macOS how do I activate AI

The subject says all…

Ihave last seqouia and now, how do I use the AI ?

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=how+do+I+activate+apple+intelligence+in+sequoia

I’m not clicking the link, but I presume that’s an AI answer. :slight_smile:

No, it’s an old internet meme. It just types the query into Google and then clicks the search button for you.

It’s for the people who haven’t even bothered to try.

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No Jerry, a standard Google answer, but an an animation :wink:

my fault, it was rvident in my head, but I’d better write it; so now:

i went there, check some entries and avoid videos, then I asked the question.

I can also disclose (to my shame) that I activate siri an read what it ask me to read.

I am still in the dark.

Please, give me an “answer for the young”.

Please remember this feeling you are experiencing right now the next time someone new on the official forum asks a question and your reaction is to link the documentation and do nothing else. In those instances it would be more helpful for you not to post.

Follow the results to the Apple instructions that tell you how to turn it on:

Of significance on that page:

Turn Apple Intelligence on: With macOS 15.3 or later, Apple Intelligence is on by default and integrated across features in your apps. If you have an earlier version of macOS 15 (or if you previously turned off Apple Intelligence), choose Apple menu  > System Settings, click Apple Intelligence & Siri, then click Get Apple Intelligence.

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Thank you.

My bad memory in that case worked fine: I read that part, but I do not found the Get Apple Intelligence.

I set the language to US, etc. (it’s near 10:00PM now)… time to sleep.

PS: I created an example for a user that answered all asked stuff with scarse details on his part, and no feedback. I do not awaited a Thank you, but I receive it / I am looking / works fine. Nothing.
Some days later he told that his Xojo version was older and cannot open the example (example as binary, not an application).

If you read carefully the posts, usually (and sometimes I am included) people forget to give the most important information.
At last, I read (and sometimes waste my time and give up) the documentation, I test solutions and when I do not know what else to do either I give up or I ask question(s).

Another example: the title of the post was about ListBox.CellAt().Bold = True who does not works. I get a flag for my answer.
In fact, set a cell contents to Bold worked fine, when I proved it, the guy say he have done the same test BEFORE writing the post.

Sometimes I ask myself if the post I am reading is from a true user of by someone who want discussions in the Forum. (Who, Why, I do not know, of course).

Regards

You posted a screenshot of your system settings in French telling you that Apple Intelligence is not available when your Mac language is set to French.

I’m not sure where to go from there. Maybe go to an Apple Store for help?

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Some, if not most Apple AI features are not yet available in EU countries.

I changed the language to US-English everywhere I can (speak, display the time as AM/PM).

I even reboot the computer to be sure the changes are acknowledged.

I went to the Apple store on Friday, ask questions about the Stocks application that continues to be fired silently in my back. The technician feels a SSD corruption.

I asked another question, but this one I forgot and time flies, he had other customers in his waiting list and it was 12H00.

@Torsten_B no, but if you set the preferences to EN-US, it is possible to activete it. I even found a page in French from Apple web that “explain” … (more a marketing page than a HowTo…)

why apple intelligence when backyardai is just as good a next-word-generator? :smiley:

I don’t mean to be super cynical, but so many of these features were already in macOS and older Apple products (even in the 90s). But Apple’s cash grab formula has been: remove feature, wait a few years, re-add feature. Now they re-add some past features but you have to go through LLM to get them.

And I have trouble understanding why I need such expensive equipment to have over internet natural language processing create my calendar events, when a 25mhz Arm processor in 90s could do it on-device, and when I did it as a VisualBasic app on PocketPC.

Regardless, install the latest update and it will either enable it by default or ask you to enable it.
To do it manually, go to Apple Intelligence on the left sidebar. You’ll either have a message asking you to enable it, or it’ll be enabled.

Changing the language does not change the macOS region for features like this. It may even use your AppleID to determine eligibility.

You can get it working in Europe.
Change region to USA, language to English, then Siri language to English and apply for Apple intelligence in system preferences.

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No, at Install times nothing around AI (as I can remember) was asked.

Yes, I4ve gone to region and changed it using the multi-choices Control (translated to America vs Europe, USA instead of France). I was as far as when Siri asked me to repeat some sentences…

And before asking here, I made a cold reboot (Shutdown, wait a minute or two and reboot). Then I’ve done the screenshot above. I had the Click in AM/PM and some other minor changes, but nothing from AI.

I know that “curiosity killed the cat”, but I wanted to see with my eye what this beast is.

At last, I tried “Updates” from General (Settings ?) and it says I am already up to date.

I may have a hard disk trouble. That is the only reason I can think at if it is so easy to access to it.

Thanks for trying to help.

For what it worths, it’s announced to become available around next April in French.
I, for one, am just waiting that date instead of messing with my whole system.

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Sometimes I have crzay ideas :smile: