Less than six months after a of , Apple is disabling one of its : and summarizing news .
The revealed the change on Thursday in a update for developers. It an from British media outlets that Apple’s was misrepresenting news reports.
In December, the BBC was among the first to urge Apple to change its . The call came after the BBC sent a notification about Luigi Mangione, the man in the of Brian Thompson, the health executive, in New York City. Some iPhones summarized BBC news stories by saying, “Luigi Mangione himself.” He had not.
In addition to disabling news summaries, Apple said it would a warning for users who to receive notification summaries for other apps. The warning will say that the is still and that there could be .
The summaries is the in a of that have marred new A.I. . Last year, Google a chatbot that recommended people eat and glue to make pizza. Microsoft in an A.I. computer because of security . And Humane, a that $240 for a called the Ai Pin, was by tech reviewers because its system sometimes inaccurately.
The early with A.I. have questions about the ’s potential. The , which can answer questions, and write code, has been for its potential to disrupt businesses and trillions of dollars in . But some on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley have about whether A.I. will quickly enough to its .
“It’s hard, and it’s early and there’s not a proposition yet for ,” said Ben Bajarin, executive of Creative Strategies, a tech . “It is going to take time, and it’s going to be a real slow roll. No one knows yet what someone is going to at and say, ‘That’s really .’”
In a note to developers, Apple said it was to summaries of notifications for news and apps. It to make the again in a future update.
A BBC spokesman said it was pleased that Apple had heard its and decided to make a change. “Our is the of the news we deliver to , which building and ,” he .
The news of Apple’s changes was reported earlier by websites to Apple, MacRumors and 9to5Mac.
Apple was among the of tech’s biggest to enter the A.I. . Last year, the introduced iPhones with an A.I. system called Apple Intelligence. It said the system would be able to messages, offer writing and a more Siri generative .
But the weren’t on the iPhones that Apple began shipping in September. Instead, over the past few months, it has introduced some , such as to emails and the to OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot Siri.
The A.I. capabilities are only on iPhone 15 and 16 models. The has English-speaking countries, the United States, Australia and Britain. In April, Apple to for Chinese, French, German, , and other languages.
The made Apple Intelligence the of its promotions of the iPhone 16. But its of availability in some , like China, demand for the . Apple’s of the global smartphone to 18 year from 19 in 2023, according to Counterpoint Research, a that .
“There’s a lot of big questions about the to do on- A.I.,” said Bob O’Donnell, analyst at TECHnalysis Research, a . “In the run, it will unquestionably be the right way to go, but it’s not a .”