Google Translate app for iOS has been up to date with a brand new characteristic. Following the replace, it may be set because the default app for all translation requests on eligible iPhone and iPad fashions. Apple first launched the power to set default apps for media playback, navigation, and translation on iPhone with the iOS 18.4 replace. Though the corporate’s proprietary Translate app was amongst solely a handful of choices for setting a default translation app until now, Google Translate has now additionally been added instead.

Default Translation App on iPhone

Google Translate’s app web page on the iOS App Retailer states that it may be set because the default translation app on iPhone and iPad fashions operating iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 or later firmware, respectively. Customers might want to replace the app to the most recent 9.8.011 model to achieve entry to this performance.

To set it up:

1. Open Settings in your iPhone
2. Choose Apps > Default Apps and faucet on Translation
3. Select Google Translate from the offered choices

Devices 360 employees can verify that Google Translate seems as an possibility beneath the default apps part after updating the app.

Google Translate lets customers translate bilingual conversations between as much as 249 languages. It helps textual content translation between languages by typing, in addition to spoken phrases or phrases by dictation. As per Google, it may be used even when there is no such thing as a web connection by downloading language packs. The app additionally gives the power to attract textual content characters as a substitute of typing, transcription in actual time, save translated phrases and phrases for future reference, and translate textual content in photographs or through the digicam viewfinder.

Notably, Apple, with the iOS 18.2 replace in November 2024, introduced a new unified section within the Settings app on iOS. It permits customers to decide on the default app for use when a hyperlink or clicked or a particular characteristic is used. As of now, customers can choose a default app for electronic mail, messaging, calling, name filtering, browser, translation, password and codes, and keyboards on their iPhone.