Because I’m a little nuts, I’m running the Apple Intelligence betas on all my devices. In my opinion, Apple Intelligence still has a ways to go, and these are early days, but we’re starting to get a peek at what Apple’s been working on. The more powerful Apple Intelligence features haven’t entered beta yet, but there are already some features in this first tier of on-device Apple Intelligence features that I’m genuinely enjoying.

One of them is the message summaries. In earlier betas, they just applied to the Messages and Apple Mail apps, but now you can extend them to third-party applications. (Although you can control this in the Notification settings on a per-app basis) This means that notifications on your phone are now summarized by Apple Intelligence on-device. With less than a week of testing, I already dig it.

The summaries are more concise and include more details than the previous notifications generated by the apps. There are no teasers here. It just tells me what I need. It’s AI-based, so it occasionally gets it wrong, but we’re still in early beta, and I will give it some grace. Also, this is the worst it will ever be, and it’s already pretty good.