Apple Intelligences notification summaries have been causing a stir for unintentionally creating fake news, as especially highlighted by the BBC. Apple is planning a tweaked UI, but heres why that doesnt go far enough, and what the real fix could be.BBC highlights AIs failures with notification summariesBBC News has raised serious concerns not once, but twice about Apple Intelligence botching news summaries and delivering fake news as a result.Examples have included claims that:a man had committed suicide, despite still being alivean athlete won a competition that hadnt even happened yetanother athlete had come out as gay, which was also falseApple has promised to ship a software update that will further clarify when the text being displayed is summarization. Essentially, a UI change is coming, and Apple will continue making ongoing backend revisions to the beta feature.If youve used Apple Intelligences notification summaries, youve probably seen some misinformation too.In most cases, its not as big a deal if an iMessage or email is summarized incorrectly. If youre like me, youll probably read the original message anyways.With news headlines, for many of us, reading more than just the notification often doesnt happen.Thats why I think Apple should exclude news apps from AI summaries by default.The key fix needed for Apple Intelligence summariesRecently, Jason Snell at Six Colors outlined his own proposed fixes for this AI problem. I agree with Snell that Apples UI fix doesnt go far enough. And hey, maybe the companys confident it can solve this problem with its continuous invisible improvements.But theres a more effective fix, at least for the short-term.Apple should disable summaries for news apps. Users can turn them back on if theyd like, but for news apps only, the feature should have a special opt-in requirement.Why? Because of the fact that many people only read headlines, not full articles. But also becausevery importantlyheadlines are already summaries.News editors have already carefully chosen the words they want to use in a headline to summarize an articles contents.Apple doesnt need to mess with that by generating its own separate summary of the summary.In BBC News examples, the problematic summaries were the result of Apple Intelligence summarizing a stack of different news notifications. Each individual notification kept its original contents, but the users saw the summarized stack.This is a useful feature, Ill admit. It combines several news blurbs into a single alert so you can get a quick update on whats happened.But losing this summarized stack is a small inconvenience to suffer in exchange for ensuring news alerts remain accurate.Apple Intelligence fake news: Wrap-upSo far, Apple has avoided any real controversy with its image generation features in iOS 18.2. Thats a big accomplishment that many of its competitors couldnt achieve. But AI news summaries are starting to provide a similar headache.In 6 months or a year, when Apple has gotten its AI models up to snuff and out of beta, maybe news app summaries can come back by default. For now though, one key change would make this problem go away. And I suspect you wont find many users who miss itespecially if the opt-in option remains.How do you think Apple should fix its AI summaries problem? Let us know in the comments.Best iPhone accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel