Apple iOS 13 update: Siri’s Indian English and other India-centric features

Siri will also offer personalised suggestions in Apple Podcasts, Safari, and Maps with iOS 13 and detect reminders in messages and events in third-party apps. For AirPods users, Siri will read out messages and type out replies.

iOS 13 adds support for more Indian languages

Apple iOS 13 will support all 22 Indian languages. The new update brings 15 new Indian language keyboards. The list includes Assamese, Bodo, Dogri, Kashmiri (Devanagari, Arabic), Konkani (Devanagari), Manipuri (Bangla, Meetei Mayek), Maithili, Nepali, Sanskrit, Santali (Devanagari, Ol Chiki), and Sindhi (Devanagari, Arabic).

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Apple users can go to Settings> General>Keyboards>Keyboards> and then tap on Add New Keyboard. The new options for India with all the Indian languages like Bodo, Dogri, Kashmiri, Konkani, etc will show up on top for these keyboards.

Apple iOS 13 brings keyboards in all 22 Indian languages and there’s a new Hindi to English Romanised keyboard as well.

More language options when setting up iPhone

With iOS 13, the system will offer to add the relevant languages to the keyboard, dictation languages, and preferred languages when setting up the device. This should help India users who want more options when setting up their iPhone.

New Hindi-English bilingual keyboard

Apple also introduced a new romanized Hindi (Latin) and English bilingual keyboard. This comes with typing predictions. Typing predictions are also being added for the Devanagari Hindi keyboard. So you can type in English letters, and the text gets converted to Devanagari script for Hindi and you can choose that option.

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Video download optimization

In India, apps like Hotstar and Netflix will optimise when to download video content. They will download video content depending on the time of the day. Apple says this will help avoid congested networks and peak cellular data prices.

Downloads over 200Mb on cellular

Apple’s iOS 13 will finally let users download updates or apps over 200MB on cellular data. This is not India specific, but will appeal to many users here. Users will have the option to going to Settings> iTunes and App Stores> App Downloads. Here they can choose from Always Allow, Ask if over 200MB and Always Allow.

For users who don’t have access to WiFi all the time, they can now download heavy files over their mobile data, given mobile data prices have dropped and companies are offering daily packs of 1GB data per day.

New system fonts for Indic languages

With iOS 13, Apple has added four new system fonts for Gurmukhi, Kannada, Odia, and Gujarati. These will help in apps like Safari, Messages, Mail and Contacts. In addition to this Apple is adding 30 document fonts for languages like Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit, Bengali, Assamese, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Odia, and Urdu.