Apple Intelligence offers breakup text summaries [Video]

Breakup messages are always painful to receive. Even when the sender is trying their best to be gentle and mindful of your feelings.

Of course, not everyone is quite so adept at conveying difficult news in a damage-limitation parcel. Breakups can be messy, hurtful, and honest. Then there’s the small matter of practicalities: of dividing up one’s lives, our homes, possessions, keepsakes. That’s not even considering when children, pets, and shared friendship groups are involved.

A new AI tool is coming, which neatly summarises breakup texts, providing you with the key points without needing to pore over every word that your heartbreaker has sent you.

One user of the beta version of iOS 18.1 experienced first-hand the impact of Apple Intelligence’s new features. They posted a screenshot of a breakup text summary (which Mashable viewed), but has since deleted their posts and asked names to be censored so both parties can process the breakup in privacy.

When the user received a …