How to summarise a reel on iPhone

Copy the reel's link and paste it in AirDigest, or share it to the app. AirDigest watches the reel using Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system built into your device, and writes one short article on your iPhone.

The steps

• In Instagram, tap the paper plane on the reel, then Copy link. More on copying a link.
• Open AirDigest, tap +, then Paste.
• Read the article when it's ready. If you leave, it carries on when iOS allows, and otherwise when you come back.

What you get

One page: a title, one line, In short, and any steps or list the reel gives, with its links, caption and transcript. Where AirDigest can place a part, a time beside it opens the reel's own lines. You can read it, listen to it or share it. What the reel names lands in a list of its own.

An example

This is AirDigest's sample, written ahead of time from a made-up reel. It opens with a title and one line, then In short and numbered steps.

What works

Public reels up to 90 seconds (45 when the screen is full of text), public posts of images, and videos you choose from Photos or Files. A private post doesn't work. For a reel whose music Instagram keeps in its app, AirDigest reads only the caption and cover.

What it needs

A device with Apple Intelligence turned on: iPhone 15 Pro or later, iPhone 16e, iPad mini (A17 Pro, A20 Pro), MacBook Neo, or an iPad or Mac with M1 or later, on iOS or iPadOS 26.4 or later. No account, and no Instagram login.

What can be wrong

Details can be wrong, because Apple Intelligence writes the article and AirDigest doesn't check a reel's claims. Advice on health, money or the law is the creator's. The link to the reel is at the end of every article.