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iOS 26 Beta 4 Reintroduces Notification Summaries for News Apps

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With the fourth betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, visionOS 26, and watchOS 26, Apple has re-enabled Apple Intelligence Notification Summaries for apps in the News and Entertainment categories.

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After installing the betas, there is a pop up for enabling notification summaries across these and other categories. Users can opt-in or opt-out of notification summaries on a per-category basis.

Apple says that it has improved notification summaries in iOS 26, addressing issues that could cause confusion with news headlines.

All notification summaries for News and Entertainment apps that are generated with Apple Intelligence will be italicized and will be annotated with a "Summarized by Apple Intelligence" notice.

Apple plans to further test and refine Apple Intelligence summaries for news articles during the rest of the iOS 26 beta testing process, and there is an option for users to report a concern directly if there is an issue with a notification summary.

Notification Summaries for the News and Entertainment category were removed in the iOS 18.3 update in January, following criticism over some misleading news headlines created by Apple Intelligence.

Apple Intelligence Notification Summaries are available on devices that support Apple Intelligence. The feature groups multiple notifications from the same app together, providing a one-sentence overview of the content. The short summaries were causing issues when AI pulled the wrong details from news stories, but Apple's improvements should help fix the issue.



Article Link: iOS 26 Beta 4 Reintroduces Notification Summaries for News Apps
 
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  • Haha
Reactions: antiprotest
lol, incorporating RLHF right into the beta.I guess that's one way to compensate for much of your top AI talent leaving.
 
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annotated with a "Summarized by Apple Intelligence" notice
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Regardless of whether the summaries are accurate or not, this is an important improvement.

Apple should never have used unlabeled summarized text in a notification that looks & says it's from a third-party developer, effectively putting words in their mouths. Allowing your customers to get potentially-inaccurate information via your brand is a serious reputational risk for companies.
 
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I greatly enjoy Claptrap from Borderlands summarising my news, so I approve of this move.
 
I can probably hold my breath longer but we’ll see, maybe they got it right :p
 
Good to see this but wonder whether it has really improved. Think there might still be some issues and will take some more time for it to be perfected.
 
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I don’t care, I deleted the News app when it first appeared since it doesn’t support dynamic adjustment of text size.
 
Classic "solution looking for a problem" in my opinion. At least it's easy turn it off on first launch.
 
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