The launch of Apple’s iPhone 17 and the subsequent arrival of iOS 26 left fans of Apple smartphones with many new hardware and software to explore. Unfortunately, as is often the case with the new versions, there have also been some hiccups. Apple has already confirmed that it is aware of a bug with research in the Calendar application in iOS 26, although there is a bypass solution for the problem that resolved it for certain users. Now, it seems that the company has confirmed another bug, and it is a little larger, the bug affecting the use of Apple intelligence on iPhone 17 devices specifically.
According to a Post of the Apple Support Support CommunityA user picked up his iPhone 17 Pro and started using Apple Intelligence’s features without any problems. However, after a few days, the models no longer seemed to work, and the iPhone 17 told them that “models had to be downloaded”. When checking for the storage of their device, Apple Intelligence was already installed and taking 6.59 GB.
Others affecting on the same thread noted the same problem, with one, even saying that the models were always “wedged for download” and that they followed all the troubleshooting steps with the Apple support on the phone.
Another bump on the road for Apple Intelligence
Although Apple support has recognized the problem, the company has not yet published specific information on the moment when a fix could happen. In the meantime, this is only another misstep on the long and rolling room Apple a market with its exit from features fueled by the AI. Earlier this year, one of our own writers realized that Apple Intelligence had disappeared from his iPhone and that he had not even noticed. We also wrote about the way Apple Siri sometimes sounded like vaporware.
Despite all this, many are always excited for what Apple Intelligence could become. And if you find yourself encountering similar problems with Apple Intelligence on your iPhone 17, you can try some quick circumvention solutions that Some users have claimed to solve the problem for them.
First, try to turn off your cellular data or even join a Wi-Fi network. This could help trigger download. If this does not work, you can try to change the language of your iPhone, then change it. Again, this could encourage the system to operate as expected. Alternatively, some have reported that activation of the plane mode, then deactivating it also helped to resolve their connection problems, or even modify the region and reset the network settings of the iPhone.
A more extreme option is to completely reset your iPhone in the Settings application, although it takes some time for everything to be fell. You can also try to wipe your device, then restore it from an iCloud backup. Unfortunately, none of them is guaranteed to work, but Apple is already working on the next version of iOS 26, so I hope it will solve the problem by then.
