{"id":595218,"date":"2026-09-09T18:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595218\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:02:21","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\/nz\/595218\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch Series 12 has an always-on Siri that makes AI recaps of your day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 12<\/a> at its September 9th product launch event, coming one year after the Series 11<\/a>, Ultra 3<\/a>, and SE 3<\/a>. The highlight feature is Siri AI-powered Audio Intelligence with sound recognition. It includes a \u201clive rewind\u201d feature that allows users to replay recently detected audio and transcribe it. There\u2019s also a Siri Recap feature that uses \u201cambient listening\u201d to take notes on audio from your watch.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The Series 12 features some health upgrades, including continuous background heart rate sensing with readings taken every 5 seconds, 60 times more than before. There\u2019s also a new Readiness feature that analyzes recent activity, vitals, and sleep data.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Series 11, 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

The launch also follows a 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 product launch event, coming one year after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,351,200236,363,364,356,111,43,139,69,370,145,1801],"class_list":["post-595218","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-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-wearable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}