- iOS 26 -Developer Beta 4 includes the return of a controversial iPhone feature
- Message overviews for news apps are back
- This time, users have the option of enabling or disabling the summary tool
Apple has reintroduced its controversial summary of Apple Intelligence Notification for News Apps in the latest iOS 26 Beta.
The summary tool had been disabled to all news apps earlier this year after an accident, with Apple Intelligence summarizing BBC News Breaking Couthlines wrong.
Now, with the release of iOS 26 developer Beta 4, Apple has reintroduced the opportunity for users to summarize news messages using AI.
With iOS 26 public beta -release imminent, it is expected that this change will also be available to a wider user base, it just a few days.
Contrary to the last time we had the feature, users are now being greeted with multiple choices related to Apple Intelligence Notification Summaries after the update to iOS 26. You will be able to choose to disable message lists completely or choose from multiple categories such as news and entertainment, communication and social and all other apps.
Apple initially removed messages about messages to news apps as part of iOS 18.3 launched in January. Now it seems that the Cupertino-based company is happier with the roll-out of the feature that chooses to reintroduce it and give users the choice with a brief disclaimer that “Summary can change the meaning of the original headings. Check information.”
It’s back but i turned it off anyway
I have rocked iOS 26 on my iPhone 16 Pro Max for over a month now, and although I am very pleased with the recent iOS 26 developer Beta 4 update with regard to performance improvements compared to Beta 3, I am less pleased with the return of news announcement resume.
The first thing I did after trying out message summaries back in iOS 18.1 was to turn them off and while I am willing to activate the feature again for all my messages this time, I do not count my chickens until they sound.
I hope Apple has corrected some of the shiny problems with the reliability of message summaries in the latest iOS 26 beta, though I worry that the disclaimer that highlights potential problems is just a way of skirt around any rebellion, instead of keeping the feature as unreliable as it was before.
When I use it more, time will show. IOS 26 is still in beta and there is plenty of time for Apple to correct potential hiccups before the official release later this year. Until then, I give message summaries one last chance.
