iOS 26 Public Beta 1 Brings AI Summaries Back to News Apps With a Warning

From CNET: If you have an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone, the first public beta of iOS 26 is bringing AI notification summaries back to news and entertainment apps after being partly removed earlier this year.

Apple disabled AI notification summaries for news and entertainment apps in January. That came a few weeks after the BBC pointed out in December that the feature twisted the media organization's notifications and displayed inaccurate information.

The latest beta brings those AI summaries back with a new warning.

Before you download the beta and check out these summaries, just know this beta is not the final version of iOS 26. That means, the update might be buggy for you, and your device's battery life may be affected, so it's best to keep those troubles off your primary device. If you want to try out the beta, I recommend downloading it on a secondary device.

It's also possible that Apple could remove or further alter this feature before the final version of iOS 26 is released this fall.

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