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

Device and page requirements

Summaries will work on:

• Summaries work on iOS. The experience depends on your device.

• Webpages that support Reader View.

Content you can summarize

Summaries are available for webpages that support Reader View and are under a certain length. More specifically, you can summarize pages:

• Up to 5,000 words with other devices, which use Mistral Small 3.1.

Here are some examples of content you can expect to summarize:

• News articles
• How-tos and guides
• Reviews
• Recipes
• Research articles
• Opinion and editorial articles

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 for a content type mentioned above.
2. If summarization is available, you will see a thunderbolt icon in the Firefox for iOS address bar.

   

3. Tap the thunderbolt icon. (If you touch and hold the icon instead of tapping, you’ll enter Reader View.)
4. The page will start to summarize.

From the website menu

1. Open a webpage for a content type mentioned above.
2. Tap the three-dot menu icon.
3. In the website menu, tap Summarize Page.
4. The page will start to summarize.

Shake your device from side to side

1. Open a webpage with long-form content.
2. Shake your device from side to side.
3. If summarization is available, the page will start to summarize.

How to adjust settings for page summaries

1. Open Firefox on your iPhone
2. Go to Settings.
3. Tap on Page Summaries.

• If you switch the Summarize Pages toggle to off, Summarization will no longer be available. Summarize Page will no longer appear as an option in the address bar or website menu. And, you won’t be able to use the shake gesture to summarize pages.
• If you switch the Shake to Summarize toggle off, this turns off the shake gesture. You’ll still have the option to summarize pages from the address bar and website menu.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I trust the summaries?

Summaries are powered by generative AI, which is predictive technology and not guaranteed to always be accurate. Summaries may have mistakes. You should verify summaries against the original page.

Also, summaries are based on the information within the page. They don’t access other sources for information. If something on the page is inaccurate, that inaccuracy may appear in the summary, too.

Can I summarize paywall content?

For paywalled content, we can only summarize the text that is visible in your browser.

What languages can be summarized?

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

Who can see what I’m summarizing?

Firefox takes a privacy-preserving approach to summarizing web pages. The summary is sent directly back to your device.

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