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How to enable Safari push notifications on iPhone or iPad

iOS 16.4 lets you optionally receive Safari push notifications, but the process isn't straightforward.

iPhone users can add websites to their iOS 17 home screens as progressive web apps, and essentially turn sites into standalone apps. However, there are a few features typically reserved for iOS apps, and one of those is push notifications. If you do want to receive push notifications from a website, there is a workaround in the Settings app that involves flipping a WebKit flag. This gives web apps the ability to send push notifications through Safari, as long as the website natively supports browser notifications. Although Apple announced this functionality in 2022 and shipped it in 2023, it's still considered an experimental feature, so you'll have to follow the steps below to use them.

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How to enable push notifications in safari.

If you have a recent iPhone , or an iPad running version 16.4 or later, you can follow the steps below to enable Safari push notifications for specific websites. By doing so, you will receive alerts similar to those of native iOS apps, helping you know when your favorite websites publish timely content.

1. Open the Settings app on iOS 17.

2. Scroll down to the Safari tab, and tap on it.

3. Find the Advanced tab at the bottom of the screen and press it.

4. Tap the Feature Flags tab.

5. You will see a long list of WebKit flags organized in alphabetical order. Look for Notifications and flip the toggle them on.

How to add a website to your iOS Home Screen

After that, you'll need to manually add each website you'd like to receive notifications from to your Home Screen. Here's how:

1. Launch the Safari app and visit the website you'd like to receive push notifications from.

2. Tap on the Share button in the middle of the bottom bar

3. Choose Add to Home Screen .

4. Optionally rename the web app, then tap Add in the top right corner.

5. It will now appear on your Home Screen as a native app. Launch the newly-added web app.

6. Find the website's notifications settings and enable push notifications.

7. iOS will ask for your permission to enable them. Tap Allow to finish.

Now, the web app will be able to notify you as long as you keep it on your Home Screen. If you delete it, then the permission is revoked automatically, and you won't be able to receive alerts from it until you add it again.

Should you use push notifications from websites on iPhone?

As you can see, the process to enable Safari push notifications on iOS and iPadOS is more complex when compared to macOS because you need to add the web app to the Home Screen for it to work. On new Macs , you can just allow or deny website permissions without needing to bookmark them in any way. Regardless, it can be done now on newer versions of iOS 16 or later. It's useful, but be sure to choose wisely which websites you give access to notifications in Safari. If you give permission to the wrong website, your iPhone could quickly be cluttered with spam.

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Safari User Guide

• Change your home page
• Import bookmarks, history and passwords
• Make Safari your default web browser
• Go to websites
• Find what you’re looking for
• Bookmark web pages that you want to revisit
• See your favourite websites
• Use tabs for web pages
• Pin frequently visited websites
• Play web videos
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• Keep a Reading List
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• Download items from the web
• Share or post web pages
• Add passes to Wallet
• Save part or all of a web page
• Print or create a PDF of a web page
• Customise a start page
• Customise the Safari window
• Customise settings per website
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Customise website notifications in Safari on Mac

If you let websites send you notifications, each notification appears in the top-right corner of your screen. You get notifications from websites even if they’re not open — and even if Safari isn’t open.

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Use Siri suggestions

If you let Siri make suggestions in Safari and you book an event on a website, such as a dinner reservation, you can quickly add it to Calendar.

Accept a Siri suggestion: Click the notification to review the event, then click Add to Calendar.

Respond to a notification from a website

Click the notification to go to the site.

See all of your recent notifications

Click the date or time at the right end of the menu bar, or swipe left with two fingers from the right edge of your trackpad, then click Notifications.

If you’re away from your Mac, you can see all the notifications you missed when you get back.

Change preferences for notifications

Stop receiving notifications from a website: Choose Safari > Preferences, click Websites, then click Notifications. Find the website in the list, then select Deny.

Open Notifications preferences for me

Stop seeing requests for permission to send you notifications in Safari: Choose Safari > Preferences, click Websites, then click Notifications. Deselect “Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifications”.

From now on, when you visit a website that wants to send you notifications, you aren’t asked.

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Safari on mac, iphone, and ipad will allow web notifications.

Apple will finally allow websites to send notifications on iPhone and iPad.

Apple's Safari web browser has lagged behind some features in recent years, especially with background services. After years of waiting, it seems like Safari will finally support web push notifications on all platforms.

Following today's WWDC event , Apple published a post on the WebKit Blog explaining what's new in the Safari 16 Beta. Perhaps the most surprising addition is Web Push support, which is already functional on the macOS Ventura beta release. The feature will allow web sites and web apps to send push notifications, even when they are not open.

"Web Push is coming to Safari 16 on macOS Ventura," Apple said in the blog post. "This lets you remotely send notifications to users of your websites and web apps --- and deliver those notifications even when Safari isn't running. It uses the same combination of web standards you may be familiar with from other browsers: Push API and Notifications API, along with Service Worker."

Similar to Firefox , Safari will only allow a website to show a prompt to enable notifications after you've interacted with the page --- for example, you won't see the popup message right after a page loads, but you might see one after you click a link or button. That won't stop the pages from showing buttons in the page for enabling notifications, but it will prevent Safari itself from spamming you.

Safari on macOS has technically supported push notifications since Mac OS X 10.9, but Safari's notifications worked differently than push notifications other browsers --- sites had to register for a paid Apple developer license, and the technology for sending alerts wasn't similar at all. This new implementation uses the same push standard that every other browser uses, and sites don't have to pay for Apple developer accounts to provide visitors with notifications.

Importantly, Apple says Web Push will arrive on the iPhone and iPad sometime in 2023. That's a massive win for web apps on mobile Apple devices --- you could always use alternative browsers on Mac if you needed push notifications, but Apple doesn't allow third-party browser engines on iPhone and iPad. Web Push will make Progressive Web Apps better than ever on iPhone and iPad, as long as Apple doesn't introduce any strange limitations or missing features.

Source: WebKit Blog

How to manage web notifications with Mac Safari

Beginning with OS X Mavericks Apple added the ability for web sites to push updates directly to your desktop. Such updates appear in Notification Center, and when you click on them, Safari will open and load the page. But what happens when you receive notifications you don't want anymore? Here's how to manage which sites can ping you and which can't.

First of all, if you're new to OS X Mavericks or you've never used web notifications, read up on how to get started:

• How to get notifications from your favorite websites with Notification Center and OS X Mavericks

Maybe you've seen a message from Safari that looks like this:

And maybe you've clicked the Allow button. Or maybe you've clicked the Don't Allow button. Now you've changed your mind. You want those notifications. Or you're sick of them. Either way, here's how to take care of them.

To manage web notifications with Safari

• Double-click the Safari icon
• Click the Safari menu and select Preferences . (Alternately, you can hold down the command button and type , .
• Click the Notifications button in Safari's preferences
• Select the site you'd like to change the status of.
• Click the Allow or Deny button as you'd like.

You can also remove sites from the list, though if you do, Safari will ask you the next time you visit the site if to receive notifications from it.

If you don't want Safari to ever ask you about web site notifications, uncheck Allow websites to ask permission to send push notifications .

You can also change the way Notification Center will inform you of new push notifications from web sites.

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To change Safari web notifications

• Click the  menu.
• Select System Preferences...
• Click on Notifications .
• Click on Safari .

Safari can alert you with banners which appear in the upper-right corner of the screen and automatically go away after a few seconds, or alerts that stay on the screen until you manually dismiss them.

Get notified!

Hopefully these tips helped you get control of Safari's web notifications. If you have anything else to add or if you have any questions, let me know in the comments.

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iOS 16 enables web push notifications and extension syncing with Safari update

iOS 16 was announced today at WWDC 2022 with several new features, including a completely redesigned lock screen with widgets and enhancements to several system apps. Specifically speaking about Safari, Apple’s web browser will now support web push notifications, extension syncing, and more with the update.

One of the biggest complaints about the iOS version of Safari is that it lacks push notifications for web apps, so websites are unable to notify a user if they’re running Safari in the background – although this is already possible on the Mac.

Now with iOS 16, this will become a reality. The first signs of push notifications for web apps appeared in iOS 15.4 , but the feature never worked since it was labeled as “experimental.” Now, according to Apple’s website , iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 will finally enable web push notifications – but there’s a catch.

Apple says the feature will come in 2023 with a future update of iOS 16, so it won’t be available at launch. At least the company has now finally confirmed that it is working on web push notifications.

