Apple’s web site is inflicting some confusion amongst Mac house owners, and for good cause – its machine compatibility itemizing for Apple Intelligence seems to have dropped help for M1 Macs.
The U.S. model of its Apple Intelligence webpage has been up to date on the backside to record “M2 or later” Mac fashions as eligible for the AI options, changing the long-standing “M1 and later” requirement.
Nonetheless, regional variations – together with the UK and Canada websites – proceed to reference M1 Macs as suitable with Apple Intelligence. In the meantime, Apple’s help web page, titled “Easy methods to get Apple Intelligence” and dated November 10, nonetheless lists “Mac with M1 or later” underneath the machine necessities.
Wanting on the distinction between the dwell webpage and the final archived snapshot from November 6, Apple seems to have deliberately modified Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional from “M2” to “M2 or later” to mirror the latest launch of the Imaginative and prescient Professional with M5 chip. However whoever did the edit additionally seems to have erroneously modified the Macs within the record to “M2 or later” as nicely.
On the Canada and UK pages, Apple has not but up to date the Imaginative and prescient Professional to “M2 or later”, which is one other signal that that is precisely what has occurred. We count on Apple will appropriate the U.S. webpage later right now as soon as it learns of the error.
Apple Intelligence started rolling out in October 2024, bringing generative and contextual AI instruments throughout iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It touts a variety of capabilities, together with composing textual content and emails, producing photos, summarizing paperwork and texts, and extra.
We’re nonetheless ready for Apple to launch a extra superior model of Siri with contextual consciousness that has been promised since final yr. Apple is anticipated to roll out the brand new model of Siri round March or April 2026.
(Thanks, Jason!)
