The WWDC 2025 allowed all Apple fans to discover for the first time iOS 26. The apple brand has particularly highlighted Liquid Glass, its new graphical interface while transparency. Several major update functions were also in the spotlight, including the translation live.
Thus, you can converse with a foreign interlocutor and benefit from an instant translation thanks to the AI on telephone, messages and facetime applications. Apple does not intend to stop on such a good path to break the language barrier. Live translation should also arrive at AirPodsas revealed by the last beta developers of iOS 26.
Live translation on AirPods available this year on iOS 26?
The media 9TO5MAC made an important discovery by searching the 6ᵉ beta code developers of iOS 26, which has just been released. An image shows a gesture triggered in Simultaneously supporting the two airpods stems. 9TO5MAC specifies that the visual includes text in English, Portuguese, French and German, and is associated with the translate application.
These two elements lead to believing that a new movement will activate the translation live on the AirPods on iOS 26. It is not the first time that the arrival of this function on the wireless headphones is talked about. Mark Gurman, Bloomberg journalist, Already mentioned the translation live on the AirPods last spring.
« If an English speaker hears someone speaking in Spanish, the iPhone will translate the speech and transmit it to the user’s airpods in English. The words of the English speaker will be translated into Spanish and returned by the iPhone He wrote in a newsletter.
Several questions remain unanswered, such as the need or not to have an iPhone nearby To activate the translation live on the AirPods. If so, will it take an iPhone with Apple Intelligence to take advantage of it? Airpods models compatible with this innovation are also unknown. We can expect the live translation to be available on the AirPods Pro 2 and the AirPods 4 as well as on the new expected headphones this year, the AirPods Pro 3.
Mark Gurman expects the function to be deployed on iOS 26.1 or iOS 26.2.
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