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How to Enable Apple Intelligence If You're Outside the US

Vol Braakzakje said:
This does not work.

It only works on the Mac.

If you're in the EU and bought your iPhone in the EU, you're out of luck. The writer from this article needs to update his knowledge. There is currently no option to get it working on EU bought devices.
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But if this is true then why on Mac is working?

All my devices are bought in EU. On iPad and iPhone i cannot use the workaround, but on mac is working.
 
I am in U.S. but had Siri voice set to English UK, had to switch to English US before I could activate Apple Intelligence…. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷
 
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G5isAlive said:
EU < china. EU has repeatedly pulled apple into court to force apple to change its business practices, more than china. And now you’re surprised Apple is more conservative in its roll out of services to the EU? Everything has consequences. Complain to your headline grabbing leaders.
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I'd prefer Apple change their business practices. Also, China is the reason the iPhone is getting RCS. They mandated all 5g-capable phones sold in the county must have RCS support.

Tripps9000 said:
I feel really sorry for those people who only have the standard 15 they like the rest off us with older phones won’t get to enjoy the ai experience!
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I'm keeping it disabled regardless of what phone model I'm using. No thank you.
 
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Adamov said:
But if this is true then why on Mac is working?

All my devices are bought in EU. On iPad and iPhone i cannot use the workaround, but on mac is working.
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EU doesn't have any issues with numerous commerce or software installation limitations that exist with iOS/IPadOS compared to MacOS. Want to purchase a game that is cloud based for a Mac, you can do it using any browser to buy and install it from the web and then play it.
 
Why do you post this? It does NOT work. Not even with us apple accounts. It works in uk which isn’t Europe
 
I have a iphone 15 pro bought from china and the apple intelligence doesn't show up in the settings menu at all. I'd be okay if it showed up and said it is not available in your region and the like... but it is as if it does not exist at all.
I tried many tricks to get it on screen but it wasn't possible. What the hell apple?
 
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MLVC said:
macOS is not named a gatekeeper by the EU, so I guess that's why it can be activated on the Mac in the EU.
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I actually didn't realize this before now. Thanks.

I don't have high expectations for Apple's AI. At least not the first months or years of it.

But getting to try it out on macOS despite Apple (probably) not launching it for 15 Pro/Max and iPhones 16 in the EU is pretty great.

Then I can confidently know if it actually sucks or not. I'm genuinely hoping it doesn't.
 
It’s…. Not bad? The rewriting thing is pretty cool and doesn’t need a web connection. Conversational Siri is useful but it still doesn’t have full screen context. For example I have an email open in its own window and ask Siri for a summary and it either reads it all out or starts with the most recent at the top of my inbox. If you add the sender (“summarise my most recent email from John”) then it picks it out.

Hopefully this will all come in time.
 
Vol Braakzakje said:
This does not work.

It only works on the Mac.

If you're in the EU and bought your iPhone in the EU, you're out of luck. The writer from this article needs to update his knowledge. There is currently no option to get it working on EU bought devices.
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I don’t think this is correct. Dutch phones for example have the same model number as Swiss phones, which can access Apple Intelligence with this workaround. There are other variables in play, see https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Eligibility for more info
 
I followed all the steps and again, "not in your country of region"
 
I hope the implementation in the EU will come fairly soon.
Not having such functionality would not be a dealbreaker for me, but I wouldn't like being short changed by having a less functional device (especially since I have an apple silicon mac and I'll be getting an iPhone 16).
 
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Kwikyy said:
Apple uses several property lists (files with the .plist extension). They specifically use:

- The device region
- The device type (iPhone, iPad, determined by the serial number)
- The Siri language
- The device locale
- The billing region in the App Store (which is why screen mirroring to a Mac was sufficient)
- Whether the system is generative (A17 Pro and M1)
- Whether the device has a Chinese SIM card (such devices also lack the Xcode language model for code prediction)
- The user's country
- The device language

Each country has a country code that determines eligibility for Apple Intelligence. These country codes, which are estimated using data from nearby cellular towers and 802.11d Wi-Fi networks, as well as other nearby electronic devices, are stored in the device cache. That’s why I said it wasn’t as easy 😉 And to your question yes, simply changing the region and language without being in the US, is normally not sufficient for an iOS/iPadOS device even though some have managed to get AI by connecting their device to a Mac with a VPN, and changing their billing region. For some others, it didn’t work. 😊
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Surprised they don't do the same to block iPhone Mirroring
 
jonnyb said:
I switched my UK iPhone to US English and now every time I type the word 'contacting' Apple Intelligence replaces it with 'reaching out', so I have had to throw it in the sea.
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This was my worry that it’ll ruin our perfect version of the language. Can you fish your phone back out of the sea and see if you can then change back to Civilised English and Apple AI stays enabled? I’m sure it sadly won’t and only works on Barbaric English.
 
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FastLaneJB said:
This was my worry that it’ll ruin our perfect version of the language. Can you fish your phone back out of the sea and see if you can then change back to Civilised English and Apple AI stays enabled? I’m sure it sadly won’t and only works on Barbaric English.
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I’m in the uk

Tried

The moment you change the language

Apple intelligence is shown as not available
 
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