Use Firefox to summarize webpages

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You can now get summaries of news articles, how-to guides, reviews, and more in a matter of seconds when you choose to summarize on iOS.

Device and page requirements

Summaries will work on:

  • iOS 16 or later
    • iOS 26+ uses Apple Intelligence to create summaries
    • iOS 16+ uses Mistral 3.1 to create summaries
  • Websites that support Reader View

Content you can summarize

Summaries are available for pages that are a certain length. Generally, it’s pages that are considered to be on the longer side. Here are the types of content you can expect to summarize:

  • News articles
  • How-tos and guides articles
  • Reviews
  • Recipes
  • Research articles
  • Opinion and editorial articles
  • Other articles that can be considered long-form content
Note: PDF files, login-protected content, and non-HTML pages cannot be summarized.

Get started with Shake to Summarize

For Shake to Summarize to work, you need to make sure the websites you visit support Reader Mode. If they do, you’ll be able to summarize them with this feature.

Allow page summaries

Before you activate Shake to Summarize, you need to enable the feature to work in Firefox for iOS.

  1. Open Firefox on your iPhone.
  2. Go to Settings.
  3. Tap on Summarize Content.
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  4. Enable Summarize Content and Shake Gesture.
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How to summarize pages

You can summarize pages in three ways: from the address bar, the page menu, and shaking your device from side to side.

From the address bar

  1. Open a webpage with long-form content.
  2. In the Firefox for iOS address bar, tap the thunderbolt thunderbolt icon. (If you touch and hold the icon instead of tapping, you’ll enter Reader View.)
  3. Wait for the icon to turn blue.
  4. The page will start to summarize.

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From the page menu

  1. Open a webpage with long-form content.
  2. Tap the plus firefoxiosicon icon.
  3. In the Firefox for iOS menu, tap Summarize Page.
  4. The page will start to summarize.

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Shake your device

  1. Open a webpage with long-form content.
  2. Shake your device from side to side.
  3. The page will start to summarize.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can I summarize paywall content?

No. You cannot summarize content that sits behind a hard paywall or requires a login. PDF files, or non-HTML files, cannot be summarized, either.

What languages can be summarized?

For now, page summaries are only available to English-speaking Firefox for iOS users. However, support for additional languages will be added in the future.

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