Summary
- Firefox has added Shake to Summarize to its iOS app, allowing you to shake your iPhone to get an AI-generated webpage summary.
- On the Phone 15 Pro or newer, with iOS 26, the feature uses Apple Intelligence. On older devices and iOS versions, it uses Mozilla’s cloud AI.
- The feature is currently only available to English-language users in the US, with plans to expand it to more countries and Android soon.
As AI continues to rise, the web search experience is undergoing a major transformation. Google has been at the forefront, introducing AI Overviews and AI Mode to Google Search. Meanwhile, ChatGPT has emerged as one of the most popular AI chatbots in the world. Now, Firefox is upping its AI game.
Firefox has announced it is launching a new AI feature on its iPhone app that lets you shake your phone to get an AI-generated summary of the webpage you’re viewing. The feature uses Apple Intelligence to generate summaries if you’re on the iPhone 15 Pro or newer with iOS 26. For older iPhones and iOS versions, it relies on Mozilla’s cloud-based AI to “securely” create the summary and send it back to you.
Besides shaking your phone to start an AI summary on Firefox’s iOS app, you can also tap the “thunderbolt” icon in the search bar or tap the three dots at the bottom of your screen and select “Summarize page.”
Shake to Summarize is also coming to Android
It’s only available in the US currently
Firefox’s new Shake to Summarize feature is now rolling out to English-language iOS users. Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind Firefox, also announced plans to expand the feature to more countries soon and to bring it to Android devices.
“Shake to Summarize helps users cut through information overload and get to the heart of any article. Summaries are content-aware and adapt to what people are reading: recipes pull out the steps, sports focus on scores and stats, and news articles highlight the key takeaways — all with a single shake or tap,” Mozilla explained in a blog post.
Currently, the feature only works on web pages containing fewer than 5,000 words. The first time you use it, Firefox will prompt you to allow page summaries. If you’re worried about accidentally activating the feature by shaking your iPhone while using Firefox, or if you simply don’t want to use it, you can disable it in the Firefox app settings.
With the launch of its new Shake to Summarize feature, Firefox becomes one of the first third-party apps to use Apple Intelligence with iOS 26, after Apple released its Foundation Models framework for developers to access and utilize Apple’s on-device AI.
I’ll give Firefox credit for coming up with at least an interesting way to activate its AI-generated webpage feature; however, I usually associate shaking my iPhone with frustration, something AI summaries sometimes also make me feel.
