Apple Intelligence Apparently Too Smart for M1 Macs After Listing Error

Apple's website is causing immoderate disorder among Mac owners, and for bully crushed – its instrumentality compatibility listing for Apple Intelligence appears to person dropped enactment for M1 Macs.


The U.S. mentation of its Apple Intelligence webpage has been updated astatine the bottommost to database "M2 oregon later" Mac models arsenic eligible for the AI features, replacing the long-standing "M1 and later" requirement.

However, determination versions – including the UK and Canada sites – proceed to notation M1 Macs arsenic compatible with Apple Intelligence. Meanwhile, Apple's enactment page, titled "How to get Apple Intelligence" and dated November 10, inactive lists "Mac with M1 oregon later" nether the instrumentality requirements.

Looking astatine the quality betwixt the unrecorded webpage and the past archived snapshot from November 6, Apple appears to person intentionally changed Apple Vision Pro from "M2" to "M2 oregon later" to bespeak the caller motorboat of the Vision Pro with M5 chip. But whoever did the edit besides appears to person erroneously changed the Macs successful the database to "M2 oregon later" arsenic well.

On the Canada and UK pages, Apple has not yet updated the Vision Pro to "M2 oregon later", which is different motion that this is precisely what has happened. We expect Apple volition close the U.S. webpage aboriginal contiguous erstwhile it learns of the mistake.

Apple Intelligence began rolling retired successful October 2024, bringing generative and contextual AI tools crossed iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It includes a scope of capabilities, including composing substance and emails, generating images, summarizing documents and texts, and more.

We are inactive waiting for Apple to merchandise a much precocious mentation of Siri with contextual consciousness that has been promised since past year. Apple is expected to rotation retired the caller mentation of ‌Siri‌ astir March oregon April 2026.

(Thanks, Jason!)
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