Since iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur were introduced in June, Apple also explained that Safari it would translate web pages, like Chrome does, into these new versions of Apple's operating systems. Americans say that Safari already translates into other languages, but the truth is that no matter how much we try and change the default language to English, for now, it doesn't work.
We are aware that it is a great job to create a translator of different languages, and do it right. Apple already has this translator operating, but in an initial phase, with many limitations. Let's see in which languages and countries it already works, and the necessary system requirements.
With the new versions of Apple operating systems, the company has announced with great fanfare that its native Safari web browser is now capable of translating web pages on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Macs. What he has not explained is that at the moment he is in a quite limited initial phase. Let's see what requirements we must meet for this.
System Requirements
In order to use the web page translator built into Safari, you will need an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 14, or an iPad with iPadOS 14, or a Mac with macOS 11 Big Sur. That is, when you have at least iOS 14, iPadOS 14 o Big Sur macOS, you can use this new Safari feature.
Countries
But it does not stay here. Even if you have some of the aforementioned devices, you must live in USA or Canada. If not, nothing at all. You can always "cheat" your device, changing the language and region by going into Settings> General> Language> Region in order to use the Safari translation. But I honestly believe that it is not worth it, having other alternatives that we all know.
Supported languages
Apart from having the latest version of the operating system and living in North America, The Translator only supports with the following languages: Chinese (simplified), English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Russian.
So for now, we will forget about the automatic translations of Safari, and we will continue pulling other browsers that do it really well, such as Chrome Google and its cousin Edge from Microsoft.