How to turn off Apple Intelligence Notification summaries x

In theory, the idea of notification summaries sounds great – iOS 18 uses the power of Apple Intelligence to summarize multiple notifications from a particular app into one, easy-to-read preview that you can scan with minimal effort.

Unfortunately, the result of these Notification summaries can be a little bit more dystopian than you’d like them to be, wiping out all nuance and human emotion from statements. Take the example of X.com user and software engineer Nick Spreen who found out via a Notification summary that his relationship with his girlfriend was over with the rather cold, if succinct, “No longer in a relationship; wants belongings from the apartment”.

Cases like that are rare, but Apple’s approach to summarizing your messages can often feel wrong. As TechRadar’s Senior AI writer, John-Anthony Disotto, wrote recently, “Seeing Apple Intelligence streamline my friends and family members’ messages into single lines of text that have a robotic tone freaks me out a little, especially considering that seven out of 10 times it gets the point of the messages completely wrong.”

Notification summaries set up, on an iPhone 16

The initial iOS 18 set up screen for Notification summaries (Image credit: Apple)

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