Apple is pausing its AI alert summary for news and entertainment apps after facing backlash for issuing inaccurate news alerts. In addition, The company is introducing changes across the board of notification summaries to ensure greater transparency.
iOS 18.3; With the latest developer previews for iPadOS 18.3 and macOS Sequoia 15.3, Apple has completely disabled notification summaries for all news and entertainment apps, and will fix them and re-enable them in a future update.
The change comes just weeks after the BBC reported. Complained to Apple. Luigi Mangione, the man charged in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, shot himself after falsely citing one of his articles.
In addition to pulling up notification summaries for selected apps; All notification summaries for users will now be shown in italics to make them easier for users, except for regular notifications. In addition, Users will be able to disable notification summaries for a specific app from their lock screen.
Summary of Notice to Users Apple will notify users that the feature is a beta feature when the feature is enabled. This warning, found in the Settings app, informs users that there may be bugs in the feature.
The changes Apple made last week aren't surprising. Release an update. To “clarify” that the text shown in the notification summary was generated by Apple Intelligence. Some suspect that this will be a new label or label format, but so far that hasn't been the case.
Public beta is expected to roll out next week, but it's unclear when iOS 18.3 will be available to the public.