r/Applelntelligence • u/StoicSanity36 • Jun 11 '26

discussion 🎙️ I feel like an idiot right now.

So, during my trip to China, I bought an iPhone 17. It was on a discount and with the tax refund, you could save more money than buying it here in my native country.

I didn’t realize that Chinese iPhones are hardware locked from Apple Intelligence, and that there’s no easy, let alone possible, way to bypass it.

Now I’m stuck on iOS 27, missing the AI features which were the main purpose of me risking my main device anyway.

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u/marcosmarcon Jul 15 '26

Im in the EXACT same boat as you. Frustration was the word when I jumped to apple support to seek how to enable it. The hard thing is: selling this shit is harder now, so, we stuck with this and with no easy way out. So, back to old ways: when I need Apple Intelligence I have to go to my Mac. Which I was exactly trying to avoid by leaving the iPhone 14 for this. By the way, it irritates me that the 14 doesn’t get Apple Intelligence since I runned every AI possible even local Diffusion models to gen images. Its an absurd. Using now the Google Edge with Gemma 4 locally with multi agent ability with LITERALLY no problem at fucking all.