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And the best of the bunch may be the arrival of Priority Notifications.
Priority Notifications is an Apple Intelligence feature so not everyone will benefit from it.
In a nutshell, Priority Notifications taps into AI to figure out which incoming messages are urgent.
Additionally, Priority Notifications will use summary capabilities to highlight the most important part of the alerts you receive.
I’ve found the previous notification summary feature to not be all that useful in highlighting important info.
So the text messages started flying to check that everyone was on the same page.
(I’ve blacked out individual names for privacy reasons.)
In that sense, Priority Notifications succeeds at its mission.
But it’s not a complete success, and the feature’s summary tools are a big reason why.
But in the moment, the summary proved unclear.
Did it mean my wife and I were trying to confirm that the dancers had a ride home?
Or that other parents were confirming the ride?
At-a-glance information is not very helpful if you’ve got to carefully parse what a summary means.
But we’ll see if that aspect of the feature improves during the iOS 18.4 beta.
Here’s how to get started.
Go to Notifications in parameters
Launch the parameters appon your iPhone andselect Notificationsfrom the menu.
Turn on Priority Notifications
Tap on Prioritize Notificationsunderneath the Apple Intelligencer header.
On the ensuing screen,slide the toggle next to Prioritize Notifications to on.
And that’s all there is to it.
