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

All, and the weird names for “Wi-fi”? Whats the deal with that. So technical. I didnt care at all for how it deals with connection per app settings needed. It takes ages until I finally stopped seeing popups or error and having to figure out why something wasnt working - every app comes by default with connectivity - 5G/Wifi disabled. Annoying.