Image playground not on my iPhone 16 Plus after installing iOS 8.2

Change the Region and country to US or UK. Problem solved

Follow the below step for UAE users.

**Settings:**

- Click on your name.

- Select “Media and Purchases” and view your account.

- Next, select “Country and Region” and change to the United States or any other country that supports Apple Intelligence.

**Note:** If you have a subscription, you must cancel it and wait until the subscription period ends.

I had this problem too, on my 16 Pro. Turns out that Playground is embedded within Freeform (at least it was, in mine). Open Freeform, add a board, add an image to the board (bottom right corner) and you should see a menu pop up, giving you options like Insert from, Link, Scan etc. Playground appears on that menu and clicking it will open up the familiar Playground interface.

I can't find it in the App Store.

Same here. When I got the App Store and navigate to image playground, only option is “Open” but when I click on it, it just says “Apple Intelligence Required. Open the Image Playground App to join the Image Creation waitlist. Go to Settings.”

I have Apple Intelligence turned on, and when I open the Image Playground app to try to join the waitlist, it just gives me the same message, with no way to join the waitlist.

Ugh!

Oh trust me. Be prepared to always be disappointed with iphone. I have had iphone for years, Every model I have had lags after a year. Nothing ever works, Things are glitchy, they can’t get any updates right to. Pure junk.

I have this problem too. I went to Apple Store and talked to geniuses, it seems to be a bug in iOS 18.2. The way I resolved was to Reset all settings in my iPhone but not ERASE your iPhone. Hope this will work for those who won’t work at this moment.

Image playground is not working after installing ios 18.2. And chatgpt also not working or not showing the icons of that apps also on my phone iphone 15 pro. Worste update ever i seen with in apple 👎🏿

I wonder how many more people will say change to us because they don’t understand why people register their accounts in their real location.

want a reason?

government apps…

local services apps

even MacDonald and Burger King aos needed to be from your country account or you cannot install them.

people are not stupid. I have also an US account …

but when I log into it, I cannot get basic apps from my real location. And when you change back, all the cards on my Apple Pay disappeared…

and the Apple intelligence not working again.

btw… on my MacBook it is working… so region is not the real problem

it’s much more then that…

yes, I have the same problem, cant see image playground on my iPhone 16plus.

I updated my 15 pro to 18.2. But image playground not working

Am in the UAE and its not available even in my app store

If I have the iPhone 14 max pro will I not get this then? I updated to 18.2 and nothing

It cannot work because it is blocked on the App Store. Even using a link showing a message that says it is not available on your country…