watchOS 27.3 arrived this week in beta alongside iOS 27.3, with a major new feature for the latest Apple Watch models: Siri Recap, which I’m already really loving.

If you bought an Apple Watch Series 12 or Apple Watch Ultra 4 this fall, there are two exclusive new features coming in watchOS 27.3: Siri Recap and Live Rewind.

Both ‘Audio Intelligence’ features were announced at Apple’s September keynote, but just debuted in beta this week.

Siri Recap in particular has stirred some controversy. Here’s what the feature does, per Apple:

Siri Recap ambiently takes notes on your conversations throughout your day and creates high-level Apple Intelligence–generated summaries that you can use later to jog your memory, so you can stay present in the moment. Siri Recaps can be set to automatically delete after a period of up to 7 days unless you choose to explicitly save them.

It’s understandable why users would be concerned. Once enabled, Siri Recap can turn your Apple Watch into a device that’s always listening and often takes notes on what it hears.

This article isn’t about making the privacy case for the feature. You can read Apple’s privacy protections here. Briefly though, key details include: there’s no speaker attribution or logging of sensitive information like financial data, authentication data, or personal identifiers; no audio is stored or recorded; the feature is opt-in; and you can set times or places where it stays disabled.

Speaking strictly of the functionality of Siri Recap itself, however, I’ve been very impressed.

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