I don’t understand the value of AI summaries compared to traditional truncation. While some headlines are indeed long, summarizing them will always remove context the original publisher thought was necessary. (The same is true for personal messages, but that’s not what this is about.)

Headlines are already shortened versions of entire articles. It serves seemingly no purpose at all to summarize them. If Apple wants to—for some reason—further limit the amount of text visible in a stack of notifications to three lines, the better solution is to simply show three truncated headlines, not the Apple Intelligence semicolon-separated summarized headlines.

As it stands, a lot of Apple Intelligence is poorly designed. “Beta” or not, this is irresponsible, especially coming from a company with this much power and influence.

One of the reasons we have mobile screens that are the entire front face of a device (that is, without buttons) was so we wouldn’t be so limited to display all the necessary information alongside the UI for the visible content.

Why is Apple so averse to users just scrolling? What’s actually wrong with a scrolling list of notifications? If a headline needs the full size of a notification, so be it. Scrolling is effectively infinite. The Lock Screen serves almost no other purpose than to display notifications. What space are they actually saving?

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