Apple released iOS 18.2 in December, more than a month after the tech giant released iOS 18.1. The update brought a handful of new Apple Intelligence features, like Genmoji and Image Playground, to people with the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max or an iPhone 16 line device. However, iOS 18.1 gave those owners more iPhone access to Apple Intelligence, which can provide summaries in multiple locations on their devices.
Learn more: Your iOS 18 cheat sheet
With Apple Intelligence and a compatible iPhone, your device can provide you with a summary of a long email, a web page, message notifications and more. It can also show you a summary of what you’ve written in Notes and other messages.
Here’s what you need to know about summaries with Apple Intelligence on your iPhone. Note that before using Apple Intelligence, you must request it for your iPhone. To do this, go to Settings > Apple Intelligence and Siri and press Get Apple Intelligence.
Summaries in Mail
Scanning emails and email chains for information can be tedious, especially if you receive a lot of business emails sent to your device. Luckily, Apple Intelligence can summarize emails for you so you don’t read a lot of preamble and just want to get straight to the heart of the message.
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To view email summaries, open Mail, choose the email you want to read, then lower your screen to reveal a new one. To summarize button. Tap on it and you will see a few summary lines. You can change the number of summary lines you see by going to Settings > Applications > Mail > Overview and choosing anything from no summary lines to five.
It’s also important to note that if you’re using iOS 18.2’s Mail Categories, you can only see AI summaries for emails in your main category. Emails from other categories will not give you summaries. If you use list view in Mail, all your emails will have a summary available.
Learn more: What you need to know about mail categories in iOS 18.2
Notification summaries
With Apple Intelligence, some of your apps can provide you with notification summaries on your lock screen, and this feature is enabled by default in most cases. This feature can summarize your notifications in a few words, but be careful when reading them. According to the BBCone of the publication’s titles was inaccurately summarized.
If you don’t want to risk reading a bad summary, you can disable this feature. Go to Settings > Notifications > Summarize notifications and tap the buttons next to the apps you no longer want to receive notification summaries for. You can also tap the button next to Summarize notifications at the top of the menu to disable the feature for all apps.
Learn more: Apple’s notification summaries may be absurdly wrong
Web page summaries in Safari
Apple Intelligence can also summarize certain web pages in Safari. To view these summaries, open Safari and navigate to a web page, then look on the left side of the address bar. You should see a rectangle with some dashes underneath and some sparkles. Tap on this symbol and it will bring up a menu displaying the summary of the web page.
Please note that this feature is not available on all web pages. On web pages this feature does not work yet, the symbol on the left side of the address bar will not have any sparkle.
Summarize text with writing tools
Writing Tools is an Apple Intelligence menu that lets you proofread, edit, or edit something you’re writing. It also allows you to summarize your message or notes.
To view these summaries, highlight what you want to summarize, tap Writing tools in the context menu (you may need to scroll through the options in this menu), then press Summary. The writing tools will show you a summary of what you have underlined and allow you to Copy, Replace And Share this summary. These summaries can help you prepare a presentation, allow you to quickly reread anything in Notes, or reduce your own posts to just the key points.
Learn more: Proofread, edit, and more with Apple Intelligence writing tools
To learn more about iOS 18, here’s what you need to know about iOS 18.2 and iOS 18.1 and our iOS 18 cheat sheet. You can also find out what might be coming to your iPhone with iOS 18.3.
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