So right after we finished recording last week, Mayo, or basically right after we finished

recording, Apple released iOS 18.3 beta 3, and it does include those changes to notification

summaries that we talked about. So this is in response to the complaints from the BBC about

inaccurate notification summaries. And there are basically five different changes Apple has made

in 18.3.

The biggest one being that notification summaries have been temporarily disabled entirely for the news and entertainment category of apps.

Apple says they'll be reenabled for this category with a future software update as they continue to make tweaks to that experience.

Then when you enable notification summaries in 18.3, it'll make it clear that the feature is a beta.

You can disable notification summaries for a particular app directly from the lock screen,

so you don't have to go all the way into settings to turn off summaries for a specific app if you don't like the summaries that that Apple intelligence gives you for those notifications.

On the lock screen, notification summaries now use italicized text to better distinguish them from

normal notifications. And in the settings app, there's another warning that notification

summaries, quote, may contain errors.

I guess in terms of things that are shipping in 18.3, that change to notification summaries to use italicized text is probably the big one.

And I have mixed feelings on it.

I think it certainly looks different, and it does a good job of distinguishing them from non-sumarized notifications.

But maybe this is just me.

But I find italicized text really hard to read, particularly at a glance.

And while it separates them from normal notifications, I don't necessarily think the

italicized design does a good enough job to make it clear. It doesn't really tell you why

they're italicized, right? It just looks like, just looks like a different design. I don't know if

that makes sense, but I don't think it gets the point across quite well enough.

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