Using an iPhone 15 Pro. I'm in Australia on iOS 18.2 Beta 1 but there's no mention of Apple Intelligence anywhere in the phone. Settings looks identical without the menu for AI, there's no playground image generation. It's as if my phone doesn't know it exists
I am having the same problem and i did some research, so what you need to do is check the last two letter of your devices model number and google what country its from, in my case it turned out the reseller i got my device from got it from china meaning I can’t use apple intelligence, if yours is from eu or china, you would need to wait until apple intelligence is public for that country.