Craig Federighi at Apple WWDC 2025.

Apple Intelligence is now open on device to third-party developers

Apple announced enhanced features for Apple Intelligence, opening AI features to third-party apps to use on your device. And it enables live translation now too.

It has expanded the number of languages and it is building it into more features across Apple Watch, iPad, iPhone, Mac and more. It is opening access to on-device foundtaion models to any app that needs to use AI, even when you are offline.

It has had writing tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, clean up in photos, visual intelligence, natural language search in photos, and private cloud compute in the past. It has made Siri more helpful and natural.

Today, Apple announced live translation using Apple Intelligence, delivering a message in a preferred language.

Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi made the announcement at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.