{"id":192382,"date":"2025-09-11T12:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/apples-new-live-translation-feature-for-airpods-wont-be-available-in-the-eu-at-launch-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:53:03","slug":"apples-new-live-translation-feature-for-airpods-wont-be-available-in-the-eu-at-launch-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/apples-new-live-translation-feature-for-airpods-wont-be-available-in-the-eu-at-launch-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s new live translation feature for AirPods won&#8217;t be available in the EU at launch | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the headlining features of Apple\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/09\/airpods-pro-3-arrive-with-heart-rate-sensing-and-live-translation-using-apple-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AirPods Pro 3<\/a> was the ability to translate incoming audio in real time, but it seems the feature won\u2019t work in the European Union at launch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On its <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ios\/feature-availability\/#apple-intelligence-live-translation-in-phone-and-facetime\" target=\"_blank\">official page<\/a> detailing the features available on iOS 26, the company said EU residents or those with EU Apple IDs won\u2019t be able to use live translation, which is powered by Apple Intelligence and will also be coming to AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is likely due to the EU\u2019s stringent rules around user data protection, outlined in laws such as the GDPR and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/05\/the-eu-ai-act-aims-to-create-a-level-playing-field-for-ai-innovation-heres-what-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU AI Act<\/a>, which is currently being rolled out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple had to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/10\/28\/apple-intelligence-is-coming-to-the-eu-in-april-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delay<\/a> the release of some AI features in the EU due to these regulations last year, with users in the EU getting access to some features <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/31\/apple-rolls-out-priority-notifications-as-apple-intelligence-expands-to-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only in March 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/11\/apples-new-live-translation-feature-for-airpods-wont-be-available-in-the-eu-at-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the headlining features of Apple\u2019s new AirPods Pro 3 was the ability to translate incoming audio in real time, but it seems the feature won\u2019t work in the European Union at launch. On its official page detailing the features available on iOS 26, the company said EU residents or those with EU Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-192382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}