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Me too!

Macbook Air 15

iphone 15 Pro max

On my MacBook Pro M3 Max Writing tools are not even showing up. All other features work but writing tools somehow not. Are you using a corporate Mac?

Same!!! I thought maybe my wifi was blocking it, but VPN and hotspot also had it disabled.

Try this:

Disable Apple Intelligence completely

1. Connect to hotspot or a VPN or a DIFFERENT wifi network that you're sure you aren't getting blocked on as whichever you're currently on or were on when you downloaded last may have blocked the download. (Again, I'd recommend still using hotspot or a free or paid vpn to make absolutely sure you aren't going to get blocked)
2. Re-enable, you should see something along the lines of "Apple Intelligence Downloading"
3. Stay on the network until it's finished and you tested it.
4. Connect to the previous network if you'd like.

EDIT:

The bottom 4 (Summarize, key points, list, table) appear to be enabled without downloading anything extra, so that's weird it's not working for you.

The rest need to be downloaded from the internet.

_tallguy_ wrote:

Just for whoever on Apple will read this, whenever my Mac updates, it also goes into recovery mode, so I have no clue if this is related or not, but I am now also experiencing this issue.

No one from Apple is here. This is user to user only forum. You can share your concern with Apple here --> Product Feedback - Apple

ok sorted here. I don’t normally use wifi just mobile data. So I had disabled the Apple Intelligence after initially trying it a couple of days ago. And as above when I re-enabled it from setting I got the message as above.

however once I re-enabled wifi it seemed to download again now running fine.

so it appears to me that if you turn Apple Intelligence Off, perhaps it deletes a good portion of it, then needs a wi-fi connection to re download.

If any of you have grammarly try quitting it completely I was having the same problem for days and quitting grammarly fixed it. They added an AI update and it seems grammarly AI doesnt get along with Apple Intelligence.

Same issue, worked for a day with the MacBook Air. Tried all the possible solutions on this thread and no luck. Anyone had luck with new public beta and apple intelligence working in Mac Mail?

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:

Upgrade to 15.2 finally sorted the issue. Hope it works now on...

I am happy for you! For me the issue remains.

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.