The function I dislike probably the most about Apple Intelligence must be the AI-powered notification summaries.
These notification summaries are alleged to offer you a fast solution to look at essential info out of your apps. If you’ve got a number of notifications from an app like Apple News, the notification summaries function recaps all of your notifications into a brief sentence or two, in order that you do not have to learn every particular person notification you have acquired.
These summaries, nevertheless, produce some really absurd and inaccurate content material. It’s gotten so unhealthy that Apple has paused these AI-generated notification summaries as a part of the newest iOS 18.3 beta launched on Thursday.
However, if you happen to’re on iOS 18.2, you continue to have these summaries on by default. However, if you happen to’re as sad with them as I’ve been, there’s a solution to disable notification summaries. Here’s how.
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I do know Apple Intelligence is attempting to assist, however…
The new notification abstract function on Apple Intelligence makes use of AI to “intelligently” summarize your notifications, so you’ll be able to shortly scan by way of key particulars out of your busiest apps. And whereas the function works fairly effectively for summarizing lengthy emails into succinct factors, it would not at all times make sense with textual content messages.
Apple Intelligence takes issues too actually typically.
The different day, I acquired a number of textual content messages about how unhealthy a hike was and the way that particular person felt “useless” (drained) after, together with another sparse particulars. This is how Apple Intelligence summarized these few messages for me:
Not the best message to get up to.
This is a textual content about how a coach “killed” my buddy with a selected powerful exercise.
The coach killed my buddy? Or the opposite means spherical?
Apple Intelligence, and extra particularly the notification summaries function, simply would not do effectively with sarcasm, exaggerations, jokes and slang. And that is an issue, particularly with how casual textual content messaging may be. There’s even a subreddit with a ton of horrible notification summaries that individuals have acquired from Apple Intelligence. It takes every thing at face worth, which might result in some fairly horrifying, incorrect or just annoying summaries for textual content messages.
How to show off notification summaries for textual content messages
Instead of stressing every time a disturbing abstract seems, I disabled notification summaries for textual content messages. If you need to do the identical, it is easy:
- Launch the Settings software
- Go to Notifications > Summarize Previews
- Toggle off Messages
You can disable notification summaries for any app in your iPhone.
In place of receiving condensed summaries of a number of textual content messages, you may see each particular person textual content message in your lock display or notification heart like normal. You might utterly disable notification summaries (flip off Summarize Previews) for each single app in your telephone, however as I discussed earlier, it really works fairly effectively for emails and third-party apps.
For now, it is doing a actually nice job with textual content messages. See Siri? That’s sarcasm.
