It’s honest to say that the Apple Intelligence options launched to this point have been met with combined opinions. Among the many extra contentious options is AI-powered summaries of notifications on the lock display and notification shade. It’s helpful when you will have a bunch of notifications from the identical app or to rapidly provide you with an concept of what updates to a Messages thread are all about.
However like every part powered by Synthetic Intelligence, it will possibly get issues mistaken. Generally, very mistaken. When summarizing information alerts, these poor summaries can fully misrepresent the actual story, and Apple rightly acquired some actual criticism over it. What’s extra, the tiny little icon within the notification is just not a transparent sufficient indication that you simply’re taking a look at an AI-generated abstract.
With iOS 18.3 (beginning in beta 3), Apple is introducing a number of key modifications to Apple Intelligence notification summaries that ought to assist deal with these points:
- Notification Summaries for apps within the Information & Leisure class can be disabled for now, and re-enabled in a future replace when Apple improves the accuracy of the AI summaries.
- If you allow Notification Summaries in settings, it extra clearly states that the characteristic is a beta (as all Apple Intelligence options are) and that summaries “might comprise errors.”
- Summarized textual content is italicized, along with the little AI abstract icon subsequent to the textual content. It will additional separate them from common notification textual content.
- You possibly can disable Notification Summaries for an app proper from the lock display. Swipe left on the notification partway, select “Choices” then “Flip off Summaries.”
These modifications are lively beginning in iOS 18.3 beta 3 and ought to be current when iOS 18.3 is launched extensively, doubtless in late January or early February.
