Image Playground stuck at Early Access requested

Mine too, i updated on 24th oct 8 am ist and its 7 17 ist 25th oct and still in waitlist

Are there any walk around to get this working that you guys know of

Have the same issue here. I’m 28 hours in.

im stuck for 35 hours as of now.

It's been 32 hours for me. Thanks to others sharing, I stopped short of deleting the Playground app and trying to re-install it (you can't). Multiple reboots have made no difference. I've also tried sneaking in the backdoor by trying to access Genmojis through Messages and the Wand through Notes. No joy.

I WAS able to download the Cleanup tool in Photos, and I've been using that. It's pretty good -- basically a simplified version of the generative fill tool in Photoshop, but only for removing things. There's no feature for adding (yet). It's like the dozens of new a.i. "remove objects" photo apps, but free.

Fr apparently it was suppose to take minutes not hours, here in US it has been 15 hours and still stuck on “Early Access Requested” for everything 😒

I’ve been stuck for almost 40h .

I’ve been waiting for over 36 hours. It sucks.

Same here at 30 hours plus. In UK but still using US English albeit I switched briefly to UK English. My Region setting is UK.

Yeah me too I’m stuck in it for over 24 hours

I have the same problem waiting from 7am yesterday and still stuck on access requested

Waiting 3 days now. Tried changing regions and language but with no effect. I don't understand what the hold up is as there are lots of users who got access immediately.

Been waiting since 7PM Oct 23. been 40+ hours. still have not been accepted. Wish apple would just respond somewhere to say it just takes this long... all the documentation says could take a few hours... 40 is not a few!

im stuck fort the last 2 days since i updated to ios 18.2!! thats very annoying

I’ve been stuck for 3 days