Apple Intelligence stuck on "Preparing" status for more than 10 hours

On Day 3 and still waiting for it to stop preparing. I am beginning to think this is a ploy by Apple to get me to upgrade from an M1 to a M4.

Same issue its been 24 hours but I still can’t use this so called apple intelligence

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It was still stuck on my Mac for more than 24 hours, and I contacted Apple Support this morning. I was told that nothing was wrong and that "it needs to understand your daily routine and usual activities, it needs a little bit of time to have the data documented in order for the responses/features to be relevant to your daily activities so it should be ready by tomorrow most likely".

Just to add my voice to the group, same issue here. Stuck "preparing" since the day MacOS 15.1 was released. None of the suggestions in this thread or elsewhere fix it. Tried multiple wifi networks, restarting a million times, toggling the language, toggling the Siri voice, etc.

Hello~ The reason I asked is the Author of this post was trying to install beta. Click on below and review…

How to get Apple Intelligence - Apple Support*

*Apple Intelligence requirements for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Also what model iPhone?

~Katana-San~

I’ve updated 18.1 on 15 pro and I can turn on the apple intelligence but it doesn’t work yet! Why?

II waited over 24 hours before I finally got it to work. I tried charging the cable, changing the region and languages, and restarting the Mac a few times. Finally, it worked!

Apple M1: Here’s a sequence of steps that worked for me:

1. Change the language from English to a different language.

2. Listen to one of the voices.

3. If your Siri is disabled, enable Siri requests. If it’s enabled, toggle it off and back on.

4. Change the language back to English and select one of the other voices.

5. Apple Intelligence is now activated!

If this doesn’t work, I also deleted Siri and Dictation history before attempting the steps above. I’m not sure if that had any effect.

I signed up for the beta, but it never got activated. Perhaps we have that in common?

Ffnhxxc wrote:

same suitation to me

Have you tried all the methods many of us posted within the many pages of this thread?

I suggested to switch to another WiFi network. 🛜

Also, lobsterghost1 suggested toggling off your VPN if it’s on.

I was able to install it just fine after I wiped the drive and did a fresh install of Sequoia.

I couldn't choose voices at all. I switched languages and back to English American and at least that's fixed waiting to see if preparing goes away. It was stuck showing nothing in the Language section and Australian voice.

Kalifa2134. Change your language in Siri to English(New Zealand) and then once it settles down, change it to English (United States). I think preparing status will go away and you will have AI active.

Randomly worked. I double-tapped where it said “preparing” a few times, a percentage of completion at 15% popped up and quickly finished at 100%. I was then able to activate it after being stuck for over 24 hours.

Smilin-Brian wrote:

If it’s not fully downloaded, then wait until it is.

Listen, the download is restricted to a WiFi connection, that much is clear.

If your connection is poor, then restart the device or network.

Also (as others have pointed out), be sure that the region is set to the United States and language is set to English U.S.

It is not required or even necessary to set the region to the US. It IS necessary to set the language and Siri language to US English.