iOS 18.3 Beta 3 Has Several Changes to Apple Intelligence Notification Summaries

Chance Miller, reporting for 9to5Mac:

Here are the changes included in iOS 18.3 for Apple Intelligence notification 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. Notification summaries will be re-enabled for this category with a future software update as Apple continues to refine the experience.

Using italics for summarized notarizations is a really clever design. It feels literary. Italics sounds like a different voice to me, which is exactly what these Apple-generated summaries are. Seems so obvious now that I’m seeing it in use, I’m kicking myself for not having suggested it.

And while I can’t blame Apple for temporarily disabling notification summaries for news apps, after just one full day on beta 3, I already miss them. The mistakes were embarrassing, no question, but overall the summaries were useful for me.

★ Friday, 17 January 2025