Fix Apple Intelligence Stuck Downloading

Mine was stuck I turned Siri on and it started working!

on a Mac mini M4

Randomly worked. I double-tapped where it said “preparing” a few times, a percentage of completion at 15% popped up and quickly finished at 100%. I was then able to activate it after being stuck for over 24 hours.

I think this may work. My friend was stuck on the same problem, but he eventually solved it by restarting (shutting down) his iPad. This will most likely work. Just be sure to wait a few minutes after the restart.

DO NOT RESET

MODERATORS: Stop deleting my post! It is relevant that I was on a previous test version and now on the public release, and THAT is what is causing this issue for some of us!

Do you really think we haven't tried that? There is a deeper issue for some of us that is different than what YOU are experiencing. For those of use that were previously on a version of 18 (which these moderators won't let me mention since it uses the B word that rhymes with Meta) who've upgraded to the official public 18.2 release, no just putting it on the charger and power cycling does not work, I've literally done that a dozen times and it does NOT work. Again, to be clear, before the 18.2 public update, I HAD Apple Intelligence working in the Test version and it went away and won't download UNLESS I switch my brand new iPhone 16 Pro to the U.K. region. Even now, after all of this time, with the latest 18.2.1 update, it's STILL broken and I have to keep it on U.K. (that's now after probably three dozen power cycles while on the charger.) So don't equate YOUR experience as how everyone is experiencing this, it's a separate issue that you are not getting.

Switching from US to UK worked for me also. Sort of. Finally getting the glow with the freeze button, but still not working with the camera control.

my Mac had the same issue, try restarting the device. Helped

I would say connect the phone to WiFi but first turn off apple intelligence and turn off your vpn and then connect to WiFi and it should finish downloading that’s what I had to do.

I got mine working by turning off the phone for about 2 minutes and then restarting it.

All this changing to another language is not necessary. To setup mine I simply put on charger and power cycled and the turn on apple intelligence appeared and it works perfectly.

It works, just change the Apple Intelligence language to something else then go back and change to your language. Thanks.

Also, try checking for updates. Apple Intelligence might not download if iDevice is running an older version of iOS system (worked for me)

Ok, strangely, that did actually work for some reason when following your steps exactly. Strange that Apple Intelligence was initially U.S. only, and now for those of us in the U.S. who've switched from the Beta release to the official release, Apple Intelligence only works if we switch to U.K. Hope that doesn't mess up anything else such as my Media subscriptions here in the U.S., etc. But Apple engineers need to fix this ASAP if they are even aware of the issue...

Seems those of us who updated from b version to prod are having the issues. Anyone else, a soft reset (Vol up, Vol down, hold screen button) will solve your problem. Dev b just showed up so I might backup and try that for now.

Mystery Solved!!!!

To fix the problem go to settings>general>transfer or reset phone, tap reset, tap reset all settings, follow prompts, this will reset only settings, you will not lose your data or media, when phone restarts apple intelligence will now work. No help by apple, solved by myself, spread the word and stop everyone’s frustrations

In my case, Apple is not “Intelligent” enough to allow it via data. Even image cleanup needs wifi