Apple’s Translate app is a handy new addition that offers on iPhone 12 (aka offline) translation for eleven different languages.
It’s useful for travelers who put their iPhone 12 in Airplane Mode or disable cellular data to avoid roaming charges.
Before you travel, you can download the language you’ll need over Wi-Fi: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Portuguese, Russian or Spanish.
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Then, once you need to communicate with someone, open the app, tap the Microphone button, and have them speak.
The app will detect which language they’re speaking and transcribe the translation for you. You can then do the same to respond to the other person.
You can also manually type words into the app to see the written translation.
Outside of this app, Apple has also added translation features to Safari, though they’re still in beta and limited to the same languages.
If a website is in another language, tap the ‘AA’ button next to the website name in the browser bar.
Assuming a translation is available, you’ll see the option ‘Translate to English’ (or your default language); if that option isn’t there, that means Safari can’t translate it yet.
