I tried the most underrated iPhone 16 AI feature on my iPhone 15 Pro (versus Pixel and Galaxy)

I’m sure iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 & 16 Pro users will be thrilled to start using web page summarization as soon as iOS 18 is out, but I couldn’t skip comparing Apple’s take on this smart AI trick to Samsung’s and Google’s in more detail. And I quickly discovered which one’s best.

Yes, there’s a very clear winner, and it is Samsung’s AI summary, which does the best job by far.

The main reason is that Samsung’s take on the web page summarization feature isn’t just great at giving a summary of what you’re likely to want to know, but it also lets you choose whether you want a “standard” or a “detailed” bullet point breakdown. And depending on the web page you’re reading, this can make a huge difference.

Also, Samsung’s web page summarization is (by far!) the easiest and quikcest one compared to Apple and (especially) Google’s. You simply hit the Galaxy AI button, which is always underneath whatever you’re reading on your Samsung Internet browser, and then hit the AI summary button. Depending on the last setting it was on, Galaxy AI will give you a “standard” or a “detailed” summary, and you can switch between the two with just a tap.

Despite huge focus on AI, Google’s web page summary feature is a mess - Gemini and Google Assistant make Siri look smart

Although it technically supports this feature through Gemini, my Pixel 8 Pro is actually the most disappointing of the bunch in the way it handles AI web page summarization - if it handles it at all…

See, if you want to summarize a web page on your Pixel, you must copy the link and manually paste it into the Gemini app - like a caveman. And that’s when it works - which it often doesn’t.

This extra step would’ve been less of a pain if, according to Google, both Gemini and Google Assistant (which are very much two separate entities) should be able to summarize a web page with a simple voice command - but this was pretty much impossible no matter what I tried.

The closest I got to getting a web page summary out of my Pixel 8 Pro was by summoning Gemini and hitting the “Ask about this screen” button, which looks at what’s on your screen, and tries to give you contextual information about it.

Google’s take on summarizing web pages on Pixel is wrong and completely broken - even OnePlus got ti right

Obviously, one of the problems seems to be that Google is trying to use Gemini and/or Google Assistant to summarize a web page, but they are voice assistants, which aren’t supposed to have access to your screen at all times (for privacy reasons).

Therefore, Samsung and Apple’s browser-based solution is more simple and it works 100% of the time, as opposed to… never.



All in all, this is extremely bizarre since Google was the first phone-maker to bring this time-saving feature under the spotlight, and now has the worst implementation between the big three.

What’s also interesting is that Google just launched a new feature letting Gemini Premium subscribers summarize emails and perform specific Gmail searches by asking Gemini to do so.

On top of that, Pixel 9 will be able to summarize and extract information from entire YouTube videos, which sounds incredible. And yet we can’t get a basic web page summarization without jumping through hoops?

Useful AI tricks like web page and notes summary could make expensive phones like the Phone 16 Pro, Galaxy S24 Ultra, and Pixel 9 Pro worth it - but let’s get it right

In case you’re wondering why I haven’t talked about summarizing anything other than web pages, it’s because I couldn’t get this feature to work on any of the phones. At least on the current software I’m running (which is the latest on all three).

Apparently, the final version of iOS 18 should let you summarize just about any text on the iPhone, like in the Notes app, for example. And while summarizing notes and emails should already be working on the Pixel and Galaxy, it isn’t right now - at least on my European units.

That aside, I find the AI summary feature to be extremely helpful especially when it comes to web pages with tons of text.

And although Google is totally failing to deliver right now, it has the right ideas - I should be able to summarize a web page by asking my voice assistant. Not to mention, the YouTube video summary feature, which is a super powerful time-saving trick I can’t wait to try.