watchOS 11 is accessible at present

September 16, 2024

UPDATE

watchOS 11 is accessible at present

Introducing sleep apnea notifications, the Vitals app, coaching load, further customization for Exercise rings, a extra personalised Good Stack, and extra

Apple at present launched watchOS 11, bringing highly effective well being and health insights, together with much more personalization, intelligence, and methods to remain linked, to the world’s hottest watch.

Apple Watch now provides a characteristic to assist determine indicators of sleep apnea,¹ and the brand new Vitals app permits customers to rapidly examine in on key well being metrics at a look and achieve higher context on their well being.² The flexibility to measure coaching load helps customers make extra knowledgeable selections when understanding for improved health and efficiency, and Exercise rings are much more customizable. Apple Watch and the Well being app on iPhone and iPad additionally present further help for customers who’re pregnant.

The Good Stack and Photographs face use intelligence to supply a extra individualized expertise, and Examine In, the Translate app, and new capabilities for the double faucet gesture come to Apple Look ahead to extra comfort and methods to remain linked.

Sleep Apnea Notifications

Apple Watch Collection 9, Apple Watch Collection 10, and Apple Watch Extremely 2 now supply a characteristic to assist determine indicators of sleep apnea. To detect indicators of sleep apnea, Apple Watch makes use of the accelerometer to observe small actions on the wrist throughout sleep which are related to interruptions in regular respiratory patterns, tracked by a brand new Apple Watch metric referred to as Respiration Disturbances. Customers can view their nightly Respiration Disturbances within the Well being app, the place they’re labeled as elevated or not elevated, and could be seen over a one-month, six-month, or one-year interval.

Following an onboarding for the characteristic, the brand new sleep apnea notifications algorithm analyzes respiration disturbance knowledge each 30 days, so Apple Watch can notify a consumer if it identifies indicators of sleep apnea. The notification contains the time interval when potential sleep apnea occurred and academic supplies on the significance of searching for remedy, together with a PDF offering three months of respiration disturbance knowledge, notification particulars, and extra info to reference throughout a dialog with a healthcare supplier.

Sleep apnea notifications use the superior processing energy of the S9 SiP and S10 SiP and scientifically validated algorithms. The characteristic was developed with superior machine studying and coaching knowledge from hundreds of nights of clinical-grade sleep apnea checks, and validated within the largest examine ever carried out for the FDA clearance of a sleep apnea gadget. Following FDA 510(ok) clearance and extra world well being authority authorizations, sleep apnea notifications are actually accessible in additional than 150 international locations and areas, together with the U.S., the EU, and Japan.

Vitals App

The brand new Vitals app provides customers a strategy to examine in on their every day well being standing and discover noteworthy in a single day well being metrics at a look, to allow them to simply see when the metrics are out of their typical vary. When two or extra metrics are out of their typical vary, customers can obtain a notification, together with a message detailing how the modifications in these particular metrics could also be linked to different elements of their life, comparable to elevation modifications, alcohol consumption, and even sickness.

To tell out-of-range classifications and notifications, Vitals makes use of an algorithm developed utilizing real-world knowledge from the Apple Coronary heart and Motion Examine, analysis that goals to advance the understanding of the hyperlinks between coronary heart well being and bodily exercise.

Coaching Load

Coaching load is a strategy to measure how the depth and length of exercises are impacting a consumer’s physique over time — an idea utilized by elite athletes and coaches to help with coaching and efficiency. Apple Watch now provides customers distinctive insights to know their coaching load, which can assist them make knowledgeable selections about their coaching every day, significantly when making ready for an occasion.

Apple Watch will set up a 28-day coaching load, a weighted common taking into consideration each the length of customers’ exercises over this era and the depth of the exercises, which is measured by a brand new effort score. Effort rankings can be found after every exercise to trace how tough it was on a scale from 1 to 10, and common cardio-based exercise varieties will use a brand new algorithm and a mixture of exercise metrics to routinely generate an estimated effort score that customers can manually modify. For exercises the place an automated estimate just isn’t offered — like power coaching — customers can nonetheless enter an effort score on the finish of every exercise.

