Everything New in iOS 18.3 Beta 3

Apple provided the third beta of iOS 18.3 to developers today, and while the betas have so far been light on new features, the third beta makes some major changes to Notification Summaries and also tweaks a few other features.

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Notification Summary Changes

Apple made multiple changes to Notification Summaries in response to complaints about inaccurate summaries of news headlines.

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  • For now, summaries for apps in the News and Entertainment category have been disabled. Apple Intelligence will no longer summarize news notifications, but this is temporary and will be reinstated in a future update when Apple has made some changes.
  • In the Settings app, the Notifications Summaries section makes it clear that this is a beta feature and that errors are a possibility.
  • During setup, Apple has added the following wording for Notification Summaries: "Summarization may change the meaning of the original headlines. Double check important information."
  • Summarized notifications are now shown with the text italicized to distinguish them from standard notifications.
  • Notification Summaries can be disabled on a per-app basis directly from the Lock Screen by swiping on a notification and tapping on the "Options" button to get to an interface for turning off summaries.

All of the Notification Summary changes have been made in iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3.

Camera Control

On iPhone 16 models, the Camera Control section in the Settings has a renamed toggle. The toggle for AE/AF lock has been renamed to "Lock Focus and Exposure," which would be clearer to non-photographers who do not know what AE/AF Lock is.

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Lock Focus and Exposure is an optional setting that lets you lock your settings with a light press and hold on the Camera Control button, and it is meant to work similarly to a DSLR camera.

Messages

In the Messages sidebar that's accessible by tapping on the "+" button in any conversation, there is now a Genmoji entry, and tapping it takes you to the ‌Genmoji‌ creation interface.

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This is simply another way to get to the ‌Genmoji‌ creation tools, which have previously been available by tapping on the emoji keyboard button.

PDF Editing

When editing a PDF through the screenshot interface, if you crop content out, Apple now provides a warning that cropped content is not removed from the PDF.

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"Content outside the cropped area won't be visible in most PDF viewers, but it can be made visible in some apps," reads the message.

More Features

Know of something new in the latest iOS 18.3 beta that we left out? Let us know in the comments below.

Related Roundups: iOS 18, iPadOS 18
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Top Rated Comments

Take Flight Avatar
14 weeks ago

Interesting they removed notification summaries for now. AI still has a long way to go before being mature. Hardly unexpected.
The notification summary thing is a solution looking for a problem. Seemed like a forced attempt to apply AI wherever possible.

Notifications are inherently already brief summaries of things that were written as intended.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
surfzen21 Avatar
14 weeks ago
I wish I could whitelist certain email senders or email chains from summary. I doubt Apple would implement this granular level of control for us users though.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
HylianKnight Avatar
14 weeks ago

Genmoji should be available from every menu in the settings, but I digress.

It seems Apple doesn't really want people to use the phone since fixing a terrible battery performance is not a priority.
YMMV, but my battery has been great. No complaints.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Avenged110 Avatar
14 weeks ago

I wish I could whitelist certain email senders or email chains from summary. I doubt Apple would implement this granular level of control for us users though.
I'm still waiting to be able to blacklist domains or filter junk mail before applying sorting rules account-wide on iCloud.com – things which seem like pretty basic functions of email to me. I'm not optimistic.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
TroyBoy30 Avatar
14 weeks ago
groundbreaking stuff!
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
centauratlas Avatar
14 weeks ago
I’d like the option to block or filter calls that don’t have the checkmark: “calls with a check mark have been verified by the carrier.” Ditto for texts.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)