Such promises don’t always come true, but we’ve already had our first glimpse of the new languages. As spotted by MacRumors, they’re present in the iOS 27.2 beta, well in advance of the self-imposed deadline.
There’s no hard and fast rule covering the time it takes an iOS update to move from beta to public release, but it shouldn’t be too much of a challenge for Apple to roll out iOS 27.2 within the next 44 days. So the inclusion of the new languages offers a clue about when the update will appear. The iPhone Duo, which will be running iOS 27.1 at launch, launches on October 23, another possible clue to the timing.
Apple hasn’t offered any comment on when further languages will be added to Siri AI. But it’s likely that Mandarin and Cantonese aren’t a high priority at the moment, because Siri AI isn’t launching in mainland China, at least for the time being, for legal/regulatory reasons.
