Siri AI arrives in Spanish with macOS 27.2 and visionOS 27.2, and leaves the iPhone out in Europe
Siri AI already speaks Spanish. Apple has activated the new version of its assistant in our language, in addition to Korean, French, Japanese and Portuguese, with the updates to macOS 27.2 and visionOS 27.2. However, whoever lives in the European Union You can only use it on the Mac and the Apple Vision Probecause Siri AI is not available on iOS, iPadOS or watchOS within the EU.
The company does not give a date for the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, and simply notes in its statement that “Apple is actively collaborating with the EU to find a solution.” Outside Europe, the function arrives in beta on all these systems in version 27.2.
Where can Siri AI be used in Spanish in the EU?
As this release is somewhat complex with respect to compatibility, especially within the EU, we leave you a table that summarizes it in a simpler way:
| Device | System | In the EU | Outside the EU |
|---|---|---|---|
| iPhone | iOS 27.2 | No | Yes (beta) |
| iPad | iPadOS 27.2 | No | Yes (beta) |
| Mac | macOS 27.2 | Yes (beta) | Yes (beta) |
| Apple Vision Pro | visionOS 27.2 | Yes (beta) | Yes (beta) |
| Apple Watch | watchOS 27.2 | No | Yes (beta) |
This is the new Siri AI in Spanish
Siri AI was launched a few months ago at WWDC 26. At that time, we learned that it is based on the latest generation of Apple’s foundational models, designed in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models. These run both on the device and in the company’s cloud. A priori, that means that the execution environment belongs to the user and Apple. Google only provides the technology and therefore should not have access to any data.
This detail is important because the assistant you can search for information in messages, emails and photos, respond to what appears on the screen, consult the web and chain actions between apps, such as locating a recipe received by email and adding the ingredients to the shopping list.
On the Mac it is integrated into Spotlight and contextual menus, and a keyboard shortcut allows you to select any element on the screen to ask about it. In the Apple Vision Pro, meanwhile, you just have to look at the assistant to activate it. Plus, a new Siri app saves conversation history and syncs it to iCloud across devices.
Of course, the functions that depend on the servers have daily usage limits and Apple already warns that expanded access will be paid in the future. Another subscription in sight, we suppose.
What problem does the EU have with Apple’s AI?
That Siri AI comes to the Mac and not the iPhone suggests that the blockage in Europe has more to do with competition than with the AI itself. If we think about it coldly, Gemini operates without problem in the EU. The same goes for ChatGPT, Claude or Chinese chatbots, but they all work as third-party services. The difference, probably, is that in those cases changing assistants is much easier. For example, on Android you can change Gemini to ChatGPT as the default assistant.
Siri AI, on the other hand, proposes a very deep integration into iOS and the EU is concerned that this limits competition, as has already happened with the App Store and other Apple services. These are problems that we don’t have on Android. In fact, that would explain why it does come to the Mac. Simply put, macOS is much more open and allows you to install any chatbot and launch it easily with a keyboard shortcut.
