Siri AI makes the Apple Watch finally feel like a wrist computer
Siri AI makes the Apple Watch finally feel like a wrist computer
Siri AI 让 Apple Watch 终于有了“腕上电脑”的感觉
watchOS 27 feels like a culmination of several years of smaller updates. watchOS 27 感觉像是过去几年一系列小更新的集大成者。
Siri has been on the Apple Watch since day one, though I’m usually hard-pressed to find people who actually make good use of it. It’s kind of just… been there — mostly as a way to set timers when my hands are full. But after playing around with the watchOS 27 developer beta, I get the sense that that’ll start to change. Not for everyone, and definitely not overnight, but the upgrade from plain ol’ Siri to Siri AI feels like a significant shift in how Apple — and other tech companies — think we ought to be using our smartwatches. Siri 自 Apple Watch 发布之初就已存在，但我很难找到真正善用它的人。它一直以来都只是……存在着——主要是在我腾不出手时用来设置计时器。但在体验了 watchOS 27 开发者测试版后，我感觉到这种状况将开始改变。虽然不会立刻改变所有人，也不会一夜之间发生巨变，但从普通 Siri 到 Siri AI 的升级，标志着苹果（以及其他科技公司）对我们应如何使用智能手表这一理念的重大转变。
To be clear: If all you want Siri on the wrist to do is set an alarm or get the weather forecast, by golly, it’s still good at that. But whereas I previously found the Apple Watch to be useful for health and fitness tracking with a side of notification triage, Siri AI lets me do more actual computing from the wrist. A big reason for that is it doesn’t feel like there are two separate Siri experiences on your phone and watch. 明确一点：如果你对手表上 Siri 的需求仅限于设置闹钟或查看天气预报，那么它依然表现出色。但与以往我只将 Apple Watch 用于健康健身追踪和处理通知不同，Siri AI 让我在手腕上就能完成更多实际的计算任务。这很大程度上是因为，你不会再觉得手机和手表上的 Siri 是两个割裂的体验。
“Our main goal with the integration with Watch is to make sure that that experience was consistent. What we don’t want is the user having this experience where they ask Siri in one place, and they get a different answer if they ask [in] another,” says David Clark, Apple’s senior director of software engineering for watchOS. “By having the watch tightly connected with the phone, having that personal context drive the whole experience, we can start setting the expectation that it’s one Siri AI.” “我们整合 Watch 的主要目标是确保体验的一致性。我们不希望用户在某处询问 Siri 后，在另一处得到不同的答案，”苹果 watchOS 软件工程高级总监 David Clark 表示，“通过将手表与手机紧密连接，并利用个人背景信息来驱动整个体验，我们可以让用户确信这就是同一个 Siri AI。”
One quirk: if you have whimsically named reminder lists, Siri AI can get tripped up in adding tasks. Unfortunately, it pays to have boring list names. 一个小毛病：如果你给提醒事项列表起了些天马行空的名字，Siri AI 在添加任务时可能会出错。遗憾的是，起些平庸的名字反而更稳妥。
The disconnect between phone and watch was an issue I had last year while testing Gemini on the Pixel Watch 4 and Samsung Galaxy Watch 8. I often struggled to gauge when it made sense to experiment with Gemini on the wrist versus pulling out my phone. The use cases suggested to me were either to answer random questions, which the phone was still faster at, or to complete complex queries that spanned multiple apps. Prompts like “Remember to remind me to bring an umbrella when it rains” or “Create a K-pop-inspired playlist in YouTube Music.” Gemini on the wrist stank at the former, and while it could generate a playlist, it wasn’t an organic request I’d ever really make. When I asked it to recommend a local coffee shop and text the location to a coworker, I got one 40 blocks away. I got better results on my phone, even if I had to manually text the location. 去年在测试 Pixel Watch 4 和三星 Galaxy Watch 8 上的 Gemini 时，手机与手表之间的割裂感是我遇到的一个问题。我经常纠结于何时该在手腕上尝试使用 Gemini，何时该直接掏出手机。它建议的使用场景要么是回答随机问题（手机处理起来更快），要么是完成跨应用的复杂查询。比如“记得提醒我下雨带伞”或“在 YouTube Music 中创建一个 K-pop 风格的播放列表”。Gemini 在手表上处理前者表现很差，虽然它能生成播放列表，但这并不是我真正会发出的自然请求。当我让它推荐一家当地咖啡馆并把位置发给同事时，它推荐了一家 40 个街区外的店。相比之下，手机给出的结果更好，即便我不得不手动发送位置。
