Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 add AI conversation recording and summaries
Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 on Wednesday, September 12, featuring AI capabilities that can listen to and summarize users' daily conversations, raising significant privacy concerns. The new watches include Siri Recap, which uses Apple Intelligence to generate conversation summaries, titles, and key points, plus Live Rewind, allowing users to replay the last 15 seconds by pressing the Digital Crown twice. The devices also detect sounds like sirens, alarms, doorbells, and crying babies. Apple assured that conversations are not stored, audio remains inaccessible, participants are not identified, and Live Rewind recordings use end-to-end encryption. Both watches launch September 18, with pre-orders available; pricing starts at 459 euros for the Series 12 and 909 euros for the Ultra 4.