Shanghai's cyberspace regulator said on November 9 that Apple Intelligence has been registered for use on tablets and laptops in China, extending the generative AI service's clearance beyond iPhones ahead of its December rollout.
Apple's artificial intelligence service cleared another regulatory hurdle in China on Monday. Shanghai's cyberspace regulator said Apple Intelligence has been registered for use on tablets and laptops in the country, widening a filing that until now covered only iPhones.
China requires companies to register large language models and generative AI services before offering them to the public. Apple won approval to roll out Apple Intelligence on iPhones in July. The company said in an October statement that the first features for supported iPhones would enter developer testing on November 4, with a public rollout planned for December through iOS 27.3. The China version is built on Apple's own generative models, with Alibaba's Qwen supporting selected experiences.
The expanded filing covers the same service on more devices. It does not mean the features are already available on iPads or Macs — Apple has not said when tablet and laptop users in China will get them.
Reuters, citing the Shanghai regulator, reports the expanded registration, and the regulator's own notice lists iPhone, iPad and Mac as covered device categories. The filing extends the registered scope; the timing of availability on the new devices remains unannounced. One report described Apple as the only foreign company to hold this kind of clearance; that claim rests on a single outlet and is not repeated here as fact.
For Apple, the registration keeps its China AI rollout on track for the December software release, and it means the service can eventually reach the full range of its devices in its second-largest market. The date to watch is the iOS 27.3 rollout, and whether iPad and Mac availability follows in the same release or comes later.