Your guide to Apple Intelligence summaries in iOS 18
Apple released iOS 18.2 in December, more than a month after the tech giant launched iOS 18.1. The update brought several new features to Apple Intelligence such as Genmoji and Image Playgroundof people with iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max or device from iPhone 16 range. However, iOS 18.1 gave those iPhone owners access to Apple Intelligence, which can provide summaries of multiple locations on their devices.
Read more: Your iOS 18 Cheat Sheet
with Apple Intelligence and a compatible iPhone, your device can provide you with a summary of a long email, web page, message notifications, and more. It can also show you a summary of what you’ve written in Notes and other messages.
Here’s what you need to know about summaries with Apple Intelligence on your iPhone. Note that before you can use Apple Intelligence, you must claim it for your iPhone. To do this, go to Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri and touch Get Apple Intelligence.
Resumes by mail
Parsing emails and email chains for information can be tedious, especially if you get a lot of work emails sent to your device. Fortunately, Apple Intelligence can summarize emails for you, so you don’t read too much preamble and just want to get to the heart of the message.
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To view email summaries, open Mail, select the email you want to read, and then pull the screen down to reveal a new Summarize button. Tap that and you’ll see a few lines of summary. You can change how many summary lines you see by going to Settings > Applications > Mail > View and selecting any from any line with a summary of up to five.
It is also important to note that if you use Mail categories on iOS 18.2you can only see AI summaries for emails in your Primary category. Emails in other categories will not provide you with summaries. If you use list view in mail, all your emails will have a summary available.
Read more: What you need to know about mail categories in iOS 18.2
Notification summaries
With Apple Intelligence, some of your apps can provide you with notification summaries on your lock screen, and this feature is turned on by default in most cases. This feature can summarize your notifications in a few words, but be careful while reading them. According to The BBCone of the titles of the publication is inaccurately summarized.
If you don’t want to risk reading a bad summary, you can turn this feature off. Go to Settings > Notifications > Notification Summary and tap the switches next to the apps you no longer want to receive notification summaries from. You can also tap the switch next to Summary of notifications at the top of the menu to turn off the feature for all apps.
Read more: Apple’s notification summaries can be ridiculously wrong
Web page summaries in Safari
Apple Intelligence can also summarize certain web pages in Safari. To see these summaries, open Safari and go to a web page, then look to the left side of the address bar. You should see a rectangle with some dashes below it and sparks. Tap this symbol and it brings up a menu showing the web page summary.
Note that this feature is not available on all web pages. On web pages this feature does not work yet, the symbol on the left side of the address bar will not have sparks.
Summarize text with Writing Tools
Writing tools is an Apple Intelligence menu that lets you correct, edit, or change something you’re writing. It also allows you to summarize your message or notes.
To view these summaries, highlight what you want to summarize, tap Writing tools in the pop-up menu — you may need to scroll through the options in this menu — and then tap Summary. The writing tools will show you a summary of what you’ve highlighted and let you a copy, Change and Share it this summary. These summaries can help you prepare for a presentation, allow you to quickly read through everything in Notes, or condense your own messages to just the key points.
Read more: Proofread, edit and more with Apple Intelligence writing tools
For more on iOS 18, here’s what you need to know iOS 18.2 and iOS 18.1 and ours iOS 18 cheat sheet. You can also check what your iPhone might come up with iOS 18.3.
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