How to Turn Off Apple Intelligence-Powered Notification Summaries

With the release of iOS 18, Apple introduced Apple Intelligence, an AI-powered feature designed to summarize notifications on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. While this feature aims to help manage your notifications, it sometimes generates inaccuracies, causing confusion rather than simplifying the experience. If you’re finding this feature more troublesome than helpful, here’s how you can turn it off or customize it.

What is Apple Intelligence’s Notification Summary?

Apple’s new AI-powered notification summary groups multiple notifications from the same app into one convenient card. This summary appears on your lock screen, allowing you to review all the notifications at once. You can dismiss the stack once you’ve read the summary or tap on it to check individual notifications.

However, there have been complaints regarding the feature’s accuracy. Sometimes, the AI-generated summaries fail to properly sum up the content, leading to visible inaccuracies.

How to Turn Off or Customize Notification Summaries on iPhone/iPad

To disable or adjust this feature on your iPhone or iPad:

Go to Settings > Notifications.
Tap on the Summarize Notifications tab.
You’ll have two options:
- Turn Off AI-Powered Summaries: Toggle the option at the top to turn off notification summaries for all apps.
- Turn Off for Specific Apps: Disable notification summaries for individual apps. This option gives you more control over which notifications are summarized.

For more detailed instructions, check out the official Apple support page.

How to Turn Off Notification Summaries on Mac

To turn off notification summaries on your Mac:

Click the Apple menu in the top left corner and select System Settings.
Go to Notifications.
Click the Summarize Notifications tab.
Toggle off Summarize Notifications to disable the feature completely or turn it off for specific apps.

Can You Turn Off Notification Summaries for Specific Categories?

Currently, Apple doesn’t provide an option to turn off notification summaries for specific categories such as news, productivity, shopping, travel, or finance. You can only disable it for individual apps, so you may need to adjust settings for each app that you want to customize.

To learn more about Apple’s latest efforts to improve AI-generated notifications, you can check out this article from Sr Techverse.

Apple’s Plans for Future Improvements

Apple has acknowledged the challenges with its AI-generated notification summaries and has promised to release a software update to make it clearer that these summaries are AI-generated. The update will also address the potential for errors and help users better understand when summaries might contain mistakes.

Conclusion

If you find the AI-powered notification summaries in iOS 18 more confusing than helpful, it’s simple to turn them off or customize them to suit your needs. Whether you choose to disable them entirely or manage them on a per-app basis, you have full control over your notifications.

For more updates on Apple’s ongoing changes to notification summaries and other iOS features, check out the official Apple page.