it:
“With Apple Intelligence, Wallet can now identify and summarize order tracking details beyond your Apple Pay orders. It will find emails sent by either merchants or delivery carriers and conveniently pull together your order details, order progress notifications, and more. All in one place, right in Wallet.”
Workout buddy
One of the only Apple Intellience-based features coming to watchOS 26 this year is also one of the more interesting ones.
Now, provided you take your iPhone alongside your Apple Watch when you run, Apple Intelligence will compare your current run with your historical fitness and exercise data to provide relevant information and incentive during the workout session.
From encouraging messages when you start your run, to milestone and checkpoint updates along the way, a text-to-speech model with voice data from an Apple Fitness+ trainer will let you know how well you’re doing, and where you can pick up to do even better until the finish line.
What Apple Intelligence features are you most excited about? Which features are you still missing? Let us know in the comments.
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