An iPhone user who woke up to an unfortunate text has gone viral after his phone summarized the message in an incredibly blunt way.
Theater actor and writer Kendall Morgan, 26, lives in New York and, like millions, is navigating the dating scene.
But after going on a date, he woke up the next morning to his date breaking things off—possibly in a considered, respectful and gentle fashion, but all this was lost in the iPhone’s AI Summary.
Apple Intelligence is available on the iPhone 16 and some versions of the iPhone 15. According to the iPhone User Guide, it is intended to help users get through their messages faster by providing summaries showing the key points of each conversation.
But it has its downsides, as Morgan proved in a viral post on X, formerly Twitter, on November 10. Newsweek has contacted Apple for comment.
He told Newsweek, “I would like to say that I’m surprised, and I certainly didn’t expect it to get this much attention.” But when he woke up to the message at 6 a.m. Sunday, “I thought it was the funniest thing ever, so I’m glad everyone else agrees.”
In the post, which has almost 370,000 likes, he wrote, “In case anyone was wondering, the new AI feature on iOS 18 that summarizes longer text messages works incredibly well.”
A screenshot of his account @kendallwmorgan then shows a message quickly summarized as “Not feeling romantic spark; apologizes for ending things.”
X users responded in a big way, with one reply, a simple “Oh my God,” saying it all and garnering 10,000 likes.
One X user wrote, “This is so dystopian. I hate it here,” but others were all for the blunt messaging. “Why do I feel like this would make it comically easier to process?” a commenter said.
And as another X user put it: “Siri out here dropping breakup bombs while you’re just trying to catch some sleep. Savage mode activated.”
But Morgan assured Newsweek: “I was fine!
“We weren’t super serious, and I actually was starting to feel the same way,” he said. “Great person, total catch. We just weren’t matches for each other, and that’s just how it goes sometimes.”
As for whether his date saw the viral post, Morgan said: “I actually sent him the screenshot of the summary, and he also thought it was very funny.
“He doesn’t really have social media, so I don’t think he’s seen [the viral post], but it has gotten a bit bigger than expected now, so maybe he has!”
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