Apple Intelligence - missing functionality or user error?

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#318391 13-Jan-2025 20:52

Let’s imagine that I wish to use Apple Intelligence to summarise news on a web page open in Safari.

I press the screen and the closest word is highlighted and the little menu opens above the word.

That menu used to have an option that said “Select All” which would then do exactly that.

The option isn’t there on 18.1.2.

How does the user select a whole page to input into the summarise option in Writing Tools?!

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#3331064 13-Jan-2025 20:56

I’ve never seen select all on anything other than somewhere you can actually enter text

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#3331065 13-Jan-2025 21:00

Looks like you can put Safari into Reader mode to get a summary via Apple Intelligence (based on https://support.apple.com/en-nz/guide/iphone/iph60293c790/ios, don't have a compatible device myself).

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#3331068 13-Jan-2025 21:16

Why stop there? Apple Intelligence can summarise news that never happened!

Apple Intelligence falsely claimed Luke Littler had already won - BBC News

BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline - BBC News

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#3331085 13-Jan-2025 22:16

Was just playing around with this for the first time, and it seems some pages don't support the feature (some Live articles on RNZ for example wont show the option, but other more static pages will).

To do it, it seems you need to open the "Reader" option in Safari (the little icon to the left of the URL, then "Show Reader"), and you'll be given a Summarise option inside there. I didn't need to select any text to get this option.

Does seem a bit hidden - would be better to bring this option out onto the main page/menu somewhere.

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#3331094 14-Jan-2025 00:01

^ that reader function used to be available on every news article and I used to use it all the time as a way to remove all adverts and poor page formatting but the function seems to no longer work on many sites now, likely due to others using it for the same. (I just make use of an adblocker that works across my home network now so that I don't have to do anything special on each device.)

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