On MondayWe have reported on the growing criticism of Apple’s summarized notification function, which is part of Apple Intelligence. The company has now addressed this problem, indicating that it recognizes the concerns of many users, according to Ars Technica.
Introduced in iOS 18.1, the summary notifications function aims to help users manage notification overload by grouping alerts and only by displaying essential details. It was at this last moment that the BBC and others launched their criticism. These notifications, in particular new alerts, do not provide precise information in a coherent manner.
For example, summary notifications recently declared that the great tennis Rafael Nadal was released while the gay and dart player Luke Littler had won the PDC world championship. None of these events occurred.
On this question, Apple says that it plans to issue a software update to improve functionality. He says:
“Apple Intelligence is designed to help users get daily tasks done more quickly and easier. This includes optional notification summaries, which provide users who choose to opt for information from the applications and to exploit details of each time they wish. These are identified by a summary icon, and the original content is a quick tap. Apple Intelligence’s features are in beta version and we are continuously making improvements using user comments. A software update in the coming weeks will clarify more when the displayed text is the summary provided by Apple Intelligence. We encourage users to report a concern if they consider an unexpected notification summary. »»
Apple has not provided a calendar for the moment when a software correction is published or how the problem will be solved.
As Ars Technica rightly notes it, Apple’s notification summaries use large language models (LLM) to predict the segments of words according to the previous text. However, these models do not really understand the content they summarize. Although the models can be trained to improve precision, some errors will always persist. This is mainly due to the ever -increasing number of summaries generated every day, which is difficult to manage.
The wait is that Apple addresses the problems with notifications summarized in time, and it is pleasant to see how speed has responded to concerns. As the functionality is refined, we will undoubtedly hear more about this in the weeks and months to come.
Apple Intelligence and summary notifications are available on certain Apple devices, including IPhone 16 series And iPhone 15 pro.