Apple Intelligence takes on language barriers in messages and phone calls.

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Apple announced at WWDC 2025 that it’s debuting live translation Apple Intelligence features that allow you to translate between languages in Messages, FaceTime, and phone calls.

For a phone call, that’ll mean live translation aloud as you talk, and with FaceTime, it means live captions displayed on the screen. It’s all powered via Apple-built models that run on-device.

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Apple Intelligence takes on language barriers in messages and phone calls.

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