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

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

iOS 26 Feature
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.

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Top Rated Comments

TigerNike23 Avatar
18 months ago
The question is… does anyone miss it?
Score: 23 Votes (Like | Disagree)
18 months ago
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.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
macos9rules Avatar
18 months ago
If Apple Intelligence needs to connect to Apple's servers, why does it need an M1+ processor to work?
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
MacUserFella Avatar
18 months ago

The question is… does anyone miss it?
Yes! I do!
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Westside guy Avatar
18 months ago
Down for hours? I thought, at this point, it'd been down for about a year and a half. :p
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
IceCool Avatar
18 months ago
Forget it being down. I’m interested in the changes made behind the scenes. Wish we could know… 😩
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