Apple disables AI Feature for Temporary
Beta users reported seeing a short message inside the iPhone Settings app stating that AI-powered summaries were “temporarily unavailable” for news and entertainment apps.
However, the AI summaries feature is still active for Apple device owners that have the final versions of its operating software.
Besides shutting off the AI summaries feature for the time being, the beta software update issued on Thursday, January 16, also added language to say that Apple Intelligence can produce unexpected results.
The AI-generated summaries of notifications will also be shown in italics to make them stand out from other notifications.
Additionally, Apple rolled out a new and simplified option for users to turn off AI-generated summaries of notifications from any app. The feature can reportedly be turned off by wiping left on the notification from the phone’s lock screen.
After all this, Google scaled down the feature by making it show up on lesser queries.
Apple meanwhile is working on improving the feature and will make it available again in a future update, according to the report.
This also comes after news organisations including the British Broadcasting Corp (BBC) formally asking Apple to take action.
Apple has also made other changes with the iOS 18.3 beta software update such as a clearer notice that notification summaries can produce unexpected results, and a new italicized style for summarized notifications which would differentiate it from standard notifications.