Apple’s web browser is also getting extension syncing support, so that you can have the same extensions enabled on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It also supports image translation using Live Text, new password settings for websites, and shared Tab Groups. iOS 16 also adds FIDO support to Safari , so users can sign-in with Touch ID or Face ID instead of an alphanumeric password.

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How to manage Safari notifications on Mac

Keep up with your favorite sites ... or don't

Back in Mac OS X Mountain Lion , Apple added a new feature called Safari Web Notifications. This new feature allowed users to subscribe to website updates, then receive push notifications right inside of Notification Center whenever website content updated.

This can be a great feature, or, in some cases, an annoying one. In this article, we'll show you how to manage your Safari Web Notifications or even get rid of them entirely.

Subscribing to a web notification

To subscribe to a web notification in Safari, you'll first need to visit a website that allows web notifications. CNN.com is a great example of a site that provides useful notifications to Safari users. When visiting the website, you'll be prompted to subscribe or choose to not be asked again. Clicking subscribe will add your Mac to the subscription list, and you'll begin receiving push notifications on your Mac when website content updates or whenever CNN decides to send out breaking news updates.

Viewing and removing web notification subscriptions

If you wish to view the websites that you're currently subscribed to, or you change your mind about not wanting notifications, then open Safari and open the preferences (press Command + , [comma] for a shortcut), then click on the notifications tab. A list of all the websites that have offered you notifications will be displayed. Here, you can view all of the sites that you're subscribed to and revoke notifications from any of these sites if you wish. You can also click on "Allow" to ensure that a particular site can send you push notifications. Additionally, you can remove any websites from this list by selecting them and clicking "Remove" or remove them all by clicking the "Remove All" button.

Disable web notification subscriptions

If you no longer wish to be asked to subscribe to notifications when visiting websites, then perform these steps:

1. Open Safari.

2. Navigate to Preferences > Notifications.

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3. Click "Remove All."

4. Uncheck the option for "Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifications."

This will remove all current subscriptions, plus keep websites from asking if you'd like to subscribe in the future.

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How to Manage Website Push Notifications in Safari for OS X

Control which notifications you receive from websites

What to Know

• In the Safari menu, select Preferences > Websites . Choose Notifications in the left pane.
• Use the menu next to any website that has requested permission to send notifications to allow or deny the request.
• Clear the box next to Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifications to prevent sites from asking permission.

This article explains how to manage website push notifications in Safari for OS X. It includes information on viewing notification-related settings in the Notification Center . This information applies to Safari 9.x and above on Mac OS X.

Change the Safari Permissions

A website must ask your permission before it can push notifications to your desktop, usually as a pop-up question when you visit the site. While useful, these notifications can prove unwieldy and intrusive.

Here's how to deny or allow permissions for push notifications:

Go to the Safari menu and select Preferences .

Select Websites .

Click Notifications in the left menu pane.

The right side of the window contains a list of the sites that asked for permission to send you notifications. Use the menu to the right to either allow or deny those requests.

The  Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifications option is enabled by default. This option allows websites to ask you if you want notifications, usually when you first visit their site. To disable this option and prevent sites from asking permission to show alerts, clear the check box.

To reset a site's permissions, select it and click Remove . The next time you visit the URL, it asks for permission again, assuming you left the previous option active.

Change Notification Settings

To view more notification-related settings in the Notification Center:

Open System Preferences either by clicking its icon in the Dock or selecting it from the Finder's Apple menu.

Click Notifications .

Select  Safari  from the list of applications in the left menu pane.

Notification preferences specific to the browser appear on the right side of the window. To turn off all notifications, turn off the Allow Notifications from Safari toggle switch.

The Safari alert style section contains three options, each accompanied by an image.

• None : Disables Safari alerts from displaying on the desktop while keeping notifications active in the Notification Center.
• Banners : Informs you when a new push notification is available.
• Alerts : Notifies you and includes relevant buttons. Alerts stay on the screen until you dismiss them.

Below this section are five more settings, each accompanied by a check box and enabled by default. These settings are as follows:

• Show notifications on lock screen : When enabled, push notifications generated by your allowed websites display when your Mac is locked.
• Show notification preview : Specify whether macOS shows previews (which contain more detail about the alert) always or only when the computer is unlocked.
• Show in Notification Center : Leave this option on to see alerts you might have missed by opening the Notification Center in the upper-right corner of the Finder.
• Badge app icon : When enabled, the number of Safari alerts to be viewed displays in a red circle overlaying the browser's icon on the Dock.
• Play sound for notifications : When enabled, an audio alert plays each time you receive a notification.

