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Why Memora requires Apple Intelligence
The screen you may see at launch, what each state means, and why the answer is a gate rather than a lesser version.
Memora checks for Apple Intelligence when it launches. On-device AI is the product here rather than a garnish, so a half-working Memora would be worse than an honest explanation.
What you need
iPhone 15 Pro or later, running iOS 26 or later, with Apple Intelligence turned on in Settings and the on-device model finished downloading.
What you might see
- Hardware that cannot run Apple Intelligence: a full-screen explanation instead of the app. This one is an honest dead end.
- Apple Intelligence turned off: a screen with a direct path into iOS Settings, which clears itself when you come back.
- The model still downloading: an explanation that resolves on its own the next time you open Memora.
Why not a lesser version instead
Manual cards and the full FSRS scheduler are free and never paywalled, and a local text-analysis path still covers a transient failure inside a session. But generating cards from your own material is the reason to choose Memora, so the app does not pretend to be itself without it.
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