Icouldn't ask for better timing. My Spanish-speaking mother-in-law was coming to visit the day Apple released live language translation features on AirPods .

It works on the new AirPods Pro 3 , which hits stores Friday, along with last year's AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 -- and the user also needs to have it paired to an iPhone running the latest iOS 26 software with Apple Intelligence.

My mother-in-law is bilingual and speaks English perfectly, but Spanish is her preferred language. She'll often jump into Spanish first when speaking to my husband -- and that meant this was my big moment! I would be in the dark no longer! With a press of the AirPod stems, Siri was, in real time, filling me in on everything they said.

Well, almost everything. Depending on how clearly words are

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