{"id":249228,"date":"2026-05-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/how-to-turn-off-ai-notification-summaries-for-news-apps-on-your-iphone\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:25:08","slug":"how-to-turn-off-ai-notification-summaries-for-news-apps-on-your-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/how-to-turn-off-ai-notification-summaries-for-news-apps-on-your-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Turn Off AI Notification Summaries for News Apps on Your iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/how-to-turn-off-ai-notification-summaries-for-news-apps-on-your-iphone\/\">How to Turn Off AI Notification Summaries for News Apps on Your iPhone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/how-to-turn-off-ai-notification-summaries-for-news-apps-on-your-iphone\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/how-to-turn-off-ai-notification-summaries-for-news-apps-on-your-iphone\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnet.com\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p1\">Apple brought\u00a0<span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>AI notification summaries<\/span><\/span>\u00a0for news and entertainment apps back to Apple Intelligence-enabled\u00a0<span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>iPhones<\/span><\/span>\u00a0when the company released\u00a0<span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>iOS 26<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in\u00a0<span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>September 2025<\/span><\/span>. Apple disabled these summaries in early 2025 after the\u00a0BBC pointed out in December 2024\u00a0that the feature twisted the media organization&#8217;s notifications and displayed inaccurate information.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"Tech Tips\" height=\"617.3049645390072\" width=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p2\">What&#8217;s different about these summaries in iOS 26 is that your device&#8217;s settings warn you that the summaries might be inaccurate. Your device will note that you should verify the information in these summaries, and the best way I can think of to do that is to tap into the notification and read the story. This might defeat the purpose of the summaries for some people, but it could also ensure people read past a headline.<\/p>\n<p>You have to enable AI summaries on your device. If you do, here&#8217;s what to know about them and how to turn them back off.<\/p>\n<h2>iOS 26 warns about summary inaccuracies<\/h2>\n<p>After I updated to iOS 26, I was greeted by some splash screens asking for various permissions. One splash screen was for the AI notification summaries. When you see this screen, you have two options: <strong>Choose Notifications to Summarize<\/strong> or <strong>Not Now<\/strong>. If you tap <strong>Not Now<\/strong>, the splash screen goes away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"The first Summarize Notification menu on an iPhone screen\" height=\"1669.7313432835822\" width=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-inner-spacing-right-small g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall g-color-text-meta g-text-xxxsmall\">Apple\/Screenshot by CNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you tap <strong>Choose Notifications to Summarize,<\/strong> you&#8217;re taken to a new page where you&#8217;ll see three categories: News &#038; Entertainment, Communication &#038; Social and All Other Apps. Tapping one of these categories allows notification summaries for apps in that category. Beneath the News &#038; Entertainment category, there&#8217;s a warning that gets outlined in red if you tap it.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"The AI notification summary menu in iOS 26.\" height=\"1669.7313432835822\" width=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-inner-spacing-right-small g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall g-color-text-meta g-text-xxxsmall\">Apple\/Screenshot by CNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Summarization may change the meaning of the original headline,&#8221; the warning reads, adding, &#8220;Verify information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a warning across the bottom of the screen that reads, &#8220;This is a beta feature. Summaries may contain errors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After tapping the categories you want, tap <strong>Summarize Selected Notifications<\/strong> across the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/how-to-turn-off-ai-notification-summaries-for-news-apps-on-your-iphone\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Turn Off AI Notification Summaries for News Apps on Your iPhone https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/how-to-turn-off-ai-notification-summaries-for-news-apps-on-your-iphone\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/23fd3a26c14c0d8addd9d0e3395aaa4ffc14b17b\/hub\/2025\/08\/12\/c644cb27-484e-4ce6-8b92-169e12d45b1d\/ios-26-1.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[69,77],"class_list":["post-249228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ios","tag-ios-26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249230,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249228\/revisions\/249230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}