Am I seriously the only one that has this issue? Maybe I wipe my MacBook and start over? Although that will take hours to reinstall everything the way I want it.

Oh no. It’s disheartening to hear that it is still stuck on preparing despite you moving to the 15.2 beta. Are you able to download Siri voices? Ex. You change from US Siri 1 to Siri 5.

I updated to 15.1.1 hoping it would work. No dice. I guess it really was purely a security patch. I was browsing redit forums and saw a post about deleting files from the Apple Intelligence download location in an effort to kick the process off a new. It still gets stuck on exactly 4.43gb. This is driving me nuts.

I just updated to MacOS 15.2 and Apple Intelligence was immediately activated upon log-in. It appears Apple engineers have fixed the issue with the 15.2 release. Let us rejoice lol.