Apple scraps new iPhone feature just three months for bombarding users with dangerous alerts
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Apple has pulled a new iPhone feature released just three months ago after users slammed it for spreading misinformation. The tech giant removed its AI notification summaries for news and entertainment apps after the system falsely reported a news article.
![[The notification read: 'Luigi Mangione shoots himself; Syrian mother hopes Assad pays the price; South Korea police raid Yoon Suk Yeol's office,' in reference to three articles that had supposedly been published by the BBC]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/17/93250885-14297409-The_notification_read_Luigi_Mangione_shoots_himself_Syrian_mothe-a-21_1737135576963.jpg)
The summary of the BBC article suggested that Luigi Mangione, 26, the alleged assassin of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, had shot himself. It read: 'Luigi Mangione shoots himself; Syrian mother hopes Assad pays the price; South Korea police raid Yoon Suk Yeol's office,' in reference to three articles that had supposedly been published by the BBC.
![[The New York Times suffered from a similar mistake in November. The AI grouped three articles together in one notification, with the first part reading 'Netanyahu arrested']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/17/93249431-14297409-The_New_York_Times_suffered_from_a_similar_mistake_in_November_T-a-22_1737135577058.jpg)
Mangione has been accused of shooting Brian Thompson, 50, at point-blank range as he was walking to a Manhattan hotel where his company was holding an investor conference on December 4. He is currently being held in a Brooklyn federal jail. Apple said it is disabling the AI-generated feature for news and entertainment while it tries to fix the issue causing the technology to fabricate information — a problem often described as 'hallucinations' within the industry.
![[The notification summaries feature will summarize texts, too, sometimes with alarming inaccuracy]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/17/93249437-14297409-The_notification_summaries_feature_will_summarize_texts_too_some-a-23_1737135577059.jpg)
Entertainment and news apps are now displaying a message that states AI-powered summaries are 'temporarily unavailable,' inside of the iPhone settings app. The feature was canceled in the iOS 18.3 beta software but is said to roll the update out to everyone by the end of the month. Even if it is just temporary, the suspension represents a blow to Apple’s efforts to bring AI to the iPhone and its other products.
![[Apple Intelligence launched on October 28, 2024, unleashing new technologies to the iPhone 15 Pro models and iPhone 16 family]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/20/94167849-14297409-image-a-28_1737144202691.jpg)
