Please Help Writing Tools Unavailable - Certain capabilities are unavailable at this time. Try again later.

Please double-check your settings and make sure you’ve finished downloading Apple Intelligence. Once that’s done, the function should start working.

If you do have an iPhone 11, Writing Tools is integrated into Apple Intelligence, so you can't use them at all on your iPhone. You'd need an iPhone 15 Pro or Max, or any of the new iPhone 16 models.

Same here. iPhone 16 promax , iOS 18.1, Writing Tools was working fine a couple of days ago but now ceased functioning.

tried everything on here and no change.

I tried it on both Pages and Notes apps and the result is the same as below:

Until 24 Dec. It's still unstable—many errors. writing tools always restart when they get errors.

I’ve just upgraded to a 16 pro max and Genmoji and writing tools unavailable!!! It’s a joke, feeling ripped off as per usual 😡

Same but on 16 pro max . I have developer access for years . The error on the phone is “ writing tools unavailable for this content” where it had worked before every time.

I did link my ChatGPT developer account as I thought I might get a better ai experience.

my theory is it’s just now that more people have access to apples ai they are having some server problems .

when I first fired up the 18 beta it only gave me the error occasionally. It’s too bad because it’s really been stellar. I can say they have adddee a button it seems since the ai button to the keyboard has came about it’s been not working . Just got the latest beta and sadly the same . It did fix YouTube not working .

I get this message too but for me I believe the problem lies in the fact that I don't have a WiFi connection and for all the features to be downloaded requires a WiFi connection. In settings, I have this message, "Apple Intelligence will download later when this iPad is connected to Wi-Fi. Some Apple Intelligence and Siri features may be unavailable until the download is complete."

I'm kind of a Mac-spert. I'd say that is due to a failed update in some way.

Do you have an intel or M-series based Mac?

Have you applied any third party "tweaks" to your Mac if you're on an M-Series? (E.g, dual booting linux, editing firmware, themes, etc.)

If you're on an M-Series, go to recovery and try changing Secure Boot to the other option and then try an update.

I'm not extremely well-versed on newer Macs, but I know quite a bit about it.

And for a quick test, boot into diagnostics and see if it spits anything out at you.

I know it used to throw a power error at you if you don't have it plugged in, but I no longer get an error if I leave it unplugged, so if you're using diagnostics while not plugged in, ignore the power error.

It did the same thing to me on my iPhone 16 Pro Max until a few days later when I realized I had to connect to Wi-Fi again and wait for the AI update. The AI update is in the artificial intelligence settings, and it will show you waiting for download.

TriVitaRyan wrote:

A.I. Writing Tools is still not fully working on my MacBook Pro 16" M1 Max (work laptop). I've wasted too much time trying to figure it out with no luck, so I've turned A.I. off until Apple produces a better A.I. experience. I should have known better; I generally don't run beta software because it may cause more issues than it's worth. I've reinstalled Grammarly and will return to using ChatGPT until Apple figures out their A.I. 😊

Since you are using a work laptop I assume it might actually be your IT department who blocks some of the features. One of the current features they can currently block is writing tools (see link below) which is also the reason why it doesn’t show up on my work computer. I confirmed this with my IT department who said they blocked every AI feature they can right now to make sure it’s safe to use.

more on what they can currently block:

JAMF and writing tools

more discussion on that:

Reddit

Solved, at least for one scenario:

I was having a similar issue on my Macbook Pro (M1 Pro running 15.1.1) - I could see the Apple Intelligence icon in Notes and click it, but nothing happened. Similary I could SEE the writing tools in the edit menu, but they were all grayed out.

In my case it turned out that being on my company VPN was blocking my access to the service. Turning it off immediately let me see the tool palette and access them all through the menu. YMMV - good luck!

This worked and it works in US and UK.

Let's try to reset all settings.

Go to Settings  > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset.

Reset All Settings: All settings—including network settings, the keyboard dictionary, location settings, privacy settings, and Apple Pay cards—are removed or reset to their defaults. No data or media are deleted.

It's been working since the release now same error, it won't even proofread on every device - iPhone 16Pro, iMac-M1, etc. I've tried toggling and downloading a new - it just won't work. I bought this phone for this feature this is ridiculous.

his worked and it works in US and UK.

Let's try to reset all settings.

Go to Settings  > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset.

Reset All Settings: All settings—including network settings, the keyboard dictionary, location settings, privacy settings, and Apple Pay cards—are removed or reset to their defaults. No data or media are deleted.