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Your Apple Watch has 2 new controversial listening features – but you have to opt in

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

  • Siri Recap and Live Rewind are now available to try in beta.
  • Siri Recap summarizes your conversations into notes.
  • Live Rewind transcribes the last 15 seconds.

Siri Recap and Live Rewind, Apple’s two controversial, always-listening Audio Intelligence features, are now available on the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 with the iOS 27.3 developer beta. Both features are opt-in.

Apple unveiled Siri Recap and Live Rewind in September alongside its Series 12 and Ultra 4 smartwatches, but it waited to release the features until after the smartwatches launched. Siri Recap provides a high-level summary of meetings, while Live Rewind continuously records audio so the watch wearer can pull up a transcript of the last 15 seconds.

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