How to turn off Apple Intelligence Notification summaries

In theory, nan thought of notification summaries sounds awesome – iOS 18 uses nan powerfulness of Apple Intelligence to summarize aggregate notifications from a peculiar app into one, easy-to-read preview that you tin scan pinch minimal effort.

Unfortunately, nan consequence of these Notification summaries tin beryllium a small spot much dystopian than you’d for illustration them to be, wiping retired each nuance and quality emotion from statements. Take nan illustration of X.com personification and package technologist Nick Spreen who recovered retired via a Notification summary that his narration pinch his woman was complete pinch nan alternatively cold, if succinct, "No longer successful a relationship; wants belongings from nan apartment".

Cases for illustration that are rare, but Apple’s attack to summarizing your messages tin often consciousness wrong. As TechRadar’s Senior AI writer, John-Anthony Disotto, wrote recently, “Seeing Apple Intelligence streamline my friends and family members’ messages into azygous lines of matter that person a robotic reside freaks maine retired a little, particularly considering that 7 retired of 10 times it gets nan constituent of nan messages wholly wrong.”

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When you first group up Apple Intelligence connected your iPhone aliases Mac you’ll beryllium asked to take which notifications to summarize. It only gives you groupings of types of apps here. Your prime is betwixt News & Entertainment, Communications & Social, All Other Apps, and None.

The bully news nevertheless is that erstwhile you are up and moving you do person a adjacent grade of power complete what Apple Intelligence summarizes, moreover down to nan peculiar app.

How to move disconnected Notifications summaries

1. Find Notifications

Open up nan Settings app past scroll down until you find Notifications. It’s astatine nan apical of nan 3rd main group of settings.

2. Summarize Previews

Inside nan Notifications settings, pat connected Summarize Previews, which is adjacent nan apical of nan Notifications settings.

3. App settings

You tin move disconnected each Summarize Previews astatine nan apical of this settings screen, aliases scroll down and move them connected and disconnected for individual apps. It’s worthy noting that if you person Notifications turned disconnected for an app it won’t look here. You’ll request to find nan app successful Notifications, and past move connected 'Allow Notifications' first.

The first activity of Apple Intelligence

Notification Summaries are conscionable 1 portion of nan first activity of Apple Intelligence features coming arsenic portion of iOS 18. Instead of releasing them each successful 1 go, Apple is drip-feeding them retired successful a bid of releases which won't beryllium complete until adjacent twelvemonth erstwhile we get a afloat Apple Intelligence-powered Siri pinch ChatGPT integration. Don't forget, to bask Apple Intelligence you will request a compatible Apple device.

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