If you’ve moved your system to an external drive, Apple Intelligence normally won’t work, but there’s a workaround. Here’s how to enable it.
Enable Apple Intelligence when starting up from an external drive.
In our previous article we showed you how to enable Apple Intelligence and the ChatGPT extension on your Mac. But if you want to start up your Mac from an external drive and use Apple Intelligence, you’ll be blocked.
While you can still use Siri while booted into an external drive, Apple Intelligence will be disabled.