Turn on Apple Intelligence in macOS Sequoia 15.1 Beta 3 (1 Viewer)

[tywebb]

In the macOS Sequoia 15.1 betas Apple previously restricted apple intelligence to the US and device region had to be configured for US for it to work outside the US which creates more difficulties.

But with the new 15.1 beta 3 released today the device region no longer has to be set to US - only the Siri language and device language like this in System Settings:


You have to join a waitlist but it just takes a few minutes

 

[tywebb]

Note this does not work in China or EU, at least not yet anyway.

 

[tywebb]

apple has just announced that apple intelligence will be updated in december to be compatible with localised language in australia, canada, new zealand, south africa and uk - and then next year in china, france, japan, spain

so for now you still need to change language to us english as i said before, but eventually this won't be necessary

screenshots from

 

[tywebb]

It is likely that apple intelligence with localised english in sequoia will require version 15.2, not 15.1.

So you could expect 15.2 to be released in december, although it isn’t even available as beta yet

 

[tywebb]

i also think china, france, japan, spain will have to wait till 15.3 or 15.4

 

[tywebb]

so yesterday we had the 15.3 beta 1 and today there was supposed to be a full installer - but there wasn't one.

one can check for the full installers for the sequoia betas with the following code in terminal:

for file in $(curl -# https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-15seed-1.sucatalog | grep com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist | grep -Evw '(com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist.integrityDataV1|InstallInfo.plist)' | sed -e s/"<string>"//g -e s/"<\/string>"//g -e s/\ //g); do
    curl -# $file | egrep -EA 1 '(>Build<|OSVersion)' | sed -e s/"<string>"//g -e s/"<\/string>"//g -e s/\ //g | sed -e s/"<key>"//g -e s/"<\/key>"//g -e s/\ //g
    echo $file | sed -e "s/com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist/InstallAssistant.pkg/g"
done

and for public releases with this:

for file in $(curl -# https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-15-1.sucatalog | grep com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist | grep -Evw '(com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist.integrityDataV1|InstallInfo.plist)' | sed -e s/"<string>"//g -e s/"<\/string>"//g -e s/\ //g); do
    curl -# $file | egrep -EA 1 '(>Build<|OSVersion)' | sed -e s/"<string>"//g -e s/"<\/string>"//g -e s/\ //g | sed -e s/"<key>"//g -e s/"<\/key>"//g -e s/\ //g
    echo $file | sed -e "s/com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist/InstallAssistant.pkg/g"
done

so far the full installers are just for the 15.2

but something strange happened - or perhaps better put, didn't happen. the sonoma 14.7.3 rc 1 was supposed to come out yesterday, but came out today.

the sequoia, sonoma and ventura full installers usually come out the same time

so i reckon the full installer for the 15.3 beta 1 will come out tomorrow

so maybe check with the terminal code tomorrow

 

[tywebb]

i was right

apple released the full installer for the 15.3 beta 1

running this in terminal

for file in $(curl -# https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-15seed-1.sucatalog | grep com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist | grep -Evw '(com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist.integrityDataV1|InstallInfo.plist)' | sed -e s/"<string>"//g -e s/"<\/string>"//g -e s/\ //g); do
    curl -# $file | egrep -EA 1 '(>Build<|OSVersion)' | sed -e s/"<string>"//g -e s/"<\/string>"//g -e s/\ //g | sed -e s/"<key>"//g -e s/"<\/key>"//g -e s/\ //g
    echo $file | sed -e "s/com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist/InstallAssistant.pkg/g"
done

now gives this result

            Build
            24D5034f
--
            OSVersion
            15.3
https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/36/36/072-29275-A_AVBSFXK6WD/etk82scyjo77d7m70405sabsi3dlhl2zt3/InstallAssistant.pkg

pretty cool hey?

 

[tywebb]

if u do it this way u can trust the link because it is apple's system giving u the link via terminal

but such links are also available on various websites on the net

so how to verify build number for the InstallAssistant.pkg - even before downloading it?

replace the g at the end of the link with m making link to pkm file

download corresponding pkm file

https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/36/36/072-29275-A_AVBSFXK6WD/etk82scyjo77d7m70405sabsi3dlhl2zt3/InstallAssistant.pkm

open with textedit and u see this:

... version="24.3.5034.6" ...

how to read build number?

second number 0,1,2,3, ... is A,B,C,D, ...

fourth number 1,2,3,4, ... is a,b,c,d, ...

so the 3 is D and the 6 is f

so the build number is 24D5034f

note public releases and release candidates don't have the fourth number