Everything you need to know about Apple Intelligence summaries and how to use them

Summaries are 1 of nan features of Apple intelligence that we’ve been treated to successful iOS 18.1. While nan large hitters for illustration Image Playground and Genmoji are owed to get successful iOS 18.2 successful December, we tin bask immoderate Apple Intelligence features, for illustration summaries, correct now.

Provided you person a compatible Apple device and person turned connected Apple Intelligence, Summaries look successful a number of places successful nan latest type of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Sequoia, truthful present we’ll show you really to entree them successful each spot Apple has hidden them away, making judge you don’t miss retired connected anything.

Mail and summaries

Using summaries successful nan Mail app is simply a awesome timesaver. Just unfastened a caller email successful Mail, resistance nan surface down (on an iPhone aliases iPad), and a caller Summarize fastener springs into view. Tap this to get nan email summary correct astatine nan apical of nan message. The summary is astir 5 to six lines and tin thief you determine if it’s worthy reference nan full email. Once your summary has been created it lives forever, truthful if you spell backmost to your inbox, past return to nan email you tin spot it again.

You’ll besides person preview summaries of each email successful your inbox. These are visible erstwhile you look astatine your inbox and earlier you moreover pat connected an email. On an iPhone aliases iPad, you tin alteration nan magnitude of nan preview to up to 5 lines successful Settings>Mail>Preview.

Messages and summaries

When it comes to Message alerts connected your Lockscreen, you tin now spot Notification summaries of each connection you person acknowledgment to Apple Intelligence. These summaries person received a spot of antagonistic press precocious erstwhile personification received a breakup matter that had been ruthlessly summarised by Apple Intelligence, but they tin beryllium a bully abstraction saver, and thief you get nan gist of a speech without having to publication each text.

You mightiness not for illustration these Notification summaries for Messages, however, truthful to move them disconnected spell to Settings>Apps>Messages and toggle off Summarize Previews.

Notification summaries successful 3rd statement apps

Notification summaries activity successful different apps connected your fastener surface too, for illustration Meta's Messenger and nan Slack app. Again, to power really these are displayed you request to spell into Settings>Apps and find nan app successful question, past toggle Summarize Previews connected aliases off.

To set which apps look connected your Lockscreen, spell to Settings>Notifications and find nan app you want, past prime wherever Alerts should beryllium displayed.

Safari summaries

One of nan champion applications of summaries is successful nan Safari web browser. You tin get Apple Intelligence to summarize a website article earlier you publication it, which will prevention you clip if you determine you’re not willing successful it. All you request to do is unfastened an article successful Safari. To get to nan Summarize action it needs to beryllium a web page wherever nan words “Reader Available” look successful nan paper bar, indicating that Reader Mode is available.

Now (on an iPhone aliases iPad) pat nan icon connected nan acold near of nan paper barroom that brings up different menu, and pat nan bluish ‘Show Reader’ button. You’re now successful Reader Mode. You’ll spot a caller grey Summarize fastener has appeared. Tap this on, aliases click it connected a Mac to get your summary of nan web page.

The latest Apple Intelligence update gave america Writing Tools, which dwell of proofreading, summarizing, and rewriting tools. Writing Tools appears whenever you prime a spot of text, successful say, Mail aliases Safari. With your matter selected take Writing Tools from nan pop-up menu. From present you tin pat Summary to get a summary of nan highlighted text.

Writing Tools are besides accessible erstwhile you pat nan Apple Intelligence icon (a multicolor circle/star) astatine nan apical of nan on-screen keyboard erstwhile typing an email connected an iPhone aliases iPad. This brings up nan aforesaid Writing Tools tab. From present you’ll spot that 1 of nan options is Summary. Tap this to Get an instant summary of nan email you’re writing.

Summaries successful Notes

Finally, there’s Notes. This has agelong been nan default app for taking notes connected each your Apple devices. Selecting matter successful Notes will springiness you entree to nan aforesaid Writing Tools we discussed above. In addition, each your transcripts of recorded telephone calls and transcribed sound memos now find their measurement to Notes, and tin beryllium summarized successful nan aforesaid way.

That’s each for now, until nan adjacent update

That’s each of nan features of summaries successful Apple Intelligence covered for now. The adjacent large update to Apple Intelligence will beryllium pinch iOS 18.2 successful December, which should present much Apple Intelligence features for illustration Image Playground and Genmoji into people’s hands for nan first time.

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