iOS 18.3 beta 3 attempts to notify iPhone users about AI’s propensity to make errors when summarizing notifications
Apple makes changes to notification summaries in iOS 18.3 beta 3. | Image credit-PhoneArena
On the “Summarize Notifications” landing page Apple writes, “This beta feature will occasionally make mistakes that could misrepresent the meaning of the original notification.” From this landing page you can tap the blue “Choose notifications to summarize” option and you’ll be able to choose to receive these notifications from different groups of apps that are installed on your iPhone.
You can heed the warning from the page reminding you that some summaries could misrepresent the actual news, or you can disable the feature. To do that, go to Settings > Notifications and tap on “Summarize Notification.” From the Summarize Notification page, you can toggle off the feature from the top of the screen, or go through individual apps to toggle off the notification summaries.
iOS 18.3 beta 3 brings a new italicized look to Summarized Notifications. | Image credit-PhoneArena
Apple also added a new way to quickly disable notification summaries from a notification received on the Lock Screen. Let’s say you want to stop receiving such summarized notifications from Fox News. The next time you get a notification from Fox News that has been summarized, swipe left on it, tap on options, and press Turn Off Summaries.
After installing iOS 18.3 beta 3, summarized notifications will be displayed with italicized text. This will indicate that such notifications are generated by AI as opposed to regular notifications which are not italicized. Additionally, since notifications from apps in the News and Entertainment category are the most likely to be summarized incorrectly by AI, apps that fall into this segment will not offer summarized notifications indefinitely. Apple will work on a new way to create summarize notifications from such apps that do not twist the truth and will include it in a future update.
How to install iOS 18.3 beta 3 if you’re already using iOS 18 beta software on your iPhone
If you are currently running the iOS 18 beta program, go to Settings > General > Software Update and follow the directions to install iOS 18.3 beta 3.
