Apple tests Siri Recaps, an always-listening note-taker

Apple's betas pair two benign features — important-sound detection for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, and Shazam-based song identification — with two that record and summarize conversations. The privacy safeguards Apple describes (on-device processing, no raw audio storage, redaction of ID numbers) address data handling, but the reviewer's discomfort came from something else: the Recap mixed car-repair details with family errands and TV plans in one note. That suggests the near-term challenge for Apple is less about security than about organizing what gets remembered, and letting users prune it easily.