Enhance your app’s multilingual experience
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Enhance Your App’s Multilingual Experience
At WWDC 2025, Apple introduced several new features to enhance the multilingual experience in apps, particularly with the release of iOS 26. Here are some key highlights from the session titled "Enhance your app’s multilingual experience":
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Language Discovery: This feature automatically detects preferred languages, making apps feel more personal and natural. It simplifies the process for users who previously had to manually select languages in the Settings app. Watch the session on Language Discovery.
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Alternate Calendars: Apps can now support alternate calendars, allowing UI elements like days and months to be displayed in the user's preferred language. This feature enhances personalization and cultural relevance. Learn more about Alternate Calendars.
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Bidirectional Text Support: With the introduction of natural selection support on iOS and iPadOS, apps can now handle bidirectional text more seamlessly, catering to a wider range of languages and scripts. Explore Bidirectional Text Support.
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Locale PreferredLocales API: This new API provides a more comprehensive way to handle user language preferences by returning an array of locales, which includes both language and region information. This is an improvement over the previous locale preferred languages API.
These features are designed to make apps more accessible and user-friendly for a global audience, allowing developers to create more inclusive and culturally aware applications. For more details, you can watch the full session on Enhance your app’s multilingual experience.
Enhance your app’s multilingual experience
Create a seamless experience for anyone who uses multiple languages. Learn how Language Discovery allows you to optimize your app using a person’s preferred languages. Explore advances in support for right-to-left languages, including Natural Selection for selecting multiple ranges in bidirectional text. We’ll also cover best practices for supporting multilingual scenarios in your app.
Build multilingual-ready apps
Ensure your app works properly and effectively for multilingual users. Learn best practices for text input, display, search, and formatting. Get details on typing in multiple languages without switching between keyboards. And find out how the latest advances in the String Catalog can make localization even easier.
Meet the Translation API
Discover how you can translate text across different languages in your app using the new Translation framework. We’ll show you how to quickly display translations in the system UI, and how to translate larger batches of text for your app’s UI.