I haven’t really had this issue with Siri AI on watchOS 27. Partly because Siri AI is very upfront about what prompts it can’t do and will suggest alternatives. For example, it can’t do reminders based on weather forecasts, but it can set reminders based on when I leave a location. As for the phone versus wrist search results, I haven’t noticed any wide discrepancies. In fact, the queries you make on the wrist are stored in the same app as on your phone. 我在 watchOS 27 的 Siri AI 上并没有遇到这个问题。部分原因是 Siri AI 会非常明确地告知它无法处理哪些指令，并提供替代方案。例如，它无法根据天气预报设置提醒，但可以根据我离开某地的时间来设置。至于手机和手表搜索结果的差异，我没有发现明显的不同。事实上，你在手腕上进行的查询会与手机存储在同一个应用中。
Thanks to often-annoying ecosystem lock-in, the Apple Watch is a nifty note-taking device on-the-go. Siri AI makes referencing notes and reminder lists on my phone or MacBook easier because I can just ask it to bring up the contents. At Michael’s buying embroidery floss I was able to ask Siri to bring up the list of thread colors I’d stuck in the Reminders app, and then check them off on the wrist as I hunted through the haphazardly stocked bins. Likewise, it’s easy to start looking something up while you’re out and continue later on your phone or MacBook’s Siri AI app. 得益于那套常被诟病的生态系统锁定，Apple Watch 成了一个便捷的随身笔记工具。Siri AI 让调用手机或 MacBook 上的笔记和提醒列表变得更简单，因为我只需开口询问即可。在 Michael’s 购买绣花线时，我让 Siri 调出了我存在“提醒事项”里的线色列表，然后在翻找杂乱的货架时，直接在手腕上勾选已找到的颜色。同样，你在外出时开始查询某事，稍后在手机或 MacBook 的 Siri AI 应用上继续查看也很方便。
The main drawback of Siri AI is it’s a new habit you have to build. When I had to think fast, I often didn’t remember my watch’s upgrades. You still have to deal with latency while Siri AI thinks, and even if Big Tech says LLMs understand naturally worded prompts, it always works better the more specifically you word your requests. As an AI assistant, it’s prone to goofs. If you’re an impatient person, chances are Siri AI on the wrist will irk you from time to time. Siri AI 的主要缺点是你需要培养一种新习惯。当需要快速思考时，我往往会忘记手表已经升级了。你仍然需要忍受 Siri AI 思考时的延迟，而且尽管科技巨头们声称大语言模型能理解自然语言指令，但你的指令越具体，它的表现就越好。作为 AI 助手，它难免会出错。如果你是个急性子，手腕上的 Siri AI 偶尔可能会让你感到恼火。
Workout Buddy — the AI-powered motivational fitness “coach” — is getting a few upgrades. In watchOS 26, Workout Buddy mostly surfaced milestones. This year, it’s expanding what insights get surfaced and now works in Spanish. Workout Buddy——那个由 AI 驱动的励志健身“教练”——也迎来了一些升级。在 watchOS 26 中，Workout Buddy 主要展示里程碑数据。今年，它扩展了展示的洞察维度，并且现在支持西班牙语。
“This year we’ve added facts that look even deeper at your trends, not just based on today’s workout versus historic [ones],” says Clark. “If you’ve just conquered a hill, put in a little extra sweat, we’ll know that the pace you achieved was in spite of elevation, and so it’ll congratulate you for hitting the top of that hill and keeping on going.” “今年我们增加了能更深入分析趋势的数据，不仅仅是基于今天的锻炼与历史数据的对比，”Clark 说，“如果你刚刚征服了一座山丘，付出了额外的汗水，我们会知道你是在克服海拔高度的情况下达到的配速，因此它会祝贺你登顶并鼓励你继续前进。”
You can easily browse Siri AI conversations from the dedicated app on the wrist. Conversely, conversations started on the wrist can be viewed on the phone too. 你可以轻松地在手腕上的专用应用中浏览 Siri AI 的对话。反之，在手腕上开始的对话也可以在手机上查看。
My workouts have been less intense as of late, so I’ve yet to get any of these new insights. If you were hoping Siri AI on the wrist would offer health recs, that’s not in the cards right now. I’m personally relieved that Workout Buddy or Siri AI aren’t more proactive about health advice. However, Clark says that you can use Siri AI’s broad world knowledge to get “science-backed answers” for questions like “What is LDL cholesterol?” or recommend stretches for running recovery. In other words, it’s mos 我最近的锻炼强度有所下降，所以还没能体验到这些新洞察。如果你希望手腕上的 Siri AI 能提供健康建议，目前还做不到。我个人很庆幸 Workout Buddy 或 Siri AI 没有在健康建议方面表现得过于主动。不过，Clark 表示，你可以利用 Siri AI 广泛的知识库来获取“科学支持的答案”，例如询问“什么是低密度脂蛋白胆固醇？”或者让它推荐跑步后的拉伸动作。换句话说，它主要是……