Fact · Dictation on phones and tablets
With Apple Intelligence in iOS 27, iPhone dictation uses an on-device model to improve spelling, punctuation and capitalization, in English on iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air or later.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“With Apple Intelligence in iOS 27, dictation uses an on-device model to improve spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. Available in English on iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, or later.”
Dictate text on iPhone, Apple Inc., 2026, Dictate text on iPhone, note on Apple Intelligence.
Open the original- What it measures
- It is one example of dictation tools adding a language model after recognition to clean up the text.
- What it does not show
- Limited to English and recent iPhone models at the time of writing.
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