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How to Enable or Disable Push Notifications in Safari Mac?

Sending notifications is a simple way for website owners to send the latest information to the reader. There are different types of notifications that a website can show when you visit the page. Though notifications are useful to get information, most of the time they annoying due to the bad user experience. Since, website owners push the notifications and show anytime, it makes sense for readers to block them to have distraction free reading. In this article, we will explain how to manage push notifications in Safari browser on your Mac.

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Mac Safari and Notifications

Safari browser on Mac shows notifications request as per the website’s design. However, you have multiple options to block different types of notifications as a whole as well as for specific websites that annoys you. The notification process in Safari works like below:

• Website send a push notification request.
• You subscribe to the notifications by allowing the request or have an option block the notifications from that website.
• When allowed, Safari show push notifications using the default “ Notification Center ” on your Mac.
• When blocked, Safari will add the exception in the website preference which you can change anytime later.

Push Notifications in Safari

Push notification is a server side technology that triggers notifications to the readers. This is very useful feature on mobiles to receive updates from news and other apps. In fact, Apple introduced this push notification to send messages from iOS apps. The advantage of push notifications is that it can work even after you closed the apps. Similar to mobile phones, the websites on desktop also can show you push notifications.

Below is the example of push notification confirmation on Safari browser on Mac.

The push notifications from some websites show “Allow” and “No Thanks” button while some sites will show you “Allow” and “Block” or “Cancel” buttons. You can either allow, cancel or block the notifications from the website. If you are allowing, Safari will show you another message that the website will send notifications from “Notification Center”. You can click on “Allow” to continue or click “Don’t Allow” to block.

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Allow or Block Push Notifications from Websites in Safari Mac

When you allow or block, Safari will automatically add this in your preference and send or block notifications from that website. You can also manually allow or block notifications following the below instructions:

• Go to Safari menu and click on “Preferences…” option.
• Under “Websites” tab go to “Notifications” section on the left sidebar.
• Here you can view the list of sites that you have enabled notifications.
• Select the site and change the permission to allow or deny sending notification on the browser.

Permanently Blocking Push Notifications in Safari Mac

The good part is that websites can’t send you notifications without your permission. Therefore, it is easy for you to block the request for all the websites.

• Head back to Safari preferences section and go to “Websites” tab.
• Under “Notifications” section, deselect the option “Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifications”.

This will disable the push notification requests from websites, and you will be never prompted with any messages. If you need notifications from websites then enable this check box and then choose to allow or block specific websites when they request your permission.

Removing and Adding Websites in Notifications

On Google Chrome, you have the options to add websites for blocking or allowing notifications. As you can see in the screenshots, Safari does not allow you to add the websites for blocking notifications. What you can do is to manage after you have visited the website and allowed/blocked the notifications. However, anytime you can select the websites from the list and click on the “Remove” button to delete from the list. This is strange that you have a remove option without the option to add.

In addition, Chrome also allows you to block or allow websites using wildcard. For example, you can add the entry like “*.domain.com” to block or allow notifications from all subdomains of a website. Unfortunately, you can’t do this with Safari on your Mac.

Also, remember that Safari can’t block the inline pop-up notifications shown within the same browser window. This is the same problem with Chrome and other browsers.

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iOS 16.4 will let web apps on your homescreen send push notifications

I’ll probably be turning them off, but at least they’ll be an option..

By Jay Peters , a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

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Apple’s new iOS and iPadOS 16.4 betas will let Safari web apps on your homescreen send you push notifications, according to a new post on the WebKit blog .

As far back as the first iPhone, you’ve been able to add a shortcut to websites to your homescreen represented as app-like icons, but the web apps haven’t been able to send you notifications or show notification badges. With iOS and iPadOS 16.4, however, that will change.

Here’s how the push notifications will work, according to the blog post by Brady Eidson and Jen Simmons — though it sounds a lot like how they work with native apps already:

A web app that has been added to the Home Screen can request permission to receive push notifications as long as that request is in response to direct user interaction — such as tapping on a ‘subscribe’ button provided by the web app. iOS or iPadOS will prompt the user to give the web app permission to send notifications. The user can then manage those permissions per web app in Notifications Settings — just like any other app on iPhone and iPad. The notifications from web apps work exactly like notifications from other apps. They show on the Lock Screen, in Notification Center, and on a paired Apple Watch.

