Dysfunctional Apple Intelligence feature removed after complaints

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 halt the feature for news and entertainment notifications. This change has been made in the iOS 18.3 beta and will remain in effect until the company is able to sort out this mess. The fact that Apple Intelligence still remains incomplete — with iOS 18.4 to introduce new features as well — doesn’t bode well for the near future in my opinion. It seems like Apple’s AI dream will take a while to be fully realized.