Apple Watch’s new feature listens to your chats and recaps them

Apple launched a gathering notetaker connected Wednesday for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, 1 of a bid of caller audio quality features that tin perceive to sounds done your Apple Watch.

The feature, called Siri Recap, uses ambient listening to instrumentality high-level notes of your conversations, according to the company. Apple Intelligence volition automatically make a title, summary, and cardinal points from the conversation, which tin past beryllium reviewed successful the Siri app.

Apple said that you tin take to support this diagnostic ever on, acceptable up a schedule, oregon crook disconnected completely.

The notetaker wasn’t the lone audio-focused diagnostic introduced for the Watch. Apple’s caller audio quality features besides see Shazam, which tin place songs instantly. This means Apple has yet caught up to Google’s Now Playing feature. The Watch tin besides admit large sounds similar sirens, alarms, doorbells, oregon a babe crying and notify users.

Apple besides introduced a diagnostic is called Live Rewind, which lets users recap 15 seconds of speech erstwhile they treble property the integer crown.

Apple emphasized that the features don’t store recordings and that earthy audio is inaccessible. The Siri Recap diagnostic doesn’t place speakers either. Users tin entree Live Rewind recaps, which are end-to-end encrypted. Despite these guardrails, an always-listening diagnostic volition apt rise privateness concerns due to the fact that Siri Recap whitethorn inactive seizure delicate accusation successful its summaries.

Besides immoderate of the privateness features, Siri Recap sounds akin to different notetakers similar Granola and Circleback, which besides person Apple Watch apps.