Live Rewind: If you double-press the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch, it will pull up a text snippet of your conversation over the last fifteen seconds.
At first glance, the basic concept seems like a privacy nightmare, but Apple has put some safeguards in place to help people feel more comfortable with this feature: The audio that is captured is never recorded or stored, and never leaves your device; it is essentially deleted immediately and in real time from local storage; only a truncated version is uploaded to Apple Private Cloud Compute servers for AI processing, and the resulting transcript that is delivered to you is end-to-end encrypted.
How Audio Intelligence makes a transcript of what it hears
Series 12 and Ultra 4 watches run on an S11 chip with a Secure Exclave feature, a partitioned local storage compartment that even the operating system cannot access. When your Apple Watch picks up ambient audio, it is sent straight into this protected buffer, where it is encrypted, then sent over to a matching Secure Enclave on your paired iPhone.
None of the audio data is tied to your Apple ID once it reaches the servers at this stage. Apple uses a third-party relay to conceal your IP address while uploading the data to Private Cloud Compute, so not even their employees can identify you from your device. While in the Private Cloud Compute servers, your audio data gets summarized by Siri AI. This is how you end up with daily text summaries of your audio, provided you opt into Siri Recap. Siri Recap summaries are auto-deleted every seven days unless you choose to save them individually.
If someone manages to hack into your Apple ID or access your unsecured iPhone, they might be able to view all your saved conversation summaries from a single place. And it’s not just the potential data breach that should scare you, but all the associated privacy concerns.
Series 12 and Ultra 4 watches will now come loaded with Apple's new audio intelligence feature Credit: AppleTo its credit, Apple has added an audio chime and a brief visual cue that plays on your watch whenever the Live Rewind feature is triggered. This is intended to inform people around you that they are being listened to. Live Rewind also doesn’t identify speakers, so it won’t name or otherwise identify the person speaking in the transcriptions or summaries—but none of that actually prevents people from being eavesdropped on without their explicit consent.
This is a potential concern not just for other people who might worry about being spied on every time they see an Apple Watch, but also Apple Watch users themselves, if they are in a region where local laws require consent before recording audio: Some 12 U.S. states have explicit all-party consent laws that forbid undisclosed recordings, while outside the U.S., many E.U. countries have instituted similar requirements; the E.U.'s GDPR also prohibits recordings containing personally identifiable information without disclosure.
Audio Intelligence features do not create audio recordings that can be accessedby the operating system, apps, the user, or Apple. There is no recording to share,forward, or produce if requested by any party, because no recording exists.
How to turn Audio Intelligence on or off
Given all the potential security concerns, it’s a good thing that Apple has at least made its Audio Intelligence features opt-in only. They won’t be enabled by default on your new Apple Watch, and you can choose to enable or disable individual features as you choose to. Here's what to look for:
Sound & Name Recognition > Sound Recognition. Here you can toggle the “Detect using Apple Watch” option on or off.
Live Rewind: Open the Watch app on your iPhone. Go to Siri > Live Rewind. You can choose to enable or disable “Double Click Digital Crown” to control this feature.
Siri Recap. You can enable or disable the feature here, or even set an autorun schedule for it if you like. Siri Recap can also be switched on and off by flipping a single toggle in your Control Center.
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