Dysfunctional Apple Intelligence feature removed after complaints [Video]

Though Apple Intelligence is a major selling point for the iPhone 16, it wasn’t available on Apple’s newest phones at launch. Following that Apple has been bringing its promised AI features to iOS 18 in parts but some of them don’t work as expected. As such the AI notification summaries that were touted at the iPhone 16 launch have been removed for the time being.

Apple Intelligence needs a lot of work and its notification summary feature in particular has fallen flat on its face on multiple occasions. The summarization often displays completely inaccurate information or omits crucial context. I’ve seen screenshots of AI summaries where users were mistakenly told that one of their parents had passed away or that their partner was breaking up with them. These incidents are so common that there’s a dedicated online community where users share their own notification summarization mishaps.

In response to the overwhelming criticism of these summaries Apple has decided to …