Web apps will also be able to set a notification badge count, according to the blog, and the notifications will support Focus modes, too. And if you have multiple versions of a web app on your homescreen, they can have different settings, which might be useful to help separate personal and work use, for example. I’m personally glad we can manage the notifications on a per-web-app basis; that should make it a lot easier to keep them under control.

These web push notification changes were actually promised quite a long time ago, as Apple first announced web push notifications were on the way back at WWDC 2022 in June . That said, like on desktop, I don’t think I’ll be turning on any web push notifications — I already have turned most of my notifications for native apps off.

It’s not just Safari that’s getting some web app improvements: starting with iOS and iPadOS 16.4, you can save websites and apps from third-party browsers to your homescreen, too.

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Enable Safari Push Notifications on iOS: Step-by-Step Guide

Last updated on apr 18, 2024.

Push notifications are the most efficient and fastest way for publishers to reach out to their readers. These notifications have been pretty straightforward to enable and access on the desktop and on Android smartphones. However, iOS didn’t offer this ability. Things have changed now and Apple has introduced Safari push notifications in iOS 16.4 .

So, why should you care you ask? A significant chunk of website visitors use an Apple iPhone, and can now be reached via push notifications . According to StatCounter, iPhones account for 28% market share globally, now that’s a healthy chunk of the audience you can reach out to. If you are a US-based news publisher, the metrics are completely different. In the US, iOS accounts for over a whopping 56% market share followed by Android at 42%. If iPhone users are a sizeable chunk of your audience, here is how you can help them receive push notifications on their smartphones.

Enabling Safari Push Notifications on iOS

If you want to reach out to your audience on iOS devices such as the iPhone and the iPad, you will need them to enable Push API in Safari settings and then add your website to their home screen. I’ll break this down into two steps.

Enable Push API on Safari

For readers to receive push notifications they need to enable the Push API toggle in Safari settings. This is a one-time step and isn’t required to be done for every website.

• Go to Settings  and then scroll down to Safari .
• Click Advanced  and then Experimental Features
• The reader has to switch on the Push API  toggle.

• The reader must use the Safari browser on an Apple iPhone running iOS 16.4 or above.
• In Safari, get them to click the Share  button and scroll down to the Add to home screen  option.
• Users can then save the app to their home screen.
• Once the app is on their home screen they can now click it to access your website.
• They need to click subscribe, followed by accepting the default iOS prompt for notifications.
• All done, your subscriber can now receive notifications on their iPhone.

This is a complex process and will need you to handhold your reader through this process. For starters, you can add a banner on the website prompting iPhone users to enable push notifications. You can reach out to your repeat users using an iPhone first since they are more likely to be willing to go through this entire process. They are your loyal users after all.

Getting your readers to add your website to the home screen is a big win in itself and is likely to increase repeat visits to your website.

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New AI Features Reportedly Coming to Safari in iOS 18

Safari will gain a series of AI-powered features and UI enhancements in iOS 18 , AppleInsider reports .

• An "Intelligent Search" browser assistant tool that leverages Apple's on-device AI technology to identify key topics and phrases on webpages for summarization purposes.
• A "Web Eraser" tool that allows users to remove unwanted portions of webpages easily. Erasure is persistent, remaining even when revisiting a site unless changes are reverted.
• A new, quick-access menu emerging from the address bar that consolidates page tools, bringing over some functions that currently sit in the Share Sheet and placing them alongside the new tools.

The iPadOS and macOS versions of Safari are also expected to align further. These new features are purportedly undergoing evaluation alongside internal builds of ‌iOS 18‌ and macOS 15 ahead of their unveiling at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in June. Earlier this month, backend code on Apple's servers suggested that a new Safari browsing assistant is in the works, corroborating this report.

Farther in the future, Apple is said to be working on a more powerful version of Visual Look Up that allows users to obtain information on products when browsing through images. The feature is expected to be released sometime in 2025.

Last week, Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman said that ‌iOS 18‌ will "overhaul" many of Apple's built-in apps , including Notes, Mail, Photos , and Fitness. Apple's next-generation operating systems are almost certain to be previewed during Apple's WWDC keynote on June 10, and the updates should be widely released in the fall.

