iOS 18.4 Adds Apple Intelligence Priority Notifications Feature

With the iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4 betas, Apple is introducing a new Priority Notifications feature that can show you your most important notifications first.

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Apple first announced Priority Notifications when showing off Apple Intelligence in June, but it wasn't implemented until now. Priority Notifications is disabled by default, but it can be turned on by going to Settings > Notifications > Prioritize Notifications and tapping the toggle.

With the feature enabled, ‌Apple Intelligence‌ will show notifications that may be important in a dedicated section of the Lock Screen.

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Top Rated Comments

thefrost Avatar
14 hours ago at 11:31 am
Good luck with that.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
AbSoluTc Avatar
13 hours ago at 12:29 pm
Notifications became spam several years ago. Abused by apps pushing notifications nobody asked for. Most are off for me for that reason
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
dannyyankou Avatar
13 hours ago at 11:54 am
❗️❗️❗ Anyone who is saying they updated and they don’t have it, you need to wait for the new Apple Intelligence features to download in the background OTA.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
nutmac Avatar
13 hours ago at 11:40 am
I dislike Apple Intelligence features sprinkled throughout the Settings app. Apple is probably aiming to make Apple Intelligence an integral part of the overall user experience. For now, these features should be duplicated or moved to Apple Intelligence settings section so that users can customize their exposure to AI.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Bones402 Avatar
13 hours ago at 12:18 pm
Just getting some of the promised features 9 months after announcing them is pathetic and proof to how far Apple has fallen from the peak of their RD and Stable iOS selling points. It's all just MEH to me and smoke and mirrors and I won't use that stuff much. I plan to decrease my screen time to like an hour a day from 2-2.5 a day currently. Just getting sick of being on the phone and devices anymore.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
HJM.NL Avatar
13 hours ago at 12:05 pm

I might try this on a weekend, but I really don’t trust Apple Intelligence enough yet to leave this active full time.

It’s hard enough to trust AI for specific requests. I just can’t see a world where I let AI decide what’s important to me and what isn’t. I’d hate to miss a message or other notification because some AI algorithm decided it wasn’t something I needed to see.
It would be a handy feature if it was working and trustworthy. Can’t believe they call it iOS 18.4 beta because all the features offered sofar are beta and not properly working. The whole iOS 18.x is a beta experience. Doesn’t bode well for iOS 19.

You could say stop announcing new capabilities but seeing how far behind Apple is getting on Android, that’s not an option.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)