Some big changes are coming to Apple Intelligence notification summaries. With the latest list of developer previews for iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3, Apple has suspended added system notifications, specifically from news and entertainment apps, while it works on improvements to alerts.
The company also added a new disclosure that appears when users first enable notification summaries. It states that notifications are a beta feature and may produce unexpected results. On the other hand, the betas add a new option that allows users to decide from the lock screen if they want to summarize notifications from an application. Lastly, ai-generated alerts use italicized text to further distinguish them from their non-summarized counterparts.
Last week, Apple told Engadget that it was working on an update to notification summaries. “Apple Intelligence features are in beta and we are continually making improvements with the help of user feedback,” Apple said. “A software update in the coming weeks will further clarify when the text displayed is a summary provided by Apple Intelligence. We encourage users to report a concern if they see an unexpected notification summary.”
Notification summaries are one of the features that arrived alongside the initial release of Apple Intelligence with iOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1. Shortly after their release to regular users, they quickly generated bad press for Apple. Notably, the bbc published multiple reports accusing the ads of spreading misinformation. One particularly unflattering example was a summary claim that Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had shot himself.
