If you’re already used to the summaries Apple Intelligence imparts on your news, iOS 18.3 is nixing them for a time.
AI has many uses, many of which are at their best when providing assistance, such as helping summarise emails or other applications you might rely on.
However, AI is not at its best when it lies to you. The word “lie” is probably a strong one — AI doesn’t technically lie, but it can make up answers thanks to a problem known as “AI hallucinations”.
Simply put, you’ll see AI appear to make something up if it doesn’t have the answers, perceiving how the response should look if it doesn’t have enough available data.
The result is a lie, and it’s one that can convey the wrong message, so much that if relied upon, it can be damaging. Just ask a lawyer who was fined for not checking the results of an AI hallucination.
AI hallucinations are one of the problems with artificial intelligence systems at present, and it’s one causing problems with the summary technologies in use on phones. Note and email summaries on last year’s Galaxy S24 Ultra were affected, and it seems the news summaries on Apple Intelligence are dealing with it, too.
Apple has a temporary solution, however: it’ll be switching off the summaries on news and entertainment apps.
As part of iOS 18.3 rolling out now for the iPhone, as well as iPadOS 18.3 on the iPad, news summaries are going away until a later date when Apple has fixed things. News summaries were one of the most upfront AI features in iOS 18, and while they’re disappearing, they will eventually be back.
It’s not the only feature changing. There are bug fixes for Calculator and Apple Music, while Visual Intelligence will be upgraded to let you add an event by taking a picture of a poster or flyer, provided you have one of the iPhone 16 models.
The same change to news notifications is happening on macOS Sequoia, with the 15.3 update putting a stop to news summaries there for the moment. Both are rolling out now.
