It's Not Just You: Apple Intelligence is Down on iOS 26 and Other Betas [Fixed]

[MacRumors]

Apple Intelligence has not been working for many hours today across the first developer betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe.

The issue has been flagged by users across the Apple Developer Forums, Reddit, and other online discussion platforms throughout the day.

MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris is unable to use any Apple Intelligence features on iOS 26, ranging from Image Playground to Visual Intelligence.

The new Foundation Models framework, which provides developers with access to Apple's on-device large language model that powers Apple Intelligence, is also not working right now. Even the built-in ChatGPT functionality in the Xcode 26 beta is down.

Yes, betas are pre-release software, and issues like this are to be expected. However, we wanted to bring awareness to the ongoing outage.

While the cause of the outage is not entirely clear, developer Nicolás Alvarez said that Apple made some kind of update to its Apple Intelligence backend recently, so perhaps something went wrong with that, but we are merely speculating.

In any case, hopefully a fix is implemented soon.

Update: Just minutes after we published this article, the issue has been fixed.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1935848922389352816

Article Link: It's Not Just You: Apple Intelligence is Down on iOS 26 and Other Betas [Fixed]

 

[MacUserFella]

Seriously? You guys are just realizing?!

 

[TigerNike23]

The question is… does anyone miss it?

 

[MacUserFella]

The question is… does anyone miss it?

Yes! I do!

 

[IceCool]

Forget it being down. I’m interested in the changes made behind the scenes. Wish we could know… 😩

 

[goldmac2006]

No wonder this happened since last night. My 15 Pro stopped having the glowing Siri, writing tools and visual intelligence.

Seems like a server outage for Apple Intelligence; it started since like 9 or 10 pm PDT last night. Restarts didn’t seem to help so this is what the issue is about.

The server status page doesn’t show up for this particular outage.

 

[jz0309]

The world is coming to an end …
/s

 

[AusMness]

The question is… does anyone miss it?

I absolutely would. My Mac seems to still let me use it though - I only have it on Mac atm

 

[julesme]

I’m disappointed to admit that I’d never notice if it were down.

I use Gemini, ChatGPT / CoPilot, and Grok on a regular basis, but I haven’t found a reason to keep using Apple Intelligence after trying it a few months ago.

 

[whelmedjedi]

I hope they fix “accessory takes a while to respon” issue. (It already responded but siri has no idea lol (since ios 26) (already reported to apple via feedback app))

 

[dannyyankou]

Glad I waited, I was about to restore my iPhone lol.

 

[dannyyankou]

The question is… does anyone miss it?

I found out because I wanted to use Visual Intelligence on a screenshot. That comes in handy every once in a while.

 

[goldmac2006]

I found out because I wanted to use Visual Intelligence on a screenshot. That comes in handy every once in a while.

Witnessed it not working when I realised emails weren’t being summarised , no glowing Siri borders and the writing tools unavailable.

 

[macos9rules]

If Apple Intelligence needs to connect to Apple's servers, why does it need an M1+ processor to work?

 

[AusMness]

If Apple Intelligence needs to connect to Apple's servers, why does it need an M1+ processor to work?

It doesn’t, it only periodically needs to refresh the models every once in a while, but somehow all at once most OS 26 devices decided to refresh the models at once and failed to do so

 

[VSMacOne]

It’s definitely not fixed for me. Still showing the old Siri. Edit: had to do a couple of restarts and it’s now working.

 

[NMBob]

 

[Westside guy]

Down for hours? I thought, at this point, it'd been down for about a year and a half.

 

[dannyyankou]

They fixed it

 

[goldmac2006]

They fixed it

It has been back up for about an hour already.

 

[@Brett]

Still showing as downloading on my iPad Pro but working on my iPhone 16 Pro Max again. I lodged feedback with Apple this morning.

 

[F-Trunks]

The 3 people that use it noticed it was down.

I definitely didn't lmao

 

[hagar]

Are we now covering bugs in developer beta releases?

That’s an entire new stream of articles coming our way this summer.

 

[Hewhowalksbehindtherows]

I wasn't aware developers wasted their time on Reddit. At the same time, Reddit seems to attract unskilled beta users.

 

[mpuk]

A subtle reminder on sovereignty.