Apple Intelligence’s New Notification Summary Feature May Be Extremely Inaccurate

Apple made Apple Intelligence generally available with iOS 18.1 last month. This latest mobile software update brings several new AI features to compatible Phone models, such as: writing tools to help you fix your emails and cleaning tool To remove objects from your photos in seconds.

You may be disappointed when you find out that it is. No AI in Siri — this will come later (iOS 18.2). And Visual Intelligence It’s not here yet either. Moving on to complaints, there is a particular AI feature on the iPhone that constantly stresses or confuses me.

These are also notification summaries for text messages.

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I know Apple Intelligence is trying to help, but…

Apple Intelligence’s new notification summary feature uses artificial intelligence to “intelligently” summarize your notifications; so you can quickly scan important details from your busiest applications. While this feature works pretty well for condensing long emails into concise points, it doesn’t always make sense with text messages.

Apple Intelligence sometimes takes things literally.

The other day I received a few text messages about how bad the walk was and how that person felt “dead.” (tired) then along with some other sparse details. Apple Intelligence summarized these few messages for me this way:

This is a text about how a trainer “killed” my friend with a tough workout.

Apple Intelligence, and more specifically the notification summaries feature, doesn’t do well with sarcasm, exaggeration, jokes, and slang. And that’s a problem, especially with how informal text messages can be. There is even a subreddit with tons of crappy notification summaries The information people get from Apple Intelligence. It takes things as they come, which can lead to some pretty terrible, inaccurate, or just plain annoying summaries for text messages.

How to turn off notification summaries for text messages

Instead of highlighting every time an annoying digest appears, I disabled notification digests for text messages. If you want to do the same, it’s very easy:

1. start Settings application
2. Go Notifications > Summarize Previews
3. Close Messages

Instead of receiving summaries of multiple text messages, you’ll see each text message on your lock screen or notification center as usual. You can disable notification summaries completely (turn off Summarize Previews) can be used for every single app on your phone, but as I mentioned before it works pretty well for emails and third-party apps.

For now, it’s doing something really great job with text messages. Have you seen Siri? This is sarcasm.