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Apple has released Siri Recap and Live Rewind for Apple Watch, two always-listening features first unveiled two months ago. Both features require users to opt in before they become active.
Apple's watchOS 27.3 developer beta introduces two Audio Intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4: Live Rewind, which shows a transcript of the last 15 seconds of audio, and Siri Recap, which summarizes conversations. Both features require opting in through the iPhone's Watch app, are off by default, and Live Rewind needs an initial microphone calibration before use.
Apple has begun rolling out iOS 27.3, letting third-party developers integrate Siri's AI features into their apps, enabling the assistant to use personal context, natural language processing, and on-screen awareness to complete tasks. The update also introduces an 'app skills' feature that lets developers chain multiple tasks into one action, and extends Siri's expanded abilities to Apple's own apps like Calendar, Mail, Notes, and Photos.
Apple reported 12% revenue growth for the September quarter, beating Wall Street estimates, driven largely by price increases. New CEO John Ternus, alongside CFO Kevan Parekh, warned that services growth will keep slowing and gross margins will keep shrinking due to rising memory costs, prompting shares to fall as much as 4%, per The Wall Street Journal. The $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo is selling well enough that shipments have slipped to January, even as Apple's Siri chatbot lags behind rivals like Instinct and Muse.
On Apple's quarterly earnings call, CEO John Ternus said the newly shipped Siri AI features are just a starting point, with 'so much more' planned. He noted Siri currently works on a 'request-based' model built on an orchestrator-driven architecture that leaves room to add agentic capabilities, provided Apple can ensure user awareness, security and privacy.
Apple's watchOS 27.3 developer beta introduces Siri Recap and Live Rewind, two Audio Intelligence features that use the Apple Watch's microphone to generate conversation summaries and 15-second text transcripts on demand. Apple also released a redesigned Health app in the iOS 27.3 developer beta, adding an Insights tab, personalized recommendations, and support for additional languages. Alongside these releases, Apple published a privacy overview document describing how raw audio is processed on-device and not accessible to apps or Apple itself.
Apple reported record quarterly results, but new CEO John Ternus faced criticism for his handling of his first earnings call, with commentators from Bloomberg and Fortune describing his remarks as rehearsed and cautious. Ternus shared the call with CFO Kevan Parekh and COO Sabih Khan, a departure from Apple's recent practice of having the CEO field most questions. Apple shares slipped in pre-market trading after the company flagged rising memory costs and expenses tied to building Siri AI data centers.
Apple's watchOS 27.3 beta brings two Audio Intelligence tools first shown alongside the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4: Siri Recap, which generates titled summaries of conversations, and Live Rewind, which transcribes the last 15 seconds of audio on demand via a double-press of the Digital Crown. Both features rely on the watches' always-listening microphones and are limited to the two newest Apple Watch models.
Apple has rolled out beta testing of its Audio Intelligence tools for the Apple Watch Series 12, starting with developers in the iOS 27.3 update. The suite includes four opt-in features: sound recognition for alerts like sirens or doorbells, Shazam-powered song identification, a Live Rewind tool that replays the last 15 seconds of conversation as text, and Siri Recaps for catching up on missed dialogue. The features were first unveiled at Apple's September hardware event.
Apple released iOS 27.2, adding Siri AI support for more languages along with numerous bug fixes. Following the update, some iPhone users may notice faster battery drain, but Apple has stated this is a normal, temporary side effect of the device completing background setup tasks like indexing data and updating apps.
Apple reported Q4 2026 gross margin of 47.9%, down from 50.1% last quarter, with product gross margin falling to 37.2% from 40.1%, despite record September-quarter revenue of $114.5 billion. CFO Kevan Parekh said that excluding tariff refunds, the sequential margin decline would have been about one percentage point, driven mainly by rising memory costs, and warned that pressure on margins will continue, with added costs expected from Siri AI investment in the holiday quarter.
Apple has updated iOS so that second-generation Siri Remotes from 2021 onward now appear in the Find My app's Devices section, letting iPhone owners locate them using the same radar-style interface used for other Apple products. The feature was previously limited to the new Apple TV's remote, which also gains full Precision Finding, a built-in chime speaker, and voice-activated locating via microphones on the Apple TV box itself.