Apple Intelligence now supports Live Translation in Messages, FaceTime, and calls, allowing real-time multilingual communication. Visual Intelligence features are enhanced with screenshot support, deeper app integration, and the ability to ask questions with ChatGPT. Image Playground and Genmoji receive ChatGPT-powered enhancements for more expressive content creation. Apple Intelligence Actions are now integrated into Shortcuts, enabling automation with AI. A new Workout Buddy feature is introduced for Apple Watch. Additionally, a Foundation Models Framework is made available for developers to build on Apple Intelligence’s on-device large language model.
For the first time, developers can directly access Apple Intelligence’s on-device large language model to create private, fast, and offline-capable intelligent experiences within their apps. This move is expected to spark a wave of new AI-powered app features that respect user privacy
Since its initial launch in 2024, Apple Intelligence has expanded to support multiple languages including Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese, and is available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. The latest updates continue broadening device and language support.
Apple Intelligence is deeply integrated into iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and visionOS 26, bringing a more expressive design and intelligent features system-wide, including improvements in Phone, Messages, CarPlay, Apple Music, Maps, Wallet, and the new Apple Games app.
Apple is evolving Siri into a more natural, context-aware assistant that can understand screen content and provide personalized responses. Apple Intelligence 2.0 plans to integrate third-party AI models such as Google’s Gemini and others like Perplexity, expanding AI capabilities beyond Apple’s own models.
As a result, Apple Intelligence 2.0 in 2025 brings powerful AI features like live translation, enhanced visual intelligence, and developer access to on-device LLMs, alongside expanded language/device support and deeper system integration, all while emphasizing privacy and offline functionality. Siri is becoming more intelligent and integrated, and Apple is opening the platform to third-party AI models, signaling a major evolution in its AI ecosystem