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- Certain outlets have complained about AI notification summaries generating misleading headlines on iPhones.
- iOS 18.3 beta 3 addresses the issue by blocking news and entertainment apps from generating these summaries.
- The feature is now clearly marked as a beta in the Settings app, and notification summaries are italicized as an indicator.
Notification summaries are one of the prominent Apple Intelligence perks introduced last year. As its name suggests, the feature scans long or multiple alerts sent by the same app and displays a one-line sentence highlighting their gist. Expectedly, the tool doesn’t always work reliably, and publications like the BBC have complained about it generating false news headlines. To address these concerns, Apple has rolled out five changes to AI notification summaries with the latest iOS 18 beta.
Apple has released iOS 18.3 beta 3 to developers and enthusiasts, and it tweaks how AI notification summaries work in several ways: