Apple actually made significant adjustments to the first version’s features. For certain types of AI summary notifications that are prone to misleading issues, they’ve been temporarily disabled in the iOS 18.3 beta. Continue reading the full report on Apple’s major adjustments to the notification summary AI feature: 4 changes, including pausing news-type notifications, arriving in the iOS 18.3 beta.
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Apple makes major adjustments to its notification summary AI feature: four changes, including pausing news notifications, arrive in the iOS 18.3 beta.
Taiwan is still waiting for official Chinese-language Apple Intelligence support (see more:Apple Intelligence’s next wave of language support confirmed to arrive in April). Actually, from iOS 18.1 to the current iOS 18.3 beta, quite a few new experiences and features have been added.
This includes features that were already introduced earlier, such as Image Playground, Genmoji, Writing Tools, the ability to quickly launch visual intelligence search with the camera, as well as early access to ChatGPT integration in Chinese. All of this makes people even more excited for the day it officially starts “speaking Chinese.”
That said, since Apple Intelligence is still marked with a beta tag even in the US version at this stage, it’s to be expected that the current features will still undergo adjustments.
What’s surprising is that Apple actually went back and made major adjustments to the first version’s feature. And it’s the notification summary feature, which seems simple at first glance. It even directly targeted specific types of notifications prone to causing misleading issues, which have already been temporarily disabled in the iOS 18.3 beta.
Smart people would intuitively guess that something must have gone wrong in between, right?
Actually, if you’ve been paying attention to overseas user reviews of Apple Intelligence, you probably would have noticed long ago that quite a few people are still dissatisfied with the sorting and summarization of important iOS system notifications.
However, based on the author’s earlier impression, I only felt that the summary text seemed somewhat imprecise, and might even have omitted some important information. Yet, after more extensive testing by foreign media, it was discovered that this summary feature even mistakenly interpreted a legal proceeding regarding suspected murder as a message that the defendant had committed suicide.
This serious error (or should we say hallucination?) clearly requires Apple to take immediate corrective action to prevent further misleading issues.
Last week, they also told foreign media that they would use updates to more clearly inform users that the summaries currently seen are provided by Apple Intelligence, and that the feature is still in testing and will continue to improve.
This week, Apple, in its recent iOS 18.3 beta update, has introduced several changes to the Apple Intelligence experience. These include clearer labels and explanations when enabling AI notification summaries and when displaying AI-summarized notifications; if notification content has been rewritten by AI, it will be shown in italics.
Additionally, Apple will also temporarily disable the AI summary feature for notifications from news and entertainment apps, which involve relatively sensitive information—though it mentioned that the feature will be restored after improving accuracy. Furthermore, in the notification sidebar, you can also quickly turn off AI summaries via the “Options” option.
According to reports, the above changes have been pushed in iOS 18.3 Beta 3. It remains to be seen whether Apple can fix it to lift the restrictions on notification categories before the official version, expected to launch as early as the end of January, arrives.
That said, I have to admit that the AI notification summarization feature is indeed an iOS feature that I, as the author, was quite looking forward to. However, as things stand now, even after official Chinese language support is added in the future, everyone should approach it with a skeptical attitude. For critical information, be sure to tap into the notification or simply open the app to confirm the full details, so you don’t end up being misled.
That said, this is also the way most people have recommended using tools since generative AI first launched. All I can say is, even with what’s currently touted as the most powerful AI tool out there, I still treat it the same way. But I do hope for more reliable technology in the future — go Apple Intelligence!
Cited source:Macworld｜
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