Fix Apple Intelligence Stuck Downloading

Here is how I fix:

1.remove and restore all data on my iphone

2.change region and language to US/UK, turn on apple intelligence in settings->apple intelligence&siri

3.change the language of siri to what you set in 2 , then wait a few second, if there isn't appear the percentage of downloading, do step 2&3 again.

4.wait until downloading compete.

5.if during downloading, the percentage disapear, what you can do is:

i) keep waiting until is appear again

ii) do step 2&3 again

ii) just ignore

iii) hold the power button to check if the download is compete

The key is to turn off Apple intelligence. Set your iPhones region (settings, general) to another language, I picked United Kingdom. Go to Apple intelligence turn back on and power down your phone. When you reboot you should have apple intelligence. Do the same process above but switch back to United States and it should stick. I had to do this a couple times before it worked. Seemed the key was to power cycle the phone

Never mind. I FIGURED OUT THAT OTHERS ARE CORRECT. Change language to UK under Apple AI, and that should fix download issue. Mine is currently downloading. You need to go under Apple AI, and scroll down a bit. The option to change language is a column down.

No need to reset, change language or anything crazy. Simply put IPhone on a charger, power cycle (turn off the IPhone completly), reboot the phone, go to settings and AI option will show. Fixed mine within less than 5 minutes.

For me I was. But I turned on airplane mode and turned it off and reconnected and instantly the “downloading” text below the Apple Intelligence button stopped saying it was downloading. Then it worked immediately after

I Fixed mine that was stuck on downloading by disabling mobile data and it instantly updated on my WiFi network.

playground arrived first and after a few minutes intelligence picture worked, enabled mobile data again after it updated.

I think it gets confused to which network to use. Hope this helps everyone.

I Fixed mine that was stuck on downloading by disabling mobile data and it instantly updated on my WiFi network.

playground arrived first and after a few minutes intelligence picture worked, enabled mobile data again after it updated.

I think it gets confused to which network to use. Hope this helps everyone.

I pre ordered my iPhone 17 Pro and got it on release day delivered, made me very happy. I transferred my files from 16Pro phone to phone and everything seem to be fine at first, then I realized the Apple Intelligence was stuck on 99% . I tried changing the language and had the same issue with every other language getting stuck at 99%, did reset all setting , hard reset , toggle airplane mode , turn off cell data . I was on high speed WiFi connection and nothing worked, I called Apple and they tried to help me by doing a hard reset and it did not work, they gave me another number to call. I decided to re install from iCloud and right during the installation I got the option to set up Apple Intelligence right from the beginning. Everything worked fine after the installation was complete, Apple Intelligence , Visual Intelligence and Playground .

My stalled download on new 17 IOS 26 persisted thru everything listed. Then under Settings-AI scrolled down to Extensions and ChatGPT install needed to be completed by clicking on it. AI then finished instantly!

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I Fixed mine that was stuck on downloading by disabling mobile data and it instantly updated on my WiFi network.

playground arrived first and after a few minutes intelligence picture worked, enabled mobile data again after it updated.

I think it gets confused to which network to use. Hope this helps everyone.

DO NOT RESET YOUR PHONE TO RESTORE FROM AN OLDER BACKUP!!

Simply go to your settings, turn off Apple Intelligence, Restart your phone, and the downloading part should disappear. Simply turn back on Apple Intelligence and all features are back to normal immediately. Hope this helps everyone!

had same issue, that randomly fixed when i went to settings, apple intelligence&siri, siri & dictation history and deleted it.

I fixed mine by just changing the región to Japan, language: US English and for Siri US English aswell (I don't know if this helps but I picked voice 4)

Good luck guys 🙋🏻‍♂️

I cycled power to my iPhone 16 Pro, and after rebooting the Apple Intelligence download completed in less than 5 minutes over WiFi.

FIXED: For this who have tried every common fix and still can’t get it to work. Read this. For weeks I tried everything. Every suggested region, every language, literally everything I could find online and NOTHING worked. I had the apple intelligence option available and turned on and zero luck. Restarting didn’t work. Upgrading from 18.1 to 18.2 didn’t work.

here is what worked: I backup my iPhone with the none working none downloading apple intelligence.a complete local and iCloud update while on iOS 18.2. Then I fully reset my iPhone (erased all content and settings but not pictures, songs….)

then i restore my phone back to the same crappy 18.2 that wasn’t working and voila, apple intelligence actually started to download. So if all else failed try this and with the full back up and restore you won’t lose anything