I’ve disabled this iOS 26 Apple Intelligence feature, and you probably should too

So far, it’s fair to say that Apple Intelligence hasn’t been a massive success, but there’s potential there – and one of the features that I think has the most potential is also among the first I’d turn off.

That might sound odd, but ‘potential’ is the key word there, as right now this feature just isn’t ready – even though it rolled out back with iOS 18.1, and has since been improved in iOS 26.

If you haven’t guessed, I’m talking about notification summaries, an AI tool that – as the name suggests – will summarize notifications. So for example if you get a long series of messages, the summary will condense them into a brief overview of the key points, meaning that you don’t necessarily have to read them immediately, or at all.