Acronymer support

Acronymer uses Apple’s on-device speech recognition. The first time, your device may need Apple’s speech model for your language. Tap Install with iOS (or iPadOS or macOS) and the system downloads it once. After that, listening works offline. Acronymer itself doesn’t download the speech model; the system does.

On iPhone and iPad, open Settings > Privacy & Security > Microphone and turn on Acronymer. On a Mac, open System Settings > Privacy & Security > Microphone and turn on Acronymer. Audio is processed on your device and is never recorded or sent.

When an acronym could mean two things in the same field (POC: proof of concept or point of contact?), a model on your device reads the conversation and picks one. If Apple Intelligence is on, Acronymer uses it and you don’t need anything else.

If Apple Intelligence isn’t available, Acronymer offers to download Liquid AI’s d1-3B decision model once: a 1.67 GB file from Hugging Face. It’s checked before use and runs offline. Download it later in Settings > Decision model, or remove it there with Remove d1-3B. Without a model, Acronymer still picks meanings from the words said nearby.

When the same letters mean different things in two fields, the higher field wins. To change the order, open Library and drag the fields under “In use, by priority” (on iPhone and iPad, tap Reorder first).

During a meeting, touch and hold the acronym in the glossary (Control-click on a Mac) and choose It means something else, or tap the large acronym to see its other meanings and choose Use this. Your choice holds for the rest of the meeting. If a word isn’t an acronym at all, choose Not an acronym here.

To let the words said nearby decide between fields instead, turn on Settings > Meanings > Let the conversation choose between fields.

In Library, tap + and choose New field. Name it Project Names, then choose Add term. Set its entry type to Project, enter Atlas, and add a meaning such as “Our reporting redesign.” Its optional description could say “Program Manager: Maya Chen. Owned by the Data Platform team.” These are fictional sample facts; use your company’s own details.

The entry types include acronym, jargon, name, project and team. Custom type… lets you use another type such as product or process. Turn on Use in meetings for the field. Use New term to add an individual entry to My Terms.

To add many at once, use Import a list… with CSV or JSON. Download the Project Names CSV or JSON sample. The JSON includes the field name; when importing CSV, choose the field where the entries should go.

Term,Meaning,Description,Kind,Aliases,Pronunciations
Atlas,Our reporting redesign.,Program Manager: Maya Chen.,project,Reporting Hub,at lass

A header row is optional for traditional acronym lists. With headers, columns can be in any order and use names such as term or acronym, meaning or expansion, description, kind, keywords, aliases and pronunciations. Tab- and semicolon-separated files also work. Without a type, entries remain acronyms for compatibility with older lists. To share a field, open it in Library and choose Export for CSV or Export as JSON in its menu.

Acronym definitions said aloud (“the Unified Records Portal, or URP”) are used for the rest of that meeting and can be saved to My Terms. Company knowledge comes from the entries you add or import.

Aliases let “Reporting Hub” refer to Atlas. Optional pronunciation spellings such as “at lass” match that exact wording when it appears in the captions; they do not enable automatic phonetic matching. Separate alternatives with commas in the editor.

Context words help distinguish entries that share a name. If a match remains ambiguous, the app labels it Possible meaning. Open its details and choose the intended meaning. Unresolved meanings stay off Apple Watch until confirmed.

Your library, saved meeting glossaries and downloaded d1-3B model stay in Acronymer’s storage on your device. Glossaries keep the terms, meanings, mention counts and short context around each term’s first mention. Full transcripts aren't saved. Older meeting files are not automatically deleted; delete a meeting to remove its stored contents. The optional Watch companion receives confirmed meanings, session status and known-term preferences. It can put term names and meanings in notifications on the Watch only. No audio or transcript excerpts are included in notifications.

• Delete a meeting by swiping it in Meetings, or with Delete in the meeting’s menu.
• Delete your own terms and fields in Library.
• Remove the d1-3B model in Settings > Decision model.
• Delete the app to remove everything.

Details are in the privacy policy.

Yes. On the Live screen, tap Try a demo meeting (on a Mac, choose Meeting > Try the Demo Meeting). A scripted program sync plays through so you can see acronyms appear, collect in the glossary and save to Meetings.

It stays on while listening by default. Change automatic locking in Settings > Listening. You can also lock your iPhone manually and keep listening.

Start listening on iPhone as usual. The installed Watch companion automatically follows the meeting without a mode switch. You can lock the phone; keep its microphone unobstructed. New terms tap your wrist while the Watch app is open. Enable Wrist alerts inside the Watch app for notifications when you leave it. Use the Watch’s Silent Mode for taps without a chime.

Wear and unlock the connected Watch, and allow Acronymer through your current Focus for background alerts. Try Acronymer > Wrist alerts > Test wrist tap to check the direct haptic, or Send test notification for a sample in five seconds. Alerts appear only on the Watch. watchOS controls presentation and screen wake, and background syncing can delay an alert. The demo updates the feed without alerts.

Install the Acronymer companion app on your paired Apple Watch to browse recent meanings and see whether your iPhone is listening or paused. The Watch app needs the iPhone app for transcription. Start each session on iPhone; the Watch app cannot open the iPhone screen or start its microphone. Only meanings and preferences sync, and choices made while disconnected are saved for the next connection.

Choose I know this on a term in either app or its notification to stop future alerts for that term. Undo it in Settings > Apple Watch > Terms I know > Show again. On Watch, tap a term in I know these to show it again. Your full meeting glossary remains available.

Speech and dictionary matching continue while the phone is locked; optional AI meaning decisions pause in the background. Calls can interrupt the microphone. If listening stops, unlock the phone and use Retry listening.