Apple Watch Audio Intelligence features enter developer testing

1. 00:51
   TechCrunch · AI

   I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling

   Apple released Audio Intelligence features in the first developer betas of iOS 27.3 and watchOS 27.3, including sound detection, song identification, Live Rewind, and Siri Recaps, with audio processed on-device where possible and without storing raw audio or identifying speakers. In a day of testing, the author found Siri Recaps captured useful details like a repair deductible, time frame, and rental gas level, but also saved extraneous items such as TV plans and mixed unrelated topics into one note. The author suggests separate notes or sections for extraneous details, swipe-to-delete on individual bullet points, and an option to auto-export saved Recaps to Apple Notes.

1. 02:31
   The Verge · AI

   Apple’s latest watchOS beta includes its new always-on Audio Intelligence features

   The new watchOS 27.3 developer beta adds Audio Intelligence features that let Siri use the Apple Watch microphone: Siri Recap, which uses ambient listening to generate conversation summaries, and Live Rewind, which produces text transcripts of the last 15 seconds of audio the mic detected. Apple also released a redesigned Health app for testing in the iOS 27.3 developer beta and announced expanded language support in global English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Apple published an Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview stating that raw audio is handled within dedicated hardware, is not saved as a file, and is not accessible to the operating system, apps, or Apple.

1. 15:20
   TechCrunch · AI

   Apple Watch’s AI features for rewinding and recapping conversations begin beta testing

   Apple has begun beta testing its AI-powered "Audio Intelligence" features for Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, initially for developers in the iOS 27.3 update, after announcing them at its September hardware event. The four opt-in features include sound recognition, Shazam-based song recognition, Live Rewind (which shows the last 15 seconds of speech as a text snippet when you double-press the digital crown), and Siri Recaps, which summarize conversations into short notes without saving raw audio or identifying speakers. Apple says processing relies on the S11 chip, the iPhone, and Private Cloud Compute, with snippets deleted after 30 seconds if unsaved and recaps deleted within seven days if not reviewed.

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