Fact · Dictation on phones and tablets
14language and regional variants
Apple's watchOS 27 feature table lists 14 language and regional variants for on-device dictation on Apple Watch.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Keyboard: On-device Dictation Cantonese (Hong Kong) English (Australia) English (Canada) English (Great Britain) English (India) English (United Kingdom) English (United States) French (France) German (Germany) Japanese (Japan) Mandarin Chinese (China mainland) Spanish (Mexico) Spanish (Spain) Spanish (United States)”
watchOS 27 Feature Availability, Apple, 2026, watchOS 27 Feature Availability: Keyboard: On-device Dictation.
Open the original- What it measures
- The table is for watchOS 27. Its separate Keyboard: Dictation list is longer and covers dictation in general.
- What it does not show
- The table lists languages only. It does not name the watch models that run on-device dictation, and it does not say what happens to a session in another language.