How to Summarize a Web Page or Article on iPhone

To summarize an article in Safari on iPhone, tap the Page Menu button and choose Summarize. That built-in option needs Apple Intelligence (iOS 27 on an iPhone 15 Pro or later supported model) and appears only if the website supports it. On any iPhone running iOS 16 or later, you can instead share the page to a summarizer app such as SumAI.

SumAI is our app, so weigh our view accordingly. Apple’s features are described from its iPhone User Guide for iOS 27, and other products from their makers’ help pages, all checked in November 2026. Requirements and limits can change.

What are the ways to summarize a web page on iPhone?

Method	What it needs	What you get
Safari’s Summarize	Apple Intelligence, and a website that supports it	A summary of the page inside Safari
Writing Tools	Apple Intelligence, and text you select	A summary or key points of the selection
Accessibility Reader	Apple Intelligence for the summary	The page’s text read aloud, plus a summary
Share to SumAI	iOS 16.0 or later	A summary in five styles and 60+ languages, Ask AI and Listen
Share to Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)	A Google Account	The page as a source in a notebook you can chat with

How do you use Safari’s built-in Summarize on iPhone?

Safari’s built-in summary is part of Apple Intelligence. Apple’s iPhone User Guide gives these steps:

1. Open the Safari app and go to the webpage.
2. Tap the Page Menu button.
3. Tap Summarize.

Apple attaches a condition: the Summarize item appears in that menu only if the website supports it. Apple’s guide does not say what makes a page qualify. It also notes that usage limits may apply.

If you learned this feature on an earlier version of iOS, look in a new place. Apple’s iOS 18 guide put Summarize at the top of Safari’s Reader view. The iOS 27 guide puts it in the Page Menu.

Which iPhones can use Safari’s Summarize?

Safari’s Summarize needs an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence. According to Apple’s requirements page, as of November 2026 that means:

• Model: iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16 or later, iPhone Air or iPhone Duo.
• Software: iOS 27.
• Language: the device language and Siri language set to the same supported language. Apple lists English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese and Korean, and says some features are not available in all regions or languages.
• Storage: up to 8 GB, or up to 14 GB on some newer models.

If Summarize is missing, either the page does not support it or the iPhone does not meet these requirements.

How do you summarize part of a page with Writing Tools?

Writing Tools is the Apple Intelligence feature for text you select. Apple’s Safari page says you can also use Writing Tools to summarize webpages, and the Writing Tools page gives the steps: select the text, tap the Writing Tools button, then tap Summarize or Key Points.

Apple writes those steps for text in a place where you write. If Writing Tools does not appear for a selection on a web page, copy the passage into a note and use it there.

This route is useful when you want only one section of a long page, or when the Summarize item does not appear. It still needs an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence.

How do you share a page from Safari to SumAI?

SumAI is an iPhone and iPad app that summarizes web articles, YouTube videos and PDFs. It requires iOS 16.0 or later, so it works on iPhones that cannot run Apple Intelligence.

To use SumAI from Safari, open the share sheet and choose SumAI. Apple’s guide says that in iOS 27 you tap the Page Menu button, then Share, or the Share button if your tab layout is Bottom or Top. From any other browser, copy the page’s link and paste it into SumAI.

You then choose one of five summary styles, from a one-paragraph TL;DR to Detailed, and the language of the summary. The language is your choice from more than 60, whatever language the article is in, which helps with foreign-language articles. Safari can also translate a whole page from the Page Menu when translation is available.

The summary is kept in your library. From there you can use Ask AI to question the article, open a mind map, or run the quiz and flashcards. SumAI’s web page summarizer is built for articles, meaning pages with a main body of text. Pages that are mostly images, video or interactive tools have little text to summarize.

SumAI is free to download, with an optional Premium subscription. It is an iPhone and iPad app, and it also runs on Apple-silicon Macs and Apple Vision Pro as the iPad app. There is no browser extension, web app or Android app.

Can you send a page to an AI assistant instead?

AI assistants can summarize an article too. We found two documented routes as of November 2026:

• Gemini Notebook. Google’s help page says that while browsing a website on iPhone you can tap the share icon and select Gemini Notebook to add the page to an existing notebook. Google’s source rules say only the text of the page is imported.
• Claude. Anthropic’s help center says that with web search turned on, Claude can retrieve the content of a page from a link you give it, and that links occasionally do not work.

With any assistant, pasting the article’s text into the chat works as plain text input. Gemini Notebook is the better choice when you are collecting many pages on one topic.

Can you listen to an article instead of reading it?

You can listen in two ways, and they read different things.

SumAI’s Listen reads the summary aloud at 0.75x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x or 2x. That is the short version of the article, suited to a walk or a commute.

Apple’s Accessibility Reader reads the text of the page itself. Turn it on in Settings under Accessibility, then Read & Speak, open it from Control Center or the share menu, and tap the Play button. You can change the speaking speed, and with Apple Intelligence you can also tap Summarize at the top of the content.

What happens with paywalled or login-only pages?

A summarizer that loads a page from its link can only use the text the site gives it. SumAI summarizes the text it can load from the link, so a page that requires a login or sits behind a paywall may not be summarized. Google states the same limit for Gemini Notebook: paywalled webpages are not supported.

This guide does not cover ways around paywalls or logins. If you have access to an article and it is open in front of you, Writing Tools works on the text you select on screen.

How do you save a web page as a PDF on iPhone?

Saving a page as a PDF gives you a fixed copy to annotate, file or pass to a PDF tool. Apple documents this route for iOS 27:

1. In Safari, open the page, tap the Page Menu button, then tap Share. If your tab layout is Bottom or Top, tap the Share button.
2. Tap Markup. Apple’s steps have you annotate the page here with the Markup tools.
3. Tap the Done button, then choose Save File To.
4. Enter a name and tap Save.

Apple’s page does not say whether the saved PDF contains selectable text. Before you give it to a PDF summarizer, run the text check described in how to summarize a PDF on iPhone.

Which method should you use?

• Your iPhone supports Apple Intelligence and the page shows Summarize: use Safari’s built-in option. There is nothing to install.
• You need only one section: use Writing Tools on the selected text.
• You have an older iPhone, or you want to keep the summary, ask questions or study it: share the page to SumAI. Download SumAI to try that route.
• You are collecting many pages on one topic: use Gemini Notebook.
• Your hands and eyes are busy: listen to the summary, or have Accessibility Reader read the page.

Whichever you choose, an AI summary can miss nuance or get a detail wrong. For anything you plan to quote, cite or act on, open the article and read the passage.