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1 / 3Apple Intelligence goes live for developers in China, running on Alibaba's Qwen×

Live for developers

The first iOS 27.3 beta arrived Tuesday, and developers in mainland China can now switch on Live Translation, Writing Tools, Visual Intelligence, Genmoji, Clean Up, mail and notification summaries, and a typed Siri that relays requests to Qwen.

The filter

Bloomberg reports an Alibaba-powered content filter sits in the system.

Still to come

Siri AI, the Siri app and the newer iOS 27 features are all excluded. A public release is expected in December.

Sources and the full story

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Apple Intelligence goes live for developers in China, running on Alibaba's Qwen

The first iOS 27.3 beta arrived Tuesday, and developers in mainland China can now switch on Live Translation, Writing Tools, Visual Intelligence, Genmoji, Clean Up, mail and notification summaries, and a typed Siri that relays requests to Qwen. Bloomberg reports an Alibaba-powered content filter sits in the system. Siri AI, the Siri app and the newer iOS 27 features are all excluded. A public release is expected in December. SourcesBB

Sources

• BiOS 27.3 beta brings Apple Intelligence to China (MacRumors)macrumors.com
• BApple releases iOS 27.3 beta (Bloomberg, not opened; from Techmeme's summary)bloomberg.com

This story ran in the Afternoon Brief of November 3rd 2026.