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Mmm_mmm_mmm2
User level: Level 1 (17 points)

27.0.1 Voiceover isn't reading Chinese

Hello, is anyone else having issues with voiceover when reading multiple languages? I'm English, Chinese bilingual and when there's text containing English and Chinese, voiceover will read the text in Korean. I'm very confused. This issue started happening just now after the most recent update in iOS to 27.0.1. I have the language packs, voices, keyboards and primary languages set correctly on my iphone 16 pro. Please help.

Posted on Oct 9, 2026 4:42 PM

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lobsterghost1
User level: Level 10 (233,174 points)

Oct 9, 2026 4:54 PM in response to Mmm_mmm_mmm2

As iOS 27 Siri AI is still in Beta, not all languages are supported. Open this link and you'll see that Chinese is not yet supported for Voice Over, but Korean is --> iOS and iPadOS 27 - Feature Availability - Apple


This is a user to user only forum, which means we don't know when more languages will be added, but from some research, it appears the next iOS point update will bring more languages, so you'll need to wait to see if Chinese is one at that time.


Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256373415