watchOS 27.3 Brings Live Rewind and Siri Recap to Apple Watch

With the archetypal beta of watchOS 27.3, Apple is introducing caller Audio Intelligence features it previewed for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 earlier this year. Powered by the S11 chip, Audio Intelligence includes Live Rewind, Siri Recap, Sound Recognition, and Shazam Music Recognition.


Sound Recognition and Shazam are already connected the watch, but Live Rewind and ‌Siri‌ Recap are present disposable successful the beta. Live Rewind tin amusement you a transcript of the past 15 seconds of a conversation. If you miss thing similar a waiter giving you the regular specials astatine a restaurant, you tin property doubly connected the Digital Crown to spot what was said without having to inquire the idiosyncratic to repetition themselves.

Unlike Live Rewind, ‌Siri‌ Recap works successful the background. The Apple Watch listens to conversations passim the time and generates a high-level summary that includes a rubric and cardinal points. Apple says you tin usage ‌Siri‌ Recap to jog your representation later, allowing you to enactment contiguous successful the moment. If ‌Siri‌ Recap is turned on, summaries are created automatically and auto-deleted aft 7 days unless they're saved. It does not see a afloat transcript of conversations.

Audio Intelligence features are each opt-in. Apple says Live Rewind lone activates erstwhile the Digital Crown is pressed. Transcription doesn't proceed beyond the 15-second snippet, and substance is not saved unless you inquire ‌Siri‌ astir it oregon prevention it to the ‌Siri‌ app.

‌Siri‌ Recap tin beryllium scheduled to tally based connected time, location, oregon both. You tin acceptable it to perceive conscionable portion you're astatine work, oregon adhd a regularisation to support it from activating astatine night. It tin besides beryllium turned connected and disconnected manually done Control Center, and ‌Siri‌ Recap summaries tin beryllium viewed and deleted successful the ‌Siri‌ app.

Apple has a long privateness explainer for Audio Intelligence. Audio recordings aren't created oregon stored, and nary audio tin beryllium accessed by apps, the operating system, oregon Apple. Raw audio is ne'er disposable due to the fact that it goes into the Secure Exclave connected the S11 chip. Apple describes the Secure Exclave arsenic a hardware-isolated compartment that processes sensor information separately from the remainder of the system.

No Audio Intelligence features place oregon property speakers, truthful substance won't accidental "Eric said..." oregon statement speakers arsenic "Speaker A" and "Speaker B." ‌Siri‌ Recaps filter perchance harmful contented and delicate information.

When utilizing Live Rewind, determination is an audible chime that plays from the Apple Watch speaker, adjacent if it's successful soundless mode. A full-display animation plays connected the ticker erstwhile Live Rewind is used, and a microphone indicator alerts those adjacent that it's been turned on.

Live Rewind and Sound Recognition are processed on-device unless a Live Rewind snippet is sent to ‌Siri‌ for a petition oregon saved. ‌Siri‌ Recap summaries are created done Private Cloud Compute.

Along with an Apple Watch Series 12 oregon Ultra 4, ‌Siri‌ Recap and Live Rewind necessitate an iPhone 16 oregon aboriginal with Apple Intelligence and ‌Siri‌ AI. The caller features are successful English lone to statesman with, and they're not disposable to users nether 13. Parental support is required for Child Accounts nether 18.

We're expecting watchOS 27.3 to motorboat successful December alongside iOS 27.3.
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