Apple debuted iOS 18 last month at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Since then, Siri, keyboard, and search on iOS 18 have published two developer betas in the past several weeks, with expanded support for many more languages across the lock screen.
Supported by 12 languages, the latest version allows you to customise the lock screen to display time in several numerals: Arabic, Arabic Indic, Bangla, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Meitei, Odia, Ol Chiki, and Telugu.
iOS’s keyboard receives many upgrades, including support for trilingual predictive typing throughout the system. You can easily switch between different language scripts on the left and right of the suggestion area. Furthermore, you can enter Latin text and, depending on your input, receive recommendations for all three languages without switching.
If you have many threads running across multiple languages in the Messages app, the keyboard will recall the last language you used for a given thread. English, Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu—the trilingual keyboard supports all of them. Additionally, iOS 18 includes support for a Korean and English multiscript keyboard.
iOS 18 also adds better language search, so users may search in that language for many spellings of like-sounding terms. In Hindi, they can search for “चंद्र” and “चन्द्र.” Assamese, Bangla, Devanagari, and Gujarati are among the new languages searchable here.
With iOS 18, there are some additional language-related enhancements. 
- The company has added support for Indian English live voicemail transcription.
- The iOS 18 translation app gains Hindi functionality.
- The live text function now supports Arabic.
- The grammar engines cater to Hindi and Korean languages.
- You can design contact posters using Indian languages and numbers.
- Apple will make iOS 18 public this autumn for all users. The above-described characteristics will be accessible in beta versions of iOS 18, which could be unstable, and you might not want to install them on your main device.
