Your RSSum guide.

Open an article in RSSum, then ask Siri:

For a question about the open article, say:

When Siri asks for your question, try “What does this announcement mean for existing customers?” The open article supplies the context. Siri can speak a concise reply; the Shortcuts action returns the full text for your next action.

Get today’s summary without opening each article:

Or ask about one subscription:

Replace MacRumors with a feed you follow. Both actions use RSSum’s existing today and feed summaries, through your selected provider.

Tap the Ask My Feeds symbol in the top toolbar, or say “Ask my feeds in RSSum” and give Siri your question. Try:

Answers include numbered sources. Tap a source card to open the supporting article. In the panel, select a feed, choose Today, This Week or All Time, and filter for unread articles or favorites.

If nothing matches: refresh your feeds and try All Time. The answer uses RSS articles already loaded in your library and respects the filters you selected.

The selected AI model can decide what to look up before it answers. It can search loaded articles, read relevant ones, refine its search and collect more evidence across several steps.

1. SearchFind articles in your selected feeds and date range.
2. ReadRead article text and look for more evidence when needed.
3. Compare & citeAnswer with numbered references to the articles used.

Choose a native provider in Settings.

Apple Local / Apple Cloud

Multi-step tools are available where the selected Apple model and configuration support them.

Gemini API

Use a supported Gemini model with your API key. Normal API usage charges apply.

ChatGPT Plan

Use a supported model from your own signed-in ChatGPT account. Your account’s usage limits apply.

Other providers, including other local models and Web AI, use the search-and-answer path: RSSum retrieves relevant loaded articles and asks your provider to answer from that evidence. The native Gemini API and ChatGPT Plan options are separate from those services inside Web AI.

The agent’s tools search and read your loaded RSS library, keeping your feed, date, unread and favorite filters in place. Evidence fits the selected model’s context limit; larger models can use more article text.

Cloud providers receive your question and the article evidence needed for the answer. Read about privacy.

Open Ask My Feeds → Briefings and create a briefing. It remembers the feeds, time window, style and question to use each time. For example:

Title

Morning Tech

Feeds

Your technology subscriptions

Date range

Last 24 hours

Style

Bullet points

Question

Summarize the important announcements and explain why they matter.

Then say:

You can also choose Today or This week, and use Short or Detailed for a different style.

Listen through Shortcuts.

Combine Run Briefing → Speak Text and pass the briefing’s result into Speak Text. On iPhone or iPad, add that shortcut to a time-of-day personal automation for a spoken morning update.

AI actions may open RSSum to run. Keep the selected provider ready; cloud providers need an internet connection and the appropriate account or API key.

In Settings → Manage Topic Alerts, enter topics such as Apple Intelligence, OpenAI. Choose feeds, turn on Notify about new matches, and allow notifications when asked.

New matching articles can trigger a notification that opens the matching list. Keywords are literal: commas separate alternatives, and every word in an alternative must appear in the article. Alerts are evaluated when feeds refresh.

Find articles outside RSSum.

Use Spotlight to search recent articles, favorites and feed names, then open a result in RSSum. Control article indexing with Show articles in Spotlight in Settings.