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Summaries are one of the features ofApple intelligencethat weve been treated to iniOS 18.1.

Mail and summaries

Using summaries in the Mail app is a fantastic timesaver.

Summaries working on an iPhone 16.

Tap this to get the email summary right at the top of the message.

Youll also have preview summaries of each email in your inbox.

These are visible when you look at your inbox and before you even tap on an email.

Apple Intelligence Mail summaries in iOS 18.2 developer beta

Safari summaries

One of the best applications of summaries is in theSafariweb surfing app.

All you better do is open an article inSafari.

Youre now in Reader Mode.

An Apple Intelligence break up summary

Youll see a new gray Summarize button has appeared.

Tap this on, or click it on a Mac to get your summary of the web page.

Writing Tools appears whenever you select a bit of text, in say, Mail or Safari.

Summarize Previews settings on an iPhone 16.

With your text selected choose Writing Tools from the pop-up menu.

From here you could tap Summary to get a summary of the highlighted text.

This brings up the same Writing Tools tab.

Safari Summary running on an iPhone 16

From here youll see that one of the options is Summary.

Tap this to Get an instant summary of the email youre writing.

Summaries in Notes

Finally, theres Notes.

Apple Intelligence Writing Tools on an iPhone 16 Pro Max

This has long been the default app for taking notes on all your Apple devices.

Selecting text in Notes will give you access to the same Writing Tools we discussed above.

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Notes summary on an iPhone 16