{"id":130990,"date":"2025-09-11T23:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/130990\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:33:06","slug":"apple-blocks-translation-airpods-in-eu-over-regulatory-concerns-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/130990\/","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":2,"featured_media":130991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1109,41836,59,146,467,29672,1352,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-130990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-digital","tag-digital-markets-act","tag-gb","tag-intelligence","tag-markets","tag-regulatory","tag-services","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}