Chance Miller of 9to5Mac reports that in the latest iOS 18.3 betas, Apple has changed how it handles summaries, presumably in response to criticism of inaccurate headline summaries:
- When you enable notification summaries, iOS 18.3 will make it clearer that the feature – like all Apple Intelligence features – is a beta.
- You can now disable notification summaries for an app directly from the Lock Screen or Notification Center by swiping, tapping “Options,” then choosing the “Turn Off Summaries” option.
- On the Lock Screen, notification summaries now use italicized text to better distinguish them from normal notifications.
- In the Settings app, Apple now warns users that notification summaries “may contain errors.”
Additionally, notification summaries have been temporarily disabled entirely for the News & Entertainment category of apps.
Turning off summaries for an entire category is a quick fix, though it doesn’t address the larger long-term problem of inaccuracy. Empowering users to turn things off more easily is good, and styling them differently from regular notifications is important.
In short, this seems like a good bit of damage control, but there’s much more work to be done here—and these features should all have been in iOS 18 to begin with.
