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iPad User Guide

Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions with Apple Intelligence on iPad

With its deep understanding of language, Apple Intelligence* can help condense the information most important to you. Notifications are summarized so you can scan them for key details, such as when a group chat is particularly active. Your iPad can also determine which notifications have priority over others. And the Reduce Interruptions Focus shows you only the notifications that might need immediate attention, like a text about an early pickup from daycare.

Note: Apple Intelligence is not available on all iPad models or in all languages or regions.** To access the most recent available features, make sure you’re using the latest version of iPadOS and have Apple Intelligence turned on.

Customize notification summaries

Your iPad can summarize long or stacked notifications, making them easier to understand at a glance.

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Notifications.

  3. Tap Summarize Notifications, turn on Summarize Notifications, then tap Choose Notifications to Summarize.

  4. Tap the notifications you want to summarize, then tap Summarize Selected Notifications.

To change which notifications you want to summarize, tap the button next to an app.

Turn notification summaries on or off

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Notifications.

  3. Tap Summarize Notifications, then turn Summarize Notifications on or off.

Turn priority notifications on

Your iPad can determine which notifications have priority over others. Priority notifications appear at the top of the stack, so you can catch up on what you may have missed.

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Notifications.

  3. Tap Prioritize Notifications, then turn Prioritize Notifications on.

    To turn off priority notifications, turn Prioritize Notifications off.

To change which notifications you want to prioritize, tap the button next to an app.

You can also change settings when you receive a priority notification on the Lock Screen. When a priority notification appears, do one of the following:

  • Turn off Priority Notifications for a specific app: Swipe left, tap Options, then tap Turn Off All [app] Notifications.

  • Turn off all Priority Notifications: Swipe left, tap Options, then tap Turn Off Prioritization.

Use the Reduce Interruptions Focus

The Reduce Interruptions Focus understands the content of your notifications and shows you the most important ones, but silences notifications that are less important.

You can customize a Reduced Interruptions Focus.

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Focus.

  3. Tap 👁 the Add button
    at the top right, then tap Reduce Interruptions.

  4. Tap Customize Focus, then tap People or Apps.

Note: When you turn on Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing for any Focus, any notifications specifically allowed or silenced will always be allowed or silenced.

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