{"id":610953,"date":"2026-09-09T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/610953\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:20:17","slug":"apple-watch-series-12-has-an-always-on-siri-that-makes-ai-recaps-of-your-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/610953\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch Series 12 has an always-on Siri that makes AI recaps of your day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Apple announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2026\/09\/introducing-apple-watch-series-12-with-the-all-new-health-sensing-system\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Watch Series 12<\/a> at its September 9th launch event, with Siri AI-powered <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/148354\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Audio Intelligence<\/a> as the highlight features. The new abilities include a Live Rewind feature that allows users to replay the last 15 seconds of recently detected audio and view a text transcript of it on their watch by double-pressing on its Digital Crown button. There\u2019s also a Siri Recap feature that uses \u201cambient listening\u201d to take notes on audio from your watch, with summaries in the Siri app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The Live Rewind and Siri Recap features will be available in beta later this year on both the Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4, in English at first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The new watch is powered by a new S11 chip and comes in space gray, black, gold and bronze, as well as black and white ceramic. It starts at $399 and launches September 18th, with preorders starting today. It will also be available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/971220\/apple-upgrade-program-iphone-mac-ipad-lease-launch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Upgrade leasing program<\/a> with 12- and 24-month leases starting at $11.99 per month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The Series 12 also features some health upgrades with new optical and electrical heart sensors that now support continuous background heart rate sensing with readings taken every 5 seconds, 60 times more than before, and now include support for perimenopause and menopause in the Cycle Tracking experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/772872\/apple-watch-series-11-specs-features-price-release-date\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Series 11<\/a>, which also launched at $399 with 42mm and 46mm sizes, added 5G, hypertension monitoring, a Sleep Score feature, stronger Ion-X glass, and improved battery life. It was also Apple\u2019s slimmest smartwatch to date when it was announced, measuring 9.7mm thick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The launch also follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/956903\/apple-price-increase-2026-macbook-ipad-mac-home-vision-pro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wave of price hikes<\/a> earlier this year that impacted nearly all of Apple\u2019s products, although not its smartwatches \u2014 the Apple Watch has consistently started at $399 for several years now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 12 at its September 9th launch event, with Siri AI-powered Audio Intelligence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,670,189241,343,344,330,85,46,43,920,125,2173],"class_list":["post-610953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-apple","tag-apple-event-2026","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-gadgets","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-wearable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}