Apple Watch's New Intelligence Notifications Feature Enhances User Experience

Apple Intelligence Will Bring A Feature To The Apple Watch That Will Make Up For The Smaller Display

Apple Intelligence is the company's latest addition to its line of services for the iPhone and additional devices, and so far, the platform has received praise across various aspects. Practically, it is one of the main selling points of the service as it has ground to operate on, like the iPhone, Mac, and iPad. However, the company is making sure that the Apple Watch does not get left behind in the category and has placed Apple Intelligence in various elements of watchOS. Apple Intelligence boasts a summarization feature that is available on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and, to some extent, the Apple Watch. You might be wondering about the use case of the feature on a wearable or how the owner of the Apple Watch will utilize it since the display on the Apple Watch is smaller than that of other devices. Well, Apple has introduced Notification summaries powered by Apple Intelligence, and it makes more sense on the Apple Watch than any other product. The Apple Watch has a small display, and reading text or other content is a nuisance. When you get a notification of a message on your Apple Watch, half of the text does not appear due to the sheer tininess of the display. This means that users do not get to see the entire message that is sent to them. This is where Notification summaries come into action as Apple Intelligence reads and understands the message and its context and provides an overview that users can quickly grasp. If the message is short, the notifications will show the full message, but if it contains more letters than the display can show, then Apple Intelligence will come in and use the company's AI tools to shorten it while providing users with the most relevant information. The change was brought forth in iOS 18.1 beta, and it works for all conversations as well. This means that the AI tools can read and understand the messages and the context behind them to provide the best possible summary of the content. This feature is perfect for the Apple Watch as it provides real-world benefits to the end user, and they would not have to get hold of their iPhones to read the full message in most scenarios. Note that the same intelligent notifications are also available on the iPhone. You must turn on Apple Intelligence for your Apple Watch to fetch these AI features from your iPhone. Are you planning to use Apple Intelligence on your iPhone?

This one Apple Intelligence feature is absolutely perfect for your Apple Watch

In all the excitement over Apple Intelligence, most of the focus has been on how Apple's artificial intelligence (AI) platform could revolutionize your iPhone and your Mac. Comparatively little attention has been directed towards its impact on the Apple Watch, but - as 9to5Mac has pointed out - a new feature in iOS 18.1 could help to change all that. When Apple Intelligence was introduced at WWDC 2024 in June, one of the key features Apple highlighted was its ability to summarize your notifications for you -the idea being that you could get a fast round-up of everything you'd missed without having to trawl through a huge list of alerts. And it's that AI feature that will really excel on all of the best Apple Watches. Right now, Apple Watch notifications usually show the first part of a message, such as an email or an SMS text. But with Apple Intelligence, the notifications will instead summarize everything in the message in a few quick words. That makes it a lot faster to catch up on what's going on, and it's also better-suited to the Watch's small screen. This all makes a lot of sense for the Apple Watch because that device is designed for quick interactions. Being alerted when someone texts you or fires off an email in your direction is an area where Apple Intelligence summaries and the Apple Watch overlap very neatly indeed, and it suggests that this could become a key use case of Apple's AI platform. One of the things I love most about my Apple Watch is how it enables me to leave my iPhone in my pocket. Instead of constantly rummaging for my iPhone every time I hear a buzz, I get important alerts sent to my wrist, which is a much faster and more convenient way to check up on alerts. With Apple Intelligence thrown into the mix, the whole experience should get even better. This summary feature is all the more interesting because Apple Intelligence isn't officially supported on the Apple Watch. Yet the way notifications work on the Apple Watch is that they are forwarded on from your iOS device. If your iPhone supports Apple Intelligence and you enable its summarization feature, notifications you receive on your Apple Watch will have already been given a dose of AI goodness before they land on your wrist, bypassing the lack of Apple Intelligence support on the Apple Watch. Better yet, you don't even need a shiny new Apple Watch to get Apple Intelligence summaries. As long as your iPhone supports Apple Intelligence - and right now that means it needs to be an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max - almost any Apple Watch will do. While you can try out notification summaries right now as long as you have the required hardware and have downloaded the iOS 18 beta, it looks like a bunch of Apple Intelligence features could miss the iOS 18 launch date in September. Still, with alert summaries already out in beta and available on your wrist, Apple Watch fans might not need much else.