{"id":219175,"date":"2025-09-11T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219175\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:33:10","slug":"apple-blocks-translation-airpods-in-eu-over-regulatory-concerns-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219175\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple blocks translation AirPods in EU over regulatory concerns \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLive translation with AirPods is not available if you are in the EU and your Apple account country or region is also in the EU,\u201d an Apple support page <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/121115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is blocking the functionality due to its interpretation of its obligations under the EU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/bills\/609150\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Digital Markets Act<\/a>, specifically a European Commission decision from March. The decision states that the iPhone maker is required to make certain functions interoperable with competitor devices.<\/p>\n<p>Apple executives have previously threatened to block the rollout of services like Apple Intelligence due to its European regulatory obligations.<\/p>\n<p>The languages currently supported for live translation through AirPods are English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish, with Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese to follow by the end of the year. <\/p>\n<p>POLITICO approached the European Commission with a request for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLive translation with AirPods is not available if you are in the EU and your Apple account country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8297,94277,3062,135,46148,5677,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-219175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-digital","9":"tag-digital-markets-act","10":"tag-intelligence","11":"tag-markets","12":"tag-regulatory","13":"tag-services","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115187810597666979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}