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Hands on: iOS 27.3 beta's Safari, Siri AI, vertical tabs, and more
Apple's watchOS 27.3 beta brings Siri Recap and Live Rewind, while a redesigned Health app arrives in the iOS 27.3 beta.
Key points
- Live Rewind shows the previous 15 seconds of conversation as a text snippet after a double-press of the Digital Crown.
- Apple says users' raw Audio Intelligence audio is handled within dedicated hardware and is not saved as a file.
- The redesigned Health app in the iOS 27.3 beta adds an Insights tab, a For You section and health educational content.
Why it matters. Users who use iCloud with two-factor authentication and a device passcode get end-to-end encrypted syncing of saved Siri Recap summaries and Live Rewind snippets, according to Apple.
Apple is letting Siri use the Apple Watch microphone in the watchOS 27.3 developer beta, which is rolling out now. Live Rewind shows the last 15 seconds of conversation as text after a double-press of the Digital Crown, while Siri Recap creates a title and key points in the new Siri app after a conversation. Apple's Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview says raw audio "is handled within dedicated hardware, is not saved as a file, and is not accessible to the operating system, apps, or Apple.
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Hands on: iOS 27.3 beta's Safari, Siri AI, vertical tabs, and more
Starting today, Siri can tune into the Apple Watch’s mic with Audio Intelligence features that are available in the new watchOS 27.3 developer beta rolling out now. The two new additions are Siri Recap, which uses “ambient listening” to generate summaries of your conversation, and Live Rewind, which generates text transcripts of the last 15 seconds of audio your watch’s mic detected. Apple is also releasing its redesigned Health app for testing today in the iOS 27.3 developer beta, and announced expanded language support in global English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. It adds sections like a new Insights tab with summaries for heart, sleep, fitness, and other data that pop up during the day, a For You section with personalized recommendations, and health content like educational videos and articles. Apple: * Live Rewind, which can help users recall what was just said in conversation. A double-press of the Digital Crown shows the previous 15 seconds of a conversation as a text snippet, so the user can catch something they may have missed or are less familiar with. Users can ask Siri about the content of the text or save it to the Siri app to revisit later. * Siri Recap, which can create high-level summaries of conversations that users can review later to jog their memory. When Siri Recap .