AI summary reactivates: further strange news snippets from Apple

With iOS 26 Developer Beta 4 (or Public Beta 1), Apple has reactivated a controversial Apple Intelligence function. The so-called notification summaries, which are supposed to summarize content from notifications using artificial intelligence and Apple’s in-house voice model, had caused false information and some laughs if they fed out of news apps. The iPhone group therefore decided to first switch off the function. Since then, notifications from the theme sectors “News” and “Entertainment” have no longer been generated. This will remain so for normal users until September: only iOS 26 releases the function again. However, betaters report that Apple only solves the problem of Semigut.

User decision, what is summarized

For the first time, there is the first time for the users to decide whether AI summary appears for certain app divisions or not. Apple divides this into three categories: “News & Entertainment” (news and entertainment), “Communication & Social” (communication and social media) and “All other apps” (all other apps). In addition, as soon as a summary has been published, you should be able to turn it back promptly for individual apps-whether this is only possible with news apps or all of them remained unclear at first.

Various examples that circulated on the Internet, including At the Apple Blog 9to5macHowever, show that the AI Summaries are still not perfect – and should continue to laugh. Five news from Apple’s in-house news app was summarized with the words “Everywhere it smells like cannabis; Ozzy Osbourne’s influence on heavy metal; smell and age intelligence”. Although all the points are right here, they don’t seem really meaningful.

Apple has too little data

The basic problem remains that Apple only exists very low data: a shorter notification already becomes an even shorter. The problem could only be solved if Apple Intelligence could get into the individual apps to get more details – or click the links it contains.

So far, however, neither is intended and it is difficult to implement it technically if Apple wants to keep its privacy center at AI. After all, Apple characterizes summaries a little better. But basically the following applies: Even now you shouldn’t rely on them. The BBC had even asked Apple not to reactivate it to prevent the spread of fake news.