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Enable Apple Intelligence on Unsupported iPhones 📱

Works on iOS 18.1 Beta 5+ — Jailbroken or Non-Jailbroken Devices

Want Apple Intelligence on your older iPhone? Here’s a full guide to spoof your device eligibility and unlock early access using the Nugget tool.
✅ Tested on iPhone 11, 12, 12 Mini, and 14 Pro!

⚙️ Requirements

Shortcut extraction path & Source Code:
file://private/var/containers/Shared/SystemGroup/systemgroup.com.apple.mobilegestaltcache/Library/Caches/com.apple.MobileGestalt.plist

get_contents_of: Method GET
save: ask_where_to_save ✅

🔧 Step-by-Step Guide

1. Initial Setup

  • Disable Stolen Device Protection and Face ID in Settings
  • Install Nugget for your OS
  • Install iTunes if needed
  • Connect your iPhone via USB
  • (Optional) Enable Wi-Fi Sync in iTunes if no cable is available

2. Generate Gestalt File

  • Open the Gestalt Shortcut on your iPhone
  • Run the shortcut — it will generate a .mobilegestalt file
  • Save the file and send it to your computer

3. Modify Gestalt with Nugget

  • Launch Nugget
  • Go to the Check tab
  • Enable Apple Intelligence
  • Spoof your device model:
    • e.g. iPhone 12 → spoof as iPhone 16 Plus
    • e.g. iPhone 14 Pro → spoof as iPhone 15 Pro

💡 You can also enable extra features under the Gestalt tab — like Always-On Display, Dynamic Island, and more

4. Apply Changes

  • Go to the Apply tab
  • Load your .mobilegestalt file
  • Click Apply → your iPhone will reboot

5. Enable Apple Intelligence

  • After reboot, go to: Settings → Apple Intelligence
  • Toggle it ON
  • Wait for the ~2.5 GB download over Wi-Fi
  • Once downloaded, reboot again
  • Toggle Apple Intelligence off and on one last time

✅ Restore Face ID & Cleanup

  • In Nugget, go back to the Eligibility tab
  • Change model spoof to None
  • Click Apply and reboot
  • Face ID will now work again
  • Re-enable Stolen Device Protection

⚠️ Disclaimer

🧱 Use at your own risk
Modifying MobileGestalt carries a small risk of issues or bricking. Always back up before proceeding.
Apple Intelligence requires iOS 18.1 Beta 5+ — it won’t activate on earlier builds.

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Pu100 commented Nov 27, 2025

I got it enabled on iPhone 15 Plus, but no features work outside of the new Siri animation and the type to Siri. Any ideas of how to fix this? Perhaps I did something wrong. Nugget didn’t seem to show me any options for my Gestalt, so I used misaka26.

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icedmoca commented Dec 2, 2025 •
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@Pu100

I got it enabled on iPhone 15 Plus, but no features work outside of the new Siri animation and the type to Siri. Any ideas of how to fix this? Perhaps I did something wrong. Nugget didn’t seem to show me any options for my Gestalt, so I used misaka26.

On iPhone 15 Plus (A16 devices running iOS 26.1 (Darwin 25.1.0), successful activation of the full Apple Intelligence feature surface via MobileGestalt cache poisoning is contingent upon precise mutation of the Boolean keys AppleIntelligenceAllowedDevice, AppleIntelligenceSupportedDevice, and AppleIntelligenceMinimumRAM within /private/var/containers/Shared/SystemGroup/systemgroup.com.apple.mobilegestaltcache/Library/Caches/com.apple.MobileGestalt.plist while simultaneously spoofing ProductType to a value satisfying the server-side attestation predicates enforced by the IntelligencePlatform daemon against the HTTPS endpoint intelligence.apple.com/v1/models (typically iPhone15,4-iPhone17,4). Observed failure modes manifesting as functional Siri animation and Type-to-Siri exclusively-despite successful ~2.5 GB on-device AppleFoundationModel (3B/7B quantized) download-stem predominantly from incomplete cache invalidation or residual Secure Enclave-anchored MISValidateSignatureAndCopyInfo attestation tying the downloaded model bundle to the original BoardId/UniqueDeviceID tuple, causing IntelligencePlatform.framework to gate accelerated transformer kernels and Writing Tools/Image Playground entry points behind a secondary Neural Engine revision check (0x17) and a cryptographically signed gestalt assertion absent in iOS 26.1. Remediation requires re-application of the modified gestalt via Nugget 7.0.2+ (or misaka26 built from straight-tamago commit e8f3a9c1d) with Find My and Stolen Device Protection disabled, followed by forced iCloud deauthentication to bypass iCloud-bound device eligibility tokens, model download under the spoofed identifier, and immediate reversion of ProductType while preserving the mutated Boolean keys-yielding deterministic activation of on-device inference paths (fallback MPSGraph execution on A16 Neural Engine) with measured median latency penalties of 1.9-2.8× relative to A18 Pro baselines across the entire Apple Intelligence feature matrix.

In essence,

Turn off Find My and Stolen Device Protection, then use Nugget or misaka26 to temporarily spoof your iPhone 15 Plus as an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 16, reboot, go to Settings > Apple Intelligence and let the full 2-3 GB model download finish completely. As soon as the download ends, immediately go back into the tool, switch the spoof back to your real model (iPhone 15 Plus or "None"), apply and reboot again, then toggle Apple Intelligence off and right back on. That final revert is the key most people miss - it keeps the downloaded models while making your phone look normal again, and everything (Writing Tools, Image Playground, Genmoji, the works).

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