Within the Exercise and Vitals apps, customers can see how their coaching load for the newest seven days compares to their 28-day coaching load, labeled as nicely beneath, beneath, regular, above, or nicely above. This provides actionable perception into whether or not the present pressure on their physique is ramping up, staying the identical, or easing off, to allow them to modify their coaching for the most effective outcomes. Extra info within the Health app on iPhone additional particulars the doable affect on their health in the event that they proceed to coach at that present degree, like potential modifications in health or danger of harm.

Extra Customizable Exercise Rings

With watchOS 11, Exercise rings are much more customizable. Exercise ring objectives can now be personalized by the day of the week, so they’re completely suited to customers’ schedules. Whether or not customers are planning a relaxation day throughout their coaching or simply want a break day, additionally they now have the power to pause their rings for a day, week, month, or extra — with out affecting their award streak. The Health app on iPhone additionally provides customers the power to customise the Abstract tab.

Extra Assist Throughout Being pregnant

watchOS 11, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18 supply further help for customers who log a being pregnant within the Well being app, to mirror modifications of their bodily and psychological well being throughout this necessary time. On Apple Watch, the Cycle Monitoring app will present a consumer’s gestational age and permit them to log signs for issues incessantly skilled throughout being pregnant. Within the Well being app, they may even be prompted to overview issues like their excessive coronary heart price notification threshold, since coronary heart price tends to extend throughout being pregnant.

Extra Customized Good Stack

The Good Stack is designed to assist customers rapidly entry necessary info from any watch face, and now makes use of intelligence so as to add and counsel widgets based mostly on time, date, location, every day routines, and extra, so it’s even less complicated to entry options on Apple Watch when a consumer wants them. New widgets — together with Photographs, Distance, Shazam, and extra — are additionally now accessible; new interactive widgets permit customers to work together with an app immediately from the Good Stack; and Stay Actions is now accessible on Apple Watch throughout the Good Stack.

Examine In, the Translate App, and Scrolling with the Double Faucet Gesture

Examine In involves Apple Watch, and could be accessed immediately from the Exercise app along with Messages. Customers can now begin a Examine In in the course of their exercise — whether or not it’s an early morning run or late-night health club session — so a good friend or member of the family can preserve a watch out for his or her exercise to finish.

The Translate app is now accessible on Apple Watch, utilizing machine studying for speech recognition and fast translation that customers can entry immediately on their wrist. The Good Stack may even routinely floor the Translate app widget when customers are touring to a location with a language that’s completely different from their Apple Watch.

The double faucet gesture can now be used to scroll by way of any app, making it even simpler to work together with Apple Watch with one hand.

New Watch Faces

watchOS 11 introduces three new watch faces:

• The up to date Photographs face can now assist a consumer choose their finest picture choices through the use of machine studying to make suggestions based mostly on aesthetics, composition, and even facial expressions. A customized algorithm then finds the most effective composition by optimizing for the topic’s place throughout the body and creating a way of depth, and the Photographs face now provides Dynamic mode so a brand new picture can seem each time a consumer raises their wrist.

• The Flux face incorporates a daring graphic design that fills the display with colour second by second, making the most of the larger show and 1Hz refresh on Apple Watch Collection 10.

• The Reflections face incorporates a distinctive shimmering dial that reacts subtly to consumer actions.

Tides App

To assist customers plan and revel in open water actions and keep conscious of adjusting circumstances, watchOS 11 introduces a brand new Tides app to Apple Watch. Customers can entry seven rolling days of forecasted tidal info for coastlines and surf spots across the globe, together with info on excessive and low tides, rising and falling tides, tide top and course, and dawn and sundown, all plotted in opposition to a timeline. Customers can even view seashores close to their location on a handy map, and new problems present present tide info for his or her favourite spots or the closest seashores at a look.

Extra watchOS 11 Updates

• Extra exercise varieties accessible within the Exercise app — like Soccer, American Soccer, Australian Soccer, Out of doors Hockey, Lacrosse, Downhill Snowboarding, Cross Nation Snowboarding, Snowboarding, Golf, Out of doors Rowing, and extra — can now observe distance. Route maps are additionally accessible for extra exercise varieties.