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iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 expand language support for Dictionary, QuickType Keyboard, more

Apple today updated its iOS and iPadOS 27 Feature Availability page, confirming that more than 30 new languages and language variants are now supported across features such as Dictionary: Thesaurus, Activate with Siri, and Visual Look Up. Here’s what’s new.

Language support extended in iOS and iPadOS 27

Apple has a lengthy support page where it breaks down language and territory support for nearly 200 iOS and iPadOS features, including everything from Accessibility and Apple Pencil features to Calendar and Spotlight Suggestions.

Today, the company updated the page to reflect the dozens of languages and language variants added with iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. The additions span Dictionary definitions and thesaurus entries; QuickType Keyboard features such as language support, autocorrection, predictive typing, multilingual typing, and QuickPath; Siri wake-word support; and Visual Look Up.

Here are the new supported languages for the following features:

Dictionary: Definition

  • English (Australia)
  • English (Canada)

Dictionary: Thesaurus

  • English (Australia)
  • English (Canada)

QuickType Keyboard: Language Support

  • Afrikaans
  • Basque
  • Blackfoot
  • Comanche
  • English (Philippines)
  • Esperanto
  • Galician
  • Guadeloupean Creole
  • Guarani
  • Kaingang
  • Kalaallisut
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Kiowa
  • Luxembourgish
  • Malagasy
  • Martinican Creole
  • Moose Cree
  • Nheengatu
  • Northern East Cree
  • Plains Cree
  • Romansh
  • Rundi
  • Sakha
  • Salish
  • Southern East Cree
  • Swampy Cree
  • Tagalog (Baybayin)
  • Tsuut’ina
  • Tuvan
  • Woods Cree
  • Xhosa
  • Zulu

QuickType Keyboard: Autocorrection

  • English (Philippines)
  • Punjabi (Transliteration) QuickType Keyboard: Predictive Typing
  • English (Philippines)

Quicktype Keyboard: Predictive Typing: Inline Predictions

  • English (Philippines)

QuickType Keyboard: Multilingual Typing

  • English (Philippines) QuickType Keyboard: QuickPath
  • English (Philippines)

Siri: Activate with Siri

  • French (France)
  • German (Germany)

Visual Look Up

  • Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
  • Chinese, Traditional (Hong Kong)
  • Chinese, Traditional (Taiwan)
  • Dutch (Netherlands)
  • Korean
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Thai
  • Turkish

You can check out Apple’s full iOS and iPadOS 27 Feature Availability page here.

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Marcus Mendes is a Brazilian tech podcaster and journalist who has been closely following Apple since the mid-2000s.

He began covering Apple news in Brazilian media in 2012 and later broadened his focus to the wider tech industry, hosting a daily podcast for seven years.