On some iPhones, this tool can summarize texts, emails, and more.
This autumn, Apple plans to release iOS 26, which will upgrade your iPhone with a new Liquid Glass look, a games app, and other features. However, several Apple Intelligence capabilities, such as AI-generated summaries throughout the device, were made available to users of the iPhone 15 Pro, Pro Max, or a smartphone from the iPhone 16 series when Apple updated iOS 18.1 in October.
Your iPhone may provide you a synopsis of a long email, a webpage, message notifications, and more if it has Apple Intelligence and is compatible. Additionally, it may display an overview of your Notes and other communications.Here’s all you need to know about your iPhone’s Apple Intelligence summary.
Mail Summaries
Finding information in emails and email chains can be time-consuming, particularly if you get a large volume of business emails on your device. Fortunately, Apple Intelligence can summarize emails for you so you may skip the lengthy preamble and focus on the main points of the letter.
An excerpt from an email verifying the purchase of Orville Peck’s Stampede Tour tickets
In case you were wondering, the show was fantastic.
Open Mail, choose the email you wish to read, then drag your screen down to uncover a new Summarize button. This is how you see email summaries. You will see a few lines of summary when you tap this. By selecting Settings > Apps > Mail > Preview, you may alter the number of lines of summary you see, ranging from zero to five.
It’s also crucial to remember that you can only view AI summaries for emails in your Primary category if you’re using Mail Categories. You won’t get summaries from emails in other categories. All of your emails will have a summary if you’re using Mail’s List View.
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Summaries of notifications
Some of your applications may use Apple Intelligence to display notification summaries on your lock screen; in most cases, this functionality is enabled by default. This function can provide a brief summary of your alerts, but use caution when viewing them. The BBC claims that a headline in the release had an incorrect summary.
Apple temporarily turned off these summaries for news and entertainment app alerts in response to the BBC’s accusations. With a warning concerning the substance of the summaries, the tech giant returned these summaries to certain app categories in the iOS 26 beta. The beta version allows developers and beta testers to view these summaries once more. When iOS 26 is released this autumn, Apple may change or disable this function once again because it is still under beta testing.
You can disable this function if you don’t want to take the chance of reading a poor summary right now. Toggle the applications you no longer want to get notification summaries from by selecting Settings > Notifications > Summarize Notifications. Additionally, you may disable the capability for all applications by tapping the option next to Summarize Notifications at the top of the menu.
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Safari’s web page summaries
In Safari, Apple Intelligence may also summarize certain webpages. Open Safari, navigate to a webpage, and then look at the address bar’s left side to see these summary. There should be a rectangle with some sparkles and dashes underneath it. When you tap this icon, a menu with the webpage summary appears.
Keep in mind that not all websites provide this function. This feature is not currently functional on webpages; the symbol on the left side of the address bar will not sparkle.
Use writing tools to summarize the material.
An Apple Intelligence menu called work Tools allows you to edit, revise, and proofread your work. You may also use it to condense your notes or message.
Highlight the content you wish to summarize, select Writing Tools from the pop-up menu (you may need to navigate through the alternatives), and then select Summary to see these summaries. You may copy, replace, and share the summary that Writing Tools displays based on what you have highlighted. You may use these summaries to rapidly review anything in Notes, prepare for a presentation, or condense your own communications to only the most important details.