Fix Apple Intelligence Stuck Downloading

The key is to turn off Apple intelligence. Set your iPhones region (settings, general) to another language, I picked United Kingdom. Go to Apple intelligence turn back on and power down your phone. When you reboot you should have apple intelligence. Do the same process above but switch back to United States and it should stick. I had to do this a couple times before it worked. Seemed the key was to power cycle the phone

I think this may work. My friend was stuck on the same problem, but he eventually solved it by restarting (shutting down) his iPad. This will most likely work. Just be sure to wait a few minutes after the restart.

DO NOT RESET

Yes you will need to use WiFi, but for ANYONE who has updated from the beta 18.2, the only solution will be a fix by Apple. There are no other ways around this. Hopefully they will release the fix soon

I was in the same situation I did everything and nothing fixed it apart from changing the region to UK. I contacted Apple support. They got me to back up my phone then wipe, restore and update it with my mac. It was a long process but it actually fixed it. They said that if you just reset your phone without connecting it to your Mac, the same software's is installed in it vs when you connect it to your Mac and do it through there it wipes and completely installs a new update

Mine was stuck on download all night, approx 14 hrs, wasn’t able to disable the download. Restarted the phone just trying to break that cycle and now Apple AI is up & running. Just got the phone itself (16 Pro) on Monday, if that makes any difference.

The posts about switching to UK English worked for me although it took several tries until I got the 100% complete on the download. Left it on the UK too. Changed the voice, deleted the transcript and it worked. Went to Verizon for help -- no help. Came to this support and boom -- the answer appears. Thanks for posting.

I just got 16 pro today. Same problem. I found the fix:

change language to British on phone and Siri. Go back to AI and it should be almost an instant download. Then change back to English (us) or whatever you prefer

I have IOS 18.2.1 installed. My new iPhone 16 pro max is saying Apple intelligence downloading for 2 days. I tried others’ suggestions like change the region and back to US, change language and back to English. But no effect. How to solve this problem?

i just opened up my 16 pro, and when I go to apple intel and Siri, it’s already set to English (united states) so I clicked whatever the “get” button was and it’s said downloading for the past three days. But the rest of my family’s worked fine of course.

FIXED: For this who have tried every common fix and still can’t get it to work. Read this. For weeks I tried everything. Every suggested region, every language, literally everything I could find online and NOTHING worked. I had the apple intelligence option available and turned on and zero luck. Restarting didn’t work. Upgrading from 18.1 to 18.2 didn’t work.

here is what worked: I backup my iPhone with the none working none downloading apple intelligence.a complete local and iCloud update while on iOS 18.2. Then I fully reset my iPhone (erased all content and settings but not pictures, songs….)

then i restore my phone back to the same crappy 18.2 that wasn’t working and voila, apple intelligence actually started to download. So if all else failed try this and with the full back up and restore you won’t lose anything

Never mind. I FIGURED OUT THAT OTHERS ARE CORRECT. Change language to UK under Apple AI, and that should fix download issue. Mine is currently downloading. You need to go under Apple AI, and scroll down a bit. The option to change language is a column down.

All this talk of switching to UK language is nonsense. I have been on US language all the way and fixed the issue by putting on the charger and doing a power cycle. AI came on instantly after that, no language change necessary.

No need to reset, change language or anything crazy. Simply put IPhone on a charger, power cycle (turn off the IPhone completly), reboot the phone, go to settings and AI option will show. Fixed mine within less than 5 minutes.

👆 This is what worked for me. I tried all the other options. Changing the region/language, deleting Siri dictation history, resetting carrier settings, and probably one or two more things mentioned in this thread. Finally, when I did the reset bagarwood mentioned above (volume up, volume down, hold the power button until you see the Apple logo) it rebooted and Apple Intelligence was no longer stuck, and I was able to turn it on.

I'm chill, but when you tell people that switching to UK is not necessary, you have no clue what you are talking about because for some of us IT IS! So you are putting out false information, or at the very least misinformed to our situation. And how is it helpful to simply tell us to do the very first thing we've all tried first a dozen times!?