iOS 14: Apple's Built-In iPhone Translate App That Works With 11 Languages

Apple has introduced a new Translate app to iOS 14, which is designed to deliver translations from one language to another, as the name implies. There are some helpful features of the Translate app that are useful both when learning a new language and when trying to talk to someone who speaks a different language.


This guide walks through all the features and how to use them in the Translate app.

Design

The Translate app has a simple , easy-to-use interface that allows you to pick languages from and to the top to be translated, and options to either type (or paste) text or speak it aloud after tapping the option of the microphone.


With the original phrase in black and the translation shown in blue, translations are shown in large text. When the play button is tapped, the iPhone can say translations out loud so that you can get the right pronunciation or play the translation for someone who speaks a different language.

Languages

You can translate from and to Arabic, Chinese mainland, English (US and UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese , Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish using the Translate app.


Voice Translations

You can press the microphone in the Translate app with voice translation and say a sentence out loud to get it translated into the target language. For instance, if you select English and Spanish as the languages selected and ask "Where's the bathroom?" the app will provide the correct answer: "Dónde está el baño?"



In any of the languages sponsored, you can speak and have the spoken language translated into any of the other languages. With short phrases or long sentences and speeches, the Translate app works.

Text Translations

It is possible to type text translations into the Translate app, which is helpful if you need to paste something for a translation from a website or paper. To enter code, just tap the wording of "Enter Text" in the app and it opens up into an interface where you can type or tap into something.

You can type in a single sentence or paste text into long paragraphs, complete with a spoken version that can be played so that you can hear the pronunciation, with the Translate app able to translate anything in its entirety.

Conversation Mode

Conversation Mode is a cool little feature that allows you to talk with someone who speaks another language back and forth. Only switch the iPhone to landscape mode to get to Conversation Mode.

In Talk Mode, the iPhone listens to both languages and can convert between them correctly. When you have a conversation with others, just make sure that when each individual speaks, tap the microphone button and the iPhone will translate the conversation into their language for each person.

Make sure that the setting is activated by pressing one of the language boxes at the top of the app to use conversation mode with the automatic speech detection option and scrolling down to ensure that Automatic Detection is turned on.

It can be helpful to disable it and to talk by tapping between the two microphones at the bottom of the app that appear when Automatic Detection is off if Automatic Detection is not working well. This way, you will ensure that the iPhone listens to and translates the correct language.

Note: Conversation Mode tends to be quite buggy in the iOS 14 beta and it does not always perform well, often failing to identify spoken languages. Over the beta testing phase, Apple will enhance this feature.


Attention Mode

If you tap the expand icon (two arrows facing outwards) in Conversation Mode with the iPhone in landscape, the translated phrase is displayed in Attention Mode, aka big letters that take up the display of the entire iPhone for easier reading.


The big text in this mode is helpful for showing others at a distance when you can't speak the language to get your message across. Notice that, because of the zoom, this mode is better for short phrases and sentences rather than longer text.

The translation will be spoken aloud by pressing the play button, and tapping on the conversation bubble icon will leave Attention Mode and return to Conversation Mode.

Favorites

You can save any recent translation as a favourite via the "Favorites" tab so that, when needed, you can save and repeat your most used translated phrases. Also displaying your latest translations is the Favorites tab.


Dictionary

In the Translate app, if you tap any word in any language, the dictionary feature will include examples of meaning and use, a feature that is helpful if you don't know what a word in another language means.


On-Device Translations

Translations are not done on the smartphone by default, but translations to and from that language can be done on the iPhone if you download a language pack in the Translate app for more protection.



On-device and private translations that use offline languages, with Apple having no access to the translated text. You can download offline languages by clicking one of the language boxes at the top of the Translate app, scrolling to "Offline Languages Available" and tapping the download button next to the language you want to download.

iPhone-Only Compatibility

The Translate app is planned to only work with versions of the iPhone that can run iOS 14 or later. At this time, it is not available on the iPad.

How to Re-download the Translate Software If you deleted it accidentally

You can do it from the App Store if you have mistakenly removed the Translate app from your iPhone and need to reinstall it. All you have to do is click on the App Store connexion for the Translate app and then tap Get.

More Translate App How To

  • How to Translate Text in the Translate app for Apple
  • How to save a translation in Apple's Translate App to your favourites
  • In Apple's Translate app, how to translate speech
  • How to search a translated word description in Apple's Translate App
  • IOS 14: In Translate App, how to use Conversation Mode

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