Remember when Apple blame EU technological rules – and more precisely the Digital market act – To justify the fact that Apple Intelligence would not be available in the European Union? Perhaps it was only an attempt to return EU users against their regulators while Apple Intelligence arrived at the EU in April 2025 as well as local language support.
Apple has just released iOS 18.1 Monday With the first set of intelligent functions to come on recent iPhone, iPad and Mac models. However, when Apple revealed Apple Intelligence During its developer conference in June, the company said it would be a slow deployment with new AI features limited to American English at the start.
And this is still the case today. Although Apple Intelligence is technically out of the beta version, you must define your iPhone or Mac on us English. On the iPhone, Apple also checks if your Apple account is associated with a European address. If this is the case, you cannot activate Apple’s intelligence at all on your iPhone, even if you define your iPhone in English.
On the Mac, this is another story, because European users can try the features of Apple Intelligence from Monday. If you have a Mac with a M1 chip or later, you can change the language and activate Apple Intelligence immediately. The observers assumed that it was because Apple was appointed as a guardian of the DMA compared to iOS, iPados, the App Store and Safari; MacOS was not part of this list.
The company had previously announced that support for more languages was on the wayStarting with the English support located for other countries in December 2024. Apple plans to add a dozen languages throughout 2025, notably French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
However, Apple Intelligence will also be available on the EU iPhone in a few months. “In April, Apple Intelligence’s features will start to move to iPhone and iPad users in the EU. This will include many of the fundamental characteristics of Apple Intelligence, in particular writing tools, Genmoji, an Siri redrawn with a richer language understanding, a chatgpt integration, and even more, “wrote Apple in A press release.
From this list, it turns out that all the features of Apple Intelligence arrive at the EU, except … Notification summaries? We contacted Apple for more details on what does not happen to the EU and an Apple spokesperson sent us the following declaration:
“We are delighted that iPhone and iPad customers in the EU have access to many basic features of Apple Intelligence. Features such as writing tools, Genmoji, a rethought Siri with a richer language understanding, chatgpt integration and many other capacities will help users to do even more with their devices. Since the announcement of Apple Intelligence, we have been working to find a path to provide as many features as possible in the EU in a way that complies with DMA while maintaining user confidentiality and safety, and to determine what the engineering of additional products required to do so. We look forward to providing Apple Intelligence features to EU users in future software updates. »»
It seems that it will be difficult to say the differences. It brings us to this simple question: what was the problem with the DMA?