Autocomplete in 16 languages, and it follows yours.
Spanish, French, German, Hindi and twelve more. Typeahead suggests in the language you’re typing, so there’s nothing to switch.
Type, and it switches.
Automatic is the default. Start writing and the suggestions match.
A row of flags slides one place at a time through the languages Typeahead writes in: Swedish, Norwegian, Hindi, Dutch, Catalan, Portuguese, Polish, French, German, English, Danish, Russian, Spanish, Italian and Indonesian.
Start in any of 16.
Write a reply in French, an email in German, a note in Hindi.
A reply typed in French: once a dozen letters are in, a globe gives way to the French flag. Then the same in German, Spanish and Italian.
It reads your lead.
After a few words, it knows the language. Before that, it goes by the window.
A reply in French, “Merci, je vous”, gets a suggestion in French: “réponds demain.” Tab takes it.
Suggestions in kind.
The rest of your sentence arrives in French. Tab takes it.
Your language, wherever you are.
Replying in English to a message in German? The suggestion stays in English, the language you’re typing.
Jonas writes in German: “Hast du morgen Zeit für einen kurzen Anruf?” The reply, in English, “Yes, tomorrow”, gets an English suggestion: “afternoon works for me.” Tab takes it.
All sixteen, by name.
English, Español, Deutsch, हिन्दी and twelve more. Pick one, or let Automatic follow you between them.
The sixteen languages Typeahead suggests in: English, Français, Español, Deutsch, Italiano, Português, Nederlands, Svenska, Dansk, Norsk, Polski, Русский, Türkçe, Català, Indonesia, हिन्दी. A reply field shows the same everyday reply in each, with its suggestion.
The finer points.
Spelling, styles, and the app itself.
Your spelling.
American or British English, from your Mac’s region.
Locked per style.
Keep one style in Spanish, whatever you type.
Settings in 16, too.
The app itself comes in the same languages.
In detail.
The list, how Automatic picks, and keeping one language.
The sixteen.
Typeahead suggests in English, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Its own menus and settings come in the same sixteen, set separately from the language you write in. If you move between two of them every day, there’s more on autocomplete for multilingual writers.
How Automatic works.
On Automatic, the default, Typeahead goes by what you’re typing once there are about a dozen characters to go on. Before that it uses the text of the window you’re in, and failing that your Mac’s language. On a page in another language, it keeps suggesting in yours. English spelling follows your Mac’s region: American for the US, British elsewhere.
Keeping one language.
Any writing style can stay in one language, whatever you type: keep a Spanish style for one client and English everywhere else. Set it in Settings › Writing, under Suggestion Language.
The right model for it.
For languages other than English, Typeahead points you to a Gemma model, which handles them best; the lightest Qwen model is English-first. All of them run on your Mac, and the local AI page covers them. Every language works in the same Mac apps.
Common questions
Typeahead suggests in 16 languages: English, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. On Automatic, it follows the language you’re typing, so you can move between them without changing a setting.
No. Automatic is the default: it follows what you type, then the window you’re in, then your Mac’s language. Pick a language only when you want a writing style to stay in it.
Yes. On Automatic, Typeahead switches with you as you go from an English email to a French message. For a fixed split, give each writing style its own language.
English suggestions follow your Mac’s region: American spelling in the US, British spelling elsewhere. You can change any style’s wording in Settings › Writing.
Typeahead recommends a Gemma model for languages other than English, and points this out when you choose one; the lightweight Qwen model is English-first. You can also bring your own model: some customers use one trained for their language or dialect.
No. Typeahead suggests in the language you’re typing, or in the one a writing style is set to. It finishes your sentence rather than translating it, so a reply you start in Spanish carries on in Spanish.