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Apple’s Safari browser got a new AI makeover — and it may even let you escape ads

Safari could look more like arc browser on ios 18 and macos 15 with new ai summaries handled on-device..

Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are already being drowned in new AI features, so we suppose it was inevitable that Apple would also try to shove some AI activities into its default browser. With Apple reportedly jumping on the AI hype train for iOS 18 (though getting on at the caboose end rather than the passenger car) the company at the end of 1 Infinite Loop may try to shove AI summaries and browser assistants into Safari in a move that’s reminiscent of the existing Arc Browser . Unlike the competition, this time Apple could be powering it all from the device itself, rather than the cloud.

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More interestingly, the browser could let you highlight and erase whole sections of web pages. Tired of the banner ads on top of Gizmodo’s site? If the rumors are true, Safari might have the ability to mask that. It all comes from a report from Apple Insider based on the latest builds of Safari 18 . The controls hidden in the latest test models of the browser seem to indicate Safari would paper over sections of a site you don’t want to see. Better yet, it would remember your selections and re-erase the same parts of the page if you come back to it later. You would have the option of reverting the page to its original state.

That feature is akin to apps like 1Blocker on Safari with iPhone or uBlock Origin on other browsers, two apps that allow you to apply cosmetic filters on offending ads. 1Blocker in particular tells Safari what parts of the page to open, which also may help increase the speed at which the page loads.

Of course, advertisers and online publishers would not be happy about any built-in ad-blocking features. The click-centric publishing model is already flailing with the greater push for AI in Google Search .

But this is still extremely early, and code found inside Safari 18 does not necessarily point to how Apple plans to roll out these features, if at all. But AI upgrades to Safari feel inevitable. The so-called “Intelligent Search” would use a large language model to find key phrases and words in an article as the basis for its summary. AI summaries are already available in Edge through the Copilot feature, and Chrome’s Gemini-powered assistant can perform a similar task.

AI features may be Apple’s best bet if it wants to take a hammer to Google’s search and ad monopoly. That’s what Microsoft has been doing with its Edge browser and Bing search, but so far Google Search and Chrome remain dominant in their categories. Apple is also going all-in on AI with its upcoming releases. The M4 chip , expected to debut along with the new OLED iPad Pro , will reportedly have a better neural processor than its previous M-series CPUs. Similarly, the next iPhone 16 is said to have a bunch of AI capabilities with the promise of running some of these language models or art generators on-device.

We’ll likely hear more about this when WWDC rolls around on June 10 .

A version of this article originally appeared on Gizmodo .

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Melissa mccarthy responds to streisand's ozempic question, babs apologizes, melissa mccarthy not sweatin' streisand's ozempic q ... babs says my bad, guys.

Melissa McCarthy is making it clear there is no beef between herself and Barbra Streisand after the latter's Ozempic ask -- and Barb herself is also issuing an apology over it.

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After Babs caught some heat for asking if Melissa had shed some pounds thanks to the weight loss drug ... a photog caught up with the actress on the street in L.A. Tuesday -- where said she still has love for the superstar.

MMC made it clear it was NBD at all saying ... "I think Barbra is a treasure and I love her." She even waved off the photog's question on whether she thought Barbra was out of line.

Obviously ... it's all water under the bridge, although -- Barbra did end up addressing this on her end directly ... issuing a mea culpa to Melissa and explaining how this flub even happened.

pic.twitter.com/WFUqosuosM — Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) April 30, 2024 @BarbraStreisand

BS wrote, "OMG - I went on Instagram to see the photos we'd posted of the beautiful flowers I'd received for my birthday! Below them was a photo of my friend Melissa McCarthy who I sang with on my Encore album."

Babs adds, "She looked fantastic! I just wanted to pay her a compliment. I forgot the world is reading!" In other words ... Barbra seems to have lost track of the fact both her and Melissa are A-list stars. Whoops!

Remember, Melissa and Barbra have a close relationship, with MM appearing on the singer's 2016 album, "Encore," just like Barbra mentions here. On the album, Melissa and Barbra sang a duet from "Annie Get Your Gun," titled 'Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better).'

Since then, Barbra has had a habit of leaving casual comments on Melissa's Instagram posts -- this one just happened to catch the attention of everyone who follows them, and beyond.

No harm, no foul ... Melissa isn't trippin' -- and Barbra's already putting it behind her.

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