The next two updates to iOS 26 will be very important for Apple Intelligence.
In 2024, Apple announced its suite of AI features for the iPhone: Apple Intelligence. However, Apple Intelligence still remains incomplete — particularly a revamped Siri digital assistant — and it’s not even made its way to China yet, which is a major market for the company. That may be about to finally change.
Apple insider Mark Gurman, in his newsletter Power On, reveals that he’s been told that the next two iOS 26 updates will be monumental for the Chinese region. iOS 26.2 and iOS 26.3 will reportedly see Apple bring formal support for its AI services to the country. In preparation for this, perhaps, iOS 26.1 has just brought support for traditional Chinese and Mandarin Chinese.
Consumers in China had to use their iPhone 16 without Apple Intelligence, despite it being the most marketed feature of those phones.
