Eerie, clinical, and somewhat poetic: my thoughts on Apple’s text notification summaries

Further complications to the airflow

Sometime last week, I updated my phone to iOS 18.3, which seemed to activate the oft-threatened Apple Intelligence in full force. The most notable difference, upon reawakening my regrettable Cupertinoan brick, was the appearance of these new “Notification Summaries,” wherein Apple Intelligence (A.I., ha ha, get it) condenses the content of my text messa…