watchOS 11 is accessible at this time

September 16, 2024

UPDATE

watchOS 11 is accessible at this time

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

Apple at this time 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 gives a function to assist determine indicators of sleep apnea,¹ and the brand new Vitals app permits customers to rapidly verify in on key well being metrics at a look and acquire higher context on their well being.² The power to measure coaching load helps customers make extra knowledgeable choices 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 extra help for customers who’re pregnant.

The Sensible Stack and Photographs face use intelligence to supply a extra individualized expertise, and Verify 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 provide a function to assist determine indicators of sleep apnea. To detect indicators of sleep apnea, Apple Watch makes use of the accelerometer to watch 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 categorized as elevated or not elevated, and will be considered over a one-month, six-month, or one-year interval.

Following an onboarding for the function, the brand new sleep apnea notifications algorithm analyzes respiratory disturbance knowledge each 30 days, so Apple Watch can notify a person 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 in search of remedy, together with a PDF offering three months of respiratory 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 function was developed with superior machine studying and coaching knowledge from hundreds of nights of clinical-grade sleep apnea assessments, and validated within the largest examine ever performed for the FDA clearance of a sleep apnea gadget. Following FDA 510(okay) clearance and extra international well being authority authorizations, sleep apnea notifications at the moment are out there in additional than 150 international locations and areas, together with the U.S., the EU, and Japan.

Vitals App

The brand new Vitals app offers customers a technique to verify in on their each 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 adjustments in these particular metrics could also be linked to different elements of their life, resembling elevation adjustments, 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 Research, analysis that goals to advance the understanding of the hyperlinks between coronary heart well being and bodily exercise.

Coaching Load

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

Apple Watch will set up a 28-day coaching load, a weighted common bearing in mind 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 scores 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 mix of exercise metrics to routinely generate an estimated effort score that customers can manually alter. For exercises the place an automated estimate will not be 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, categorized as effectively under, under, regular, above, or effectively above. This gives 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 alter their coaching for the perfect outcomes. Extra info within the Health app on iPhone additional particulars the potential affect on their health in the event that they proceed to coach at that present degree, like potential adjustments in health or threat of harm.

Extra Customizable Exercise Rings

With watchOS 11, Exercise rings are much more customizable. Exercise ring objectives can now be custom-made by the day of the week, so they’re completely fitted to customers’ schedules. Whether or not customers are planning a relaxation day throughout their coaching or simply want a day without work, 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 gives customers the power to customise the Abstract tab.

Extra Help Throughout Being pregnant

watchOS 11, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18 provide extra help for customers who log a being pregnant within the Well being app, to mirror adjustments of their bodily and psychological well being throughout this vital time. On Apple Watch, the Cycle Monitoring app will present a person’s gestational age and permit them to log signs for issues continuously skilled throughout being pregnant. Within the Well being app, they can even be prompted to evaluation issues like their excessive coronary heart fee notification threshold, since coronary heart fee tends to extend throughout being pregnant.

Extra Personalised Sensible Stack

The Sensible Stack is designed to assist customers rapidly entry vital info from any watch face, and now makes use of intelligence so as to add and recommend widgets primarily based on time, date, location, each day routines, and extra, so it’s even easier to entry options on Apple Watch when a person wants them. New widgets — together with Photographs, Distance, Shazam, and extra — are additionally now out there; new interactive widgets permit customers to work together with an app instantly from the Sensible Stack; and Stay Actions is now out there on Apple Watch inside the Sensible Stack.

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

Verify In involves Apple Watch, and will be accessed instantly from the Exercise app along with Messages. Customers can now begin a Verify In at some point of their exercise — whether or not it’s an early morning run or late-night fitness center session — so a good friend or member of the family can maintain an eye fixed out for his or her exercise to finish.

The Translate app is now out there on Apple Watch, utilizing machine studying for speech recognition and speedy translation that customers can entry instantly on their wrist. The Sensible Stack may even routinely floor the Translate app widget when customers are touring to a location with a language that’s totally different from their Apple Watch.

The double faucet gesture can now be used to scroll via 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 person choose their greatest photograph choices by utilizing machine studying to make suggestions primarily based on aesthetics, composition, and even facial expressions. A customized algorithm then finds the perfect composition by optimizing for the topic’s place inside the body and creating a way of depth, and the Photographs face now gives Dynamic mode so a brand new picture can seem each time a person raises their wrist.

• The Flux face encompasses a daring graphic design that fills the display with coloration second by second, benefiting from the larger show and 1Hz refresh on Apple Watch Collection 10.

• The Reflections face encompasses a distinctive shimmering dial that reacts subtly to person actions.

Tides App

To assist customers plan and revel in open water actions and keep conscious of fixing 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 peak and path, and dawn and sundown, all plotted in opposition to a timeline. Customers may view seashores close to their location on a handy map, and new issues present present tide info for his or her favourite spots or the closest seashores at a look.

Extra watchOS 11 Updates

• Extra exercise varieties out there within the Exercise app — like Soccer, American Soccer, Australian Soccer, Outside Hockey, Lacrosse, Downhill Snowboarding, Cross Nation Snowboarding, Snowboarding, Golf, Outside Rowing, and extra — can now monitor distance. Route maps are additionally out there for extra exercise varieties.