iOS 18.3 beta temporarily removes Notification Summaries for News and Entertainment

iPhone screenshot of the misleading BBC notification (image: BBC)
iPhone screenshot of a misleading BBC notification (image: BBC)

Following several high-profile errors, Apple in its latest iOPS 18.3 beta has temporarily disabled the Apple Intelligence Notification Summaries feature that aggregates incoming notifications into a single quick-access message.

Juli Clover for MacRumors:

For now, Notification Summaries for the News and Entertainment category have been temporarily disabled, and Apple is working on improvements. Notification Summaries for news will return in a future software update.

In the Settings app, when a user activates Notification Summaries, Apple has added a warning that this is a beta feature and that there could be errors.

For summaries that are still available through ‌Apple Intelligence‌, the text is now italicized as a way to distinguish them from traditional notifications.


MacDailyNews Take: Again, as we’ve stated previously, AI is the wild, wild west right now and Apple Intelligence features will get refined.

In iOS 18.2 Settings > Notifications > Notification Summaries clearly states, “Summary accuracy may vary based on content.”


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