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The new notification summary feature on Apple Intelligence uses AI to "intelligently" summarize your notifications, so you can quickly scan through key details from your busiest applications. And while the feature works pretty well for summarizing long emails into succinct points, it doesn't always work well with text messages.
Apple Intelligence takes things too literally sometimes.
The other day, I received several text messages about how bad a hike was and how that person felt "dead" (tired) after, along with some other sparse details. This is how Apple Intelligence summarized those few messages for me:
Apple Intelligence, and more specifically the notification summaries feature, just doesn't do well with sarcasm, exaggerations, jokes and slang. And that's a problem, especially with how informal text messaging can be. There's even a subreddit with a ton of terrible notification summaries that people have received from Apple Intelligence. It takes everything at face value, which can lead to some pretty horrifying, incorrect or simply annoying summaries for text messages.
Instead of stressing each time a disturbing summary appears, I disabled notification summaries for text messages. If you want to do the same, it's easy:
In place of receiving condensed summaries of multiple text messages, you'll see every individual text message on your lock screen or notification center like usual. You could completely disable notification summaries (turn off Summarize Previews) for every single app on your phone, but as I mentioned earlier, it works pretty well for emails and third-party apps.
For now, it's doing a really great job with text messages. See Siri? That's sarcasm.
Source: cnet.com