Apple Intelligence, Apple Intelligence, Apple Intelligzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[jediatzinger]

I have an iPad Pro (M4) and iPhone 15 Pro Max. Last night I upgraded both to iOS 18.3. I had decided back when 18.0 was released I was going to wait for the “beta” tag to be dropped from Apple Intelligence before jumping in, but in 18.3 it appears it’s enabled by default.

Not cool, but it’s been displaying in Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri
”Downloading support for Apple Intelligence. Connect iPad (or iPhone) to Wi-Fi and power while models are downloading.”

Hmm. It’s been exactly like this for 24 hours…? No status or percentage displayed? How long do you wait?

edit: I went into Messages and clicked on Genmoji and see “Downloading support for Genmoji. Once downloaded this iPad will be able to use Genmoji”

 

[jediatzinger]

I'm likely going to turn it back off, but since it was enabled after installing 18.3 I thought I'd take a look... this morning it's still displaying on both my iPad and iPhone the same message as before. If it needed to download more I'd like to see a % of completion or an ETA when the AI stuff would be ready. I'm not a typical user (I'm a sysadmin), but IMHO this is a terrible first experience to Apple Intelligence. I shouldn't be wondering what's going on and/or when I'll be able to use certain features.

edit: fixed a few spelling errors.

 

[jediatzinger]

/facepalm

Eating lunch 15m ago I was browsing the web with Safari and all of the sudden a pop up appeared and says "Apple Intelligence Is Ready" followed by "Image Creation Tools Are Here".

Guess it took a few days, but come on Apple... I don't mind waiting, but let the users know what's going on (% until ready, etc)