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Apple Watch Audio Intelligence enters beta with rewind and recap features
Key points
- Apple's Audio Intelligence rolls into beta, initially for developers, in the iOS 27.3 update after a September announcement.
- Four opt-in features cover sound detection, song identification via Shazam, Live Rewind, and Siri Recaps; Series 12 and Ultra 4 supported.
- Live Rewind shows the last 15 seconds of speech as text, deleted after 30 seconds unless saved to the Siri app.
- Siri Recaps summarizes conversations without speaker identification, raw audio, or word-for-word transcripts; unsaved recaps delete after seven days.
Why it matters for marketers: Marketers using Apple Watch audience data should note that conversation-listening features are opt-in and processed on-device or via Private Cloud Compute, limiting data access.
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