Introduced on June 22, 2020, it functions as a service for translating text sentences or speech between several languages and was officially released on September 16, 2020, along with iOS 14.

The app was officially released for iPad models on September 20, 2021, along with iPadOS 15.

On June 6, 2022, Apple announced six new languages, Turkish, Indonesian, Polish, Dutch, Thai and Vietnamese.

The Vietnamese language was added to the app on July 27, 2022. iOS 16 introduced the ability to translate text through the camera, allowing users to translate text on objects or physical documents in real-time.

These are all the languages that are not yet supported on Apple Translate but have been planned for future iOS versions.