Apple adds more than 30 languages to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 keyboards, Dictionary and Visual Look Up

The company updated its iOS and iPadOS 27 Feature Availability page to reflect the additions. That support page breaks down language and territory coverage for close to 200 iOS and iPadOS features, ranging from Accessibility and Apple Pencil capabilities to Calendar and Spotlight Suggestions. The revisions list which languages each feature now handles under the two new operating system versions.

The Dictionary gains Australian and Canadian English for both definitions and thesaurus entries. Those two variants are the only Dictionary additions recorded on the page.

The largest expansion is in QuickType Keyboard language support, which picks up 32 languages and variants: 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 in the Baybayin script, Tsuut'ina, Tuvan, Woods Cree, Xhosa and Zulu. The list includes several Indigenous and regional languages from Canada, Latin America, the Arctic and Africa, alongside widely spoken national languages.

Other keyboard functions received narrower additions. Autocorrection now covers English (Philippines) and Punjabi transliteration, while predictive typing, inline predictions, multilingual typing and QuickPath each add English (Philippines).

Siri's voice activation gains French (France) and German (Germany), meaning users in those markets can summon the assistant with the wake word in their local language variant.

Visual Look Up expands to eight new languages: Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch (Netherlands), Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Thai and Turkish. The feature lets users identify objects, plants, landmarks and text from photos.

Apple did not issue a separate announcement alongside the page update, which is the company's standard method of documenting language coverage for its operating systems. The page does not indicate any differences in availability between the iPhone and iPad releases, and the additions are listed as part of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 rather than as features coming in later updates.