It’s truthful to say that the Apple Intelligence options launched to this point have been met with combined critiques. Among the many extra contentious options is AI-powered summaries of notifications on the lock display screen and notification shade. It’s helpful when you could have a bunch of notifications from the identical app or to rapidly provide you with an thought of what updates to a Messages thread are all about.
However like every thing powered by Synthetic Intelligence, it may possibly get issues fallacious. Typically, very fallacious. When summarizing information alerts, these poor summaries can utterly misrepresent the true story, and Apple rightly acquired some actual criticism over it. What’s extra, the tiny little icon within the notification just isn’t a transparent sufficient indication that you simply’re 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 handle these points:
- Notification Summaries for apps within the Information & Leisure class will likely be disabled for now, and re-enabled in a future replace when Apple improves the accuracy of the AI summaries.
- Whenever you allow Notification Summaries in settings, it extra clearly states that the function is a beta (as all Apple Intelligence options are) and that summaries “might include errors.”
- Summarized textual content is italicized, along with the little AI abstract icon subsequent to the textual content. This can additional separate them from common notification textual content.
- You possibly can disable Notification Summaries for an app proper from the lock display screen. Swipe left on the notification partway, select “Choices” then “Flip off Summaries.”
These modifications are lively beginning in iOS 18.3 beta 3 and must be current when iOS 18.3 is launched broadly, doubtless in late January or early February.