Apple’s New Live Translation Feature For Airpods Won’t Be Available In The Eu At Launch

One of nan headlining features of Apple’s caller AirPods Pro 3 was nan expertise to construe incoming audio successful existent time, but it seems nan characteristic won’t activity successful nan European Union astatine launch.

On its official page detailing nan features disposable connected iOS 26, nan institution said EU residents aliases those pinch EU Apple IDs won’t beryllium capable to usage unrecorded translation, which is powered by Apple Intelligence and will besides beryllium coming to AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2.

This is apt owed to nan EU’s stringent rules astir personification information protection, outlined successful laws specified arsenic nan GDPR and nan Digital Markets Act (DMA), arsenic good arsenic nan EU AI Act, which is presently being rolled out.

Apple had to delay nan merchandise of immoderate AI features successful nan EU owed to these regulations past year, pinch users successful nan EU getting entree to immoderate features only successful March 2025.