Product update
From a spoken thought to text you can use
Mac beta 1.0.8.43 brings together the week's voice commands, meeting templates, in-app Ollama model downloads and a simpler first-run experience. iPhone and Apple Watch remain in internal testing.
Mac · public betaiPhone · internal testingApple Watch · internal testing
Shipped in Mac beta · 1.0.8.34–1.0.8.43
- Hold the Daisy key and speak to shorten or translate selected text, draft a reply, or save a note to a named project. You can ask for a summary with the note, or ask Daisy to make a prompt for a particular tool. The result card offers copy and insert actions; text-editing flows include a diff and undo. The current tap action fixes the keyboard layout—it does not start a voice note.
- Meeting-note templates include six built-in options, custom sections and creation from an example. Empty sections say “Not discussed” instead of being filled with invented content. Follow-up style can be based on one to three example letters, with recognized names removed locally. Review generated facts before sharing.
- Choose and download Ollama models inside Daisy, see memory guidance and cancel a download. Installing Ollama itself still opens its download page. Local processing remains the main option; external AI providers require consent before content is sent, and that consent can be revoked in Privacy.
- First launch offers an optional hands-on tour with practice dictation, a voice note and a clearly labelled demo meeting. Settings are grouped into eight tabs with search via Cmd-F. The recording widget remembers its position across launches and displays.
- Starting a new recording can pause processing of a previous recording and resume it afterwards. Audio capture is rebuilt when AirPods leave call mode, with a fallback to the current output. Whisper decoding no longer blocks the main interface thread. These are beta fixes, not a guarantee against every interruption.
In testing · iPhone and Apple Watch
- The internal iPhone build distinguishes a single-author text note from a meeting and lets you edit paragraphs without timestamps in place. Single-voice summaries are being tuned to preserve the thought rather than force it into a meeting format.
- iPhone is for microphone recordings of in-person conversations and voice notes, not system audio or phone calls. Saving audio and completing on-device transcription are separate stages: a model may still need to download, and iOS can defer background work. Watch recordings are processed later on iPhone or Mac, not transcribed on the watch. No new public mobile or Watch release is announced this week.
Next
- Continue physical-device checks for background processing, interruptions and delivery between Watch, iPhone and Mac. On Mac, gather feedback on the Daisy key and whether the new templates preserve the details that matter.