June 10, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
watchOS 11 brings highly effective well being and health insights, and much more personalization and connectivity
Introducing the Vitals app, coaching load, new methods to tailor Exercise rings, clever customization of the Sensible Stack and Images face, and the Translate app on Apple Watch
Cupertino, California Apple immediately previewed watchOS 11, with options for Apple Watch that construct on its main sensor expertise, superior algorithms, and science-based method to supply breakthrough insights into customers’ well being and health, and extra personalization than ever. The brand new Vitals app surfaces key well being metrics and context to assist customers make extra knowledgeable day-to-day selections, and the power to measure coaching load gives a game-changing new expertise when figuring out for improved health and efficiency. Exercise rings are much more customizable, the Sensible Stack and Images face use intelligence to characteristic extra individualization, and Apple Watch and the Well being app on iPhone and iPad supply extra assist for customers who’re pregnant. Test In, the Translate app, and new capabilities for the double faucet gesture come to Apple Look ahead to added connectivity and comfort.
“watchOS is the world’s most superior wearable working system, supporting Apple Watch customers all through their day to remain wholesome, energetic, and linked,” stated David Clark, Apple’s senior director of watchOS Engineering. “This fall, watchOS 11 makes Apple Watch an much more important companion by providing customers extra actionable insights into their well being and health, extra personalization to suit their distinctive wants, and new methods to remain linked whereas on the go.”
The Vitals App Surfaces Higher Insights into Key Well being Metrics
Apple Watch permits customers to measure vital well being metrics throughout sleep: coronary heart fee, respiratory fee, wrist temperature, sleep length, and blood oxygen. With watchOS 11, the brand new Vitals app provides customers a method to rapidly view these key well being metrics and achieve higher context in the case of their well being. Apple Watch analyzes these metrics so customers can now test in on their every day well being standing and discover noteworthy metrics at a look, and simply see when they’re out of a person’s 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 features of their life, reminiscent of elevation adjustments, alcohol consumption, and even sickness.
Apple’s well being options are grounded in science and developed with enter from scientific specialists. 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 coronary heart well being and bodily exercise.
Further Help Throughout Being pregnant
watchOS 11, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18 supply extra assist for pregnant customers to mirror adjustments of their bodily and psychological well being throughout this vital time. When customers log a being pregnant within the Well being app on iPhone or iPad, the Cycle Monitoring app on Apple Watch will present their gestational age and permit them to log signs for issues regularly skilled throughout being pregnant. They may even be prompted to evaluation issues like their excessive coronary heart fee notification threshold, since coronary heart fee tends to extend throughout being pregnant.
Within the Well being app on iPhone or iPad, pregnant customers can even select to be reminded to take a psychological well being evaluation on a month-to-month foundation, as folks will be at a better threat for situations like despair throughout and after being pregnant. Strolling Steadiness, measured by iPhone, can even alert customers extra rapidly of potential fall threat through the third trimester of being pregnant, because the threat usually will increase throughout that stage.
A Highly effective New Understanding of Coaching Load
watchOS 11 introduces coaching load, an insightful new method to measure how the depth and length of exercises is impacting a person’s physique over time. Coaching load helps customers perceive the pressure on their physique from exercises during the last seven days in comparison with the final 28 days. These insights can assist customers make knowledgeable selections about their coaching every day, notably when getting ready for an occasion — whether or not it’s their first 5K, a motorcycle race, or a marathon.
To measure depth, a brand new effort ranking will likely be obtainable after every exercise to trace how tough it was on a scale from 1 to 10. Fashionable cardio-based exercise varieties will make use of an modern new algorithm to robotically generate an estimated effort ranking, utilizing a mix of knowledge sources like age, top, and weight, alongside exercise knowledge like GPS, coronary heart fee, and elevation. Customers can even manually regulate this estimate to consider different elements reminiscent of stress or soreness. For exercises the place an automated estimate just isn’t supplied — like power coaching — customers can nonetheless enter an effort ranking on the finish of every exercise.
Apple Watch will set up a 28-day coaching load, a weighted common considering each the hassle scores and length of customers’ exercises over this era. Within the Exercise app, customers can see how their coaching load for the newest seven days compares to their 28-day coaching load, labeled as properly under, under, regular, above, or properly above. This helps point out if the present pressure on their physique is ramping up, staying the identical, or easing off to allow them to regulate their coaching for the perfect outcomes. Further info within the Health app on iPhone additional particulars the doable impression on their health in the event that they proceed to coach at that present stage, like potential adjustments in health or threat of harm.
A person’s every day well being standing and talent to coach will be intertwined, so coaching load will be considered alongside info from the Vitals app within the Exercise app on Apple Watch or the Health app on iPhone. Customers can even view their coaching load throughout the Vitals app.
Extra Customizable Exercise Rings and Health App
Each day, Exercise rings maintain Apple Watch customers motivated to sit down much less, transfer extra, and get some train — and with watchOS 11, they’re much more customizable. Whether or not customers are planning a relaxation day throughout their coaching, have an harm, or simply want a time without work, they now have the power to pause their rings for a day, week, month, or extra — with out affecting their award streaks. Customers can even customise their Exercise ring objectives by the day of the week, so the rings present the correct amount of motivation on the proper moments.
Moreover, the Health app on iPhone gives customers the power to customise the Abstract tab to see precisely what they wish to see, together with new metrics for exercises like operating, mountain climbing, swimming, and mindfulness.
Apple Health+ has been redesigned in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and tvOS 18 to assist customers profit from its strong library, keep motivated, and maintain in step with their health routine. Updates embody a customized For You house, Discover and Library areas, search options, and enhanced awards.
The Sensible Stack and Images Face Add Personalization
Apple Watch gives a wide range of methods for customers to customise their expertise, and updates in watchOS 11 make Apple Watch extra personalised and handy than ever.
The Sensible Stack is designed to assist customers rapidly entry vital info from any watch face, and in watchOS 11, it’s much more clever. New widgets together with Shazam, Images, Distance, and extra at the moment are obtainable. Moreover, the Sensible Stack can recommend widgets primarily based on time, date, location, every day routines, and extra so it’s even less complicated to entry options on Apple Watch when a person wants them. For instance, the brand new extreme climate alerts widget can seem earlier than a thunderstorm. New interactive widgets permit customers to work together with an app straight from the Sensible Stack, and Stay Actions can also be now obtainable on Apple Watch throughout the Sensible Stack.
In watchOS 11, the Images watch face can assist a person choose their greatest photograph choices by rapidly analyzing hundreds of photographs utilizing machine studying and making suggestions primarily based on aesthetics, composition, and even facial expressions. Then, a customized algorithm finds the perfect composition by optimizing for the topic’s place throughout the body and creating a way of depth. Customers can additional personalize the face with time sizes, layouts, font selections, and extra, and the Images face now gives Dynamic mode so customers will be delighted by a brand new picture each time they increase their wrist.
Even Extra Comfort and Methods to Keep Linked
To assist customers really feel much more linked and secure, Test In is now obtainable on Apple Watch, together with throughout exercises. Whether or not customers are heading out on an early morning run or to a late-night health club session, they will entry Test In straight throughout the Exercise app so a pal or member of the family can maintain a watch out for his or her exercise to finish. Customers can even begin a Test In from Messages, like they will on iPhone.
The Translate app additionally involves Apple Watch, so customers can entry translation for certainly one of 20 supported languages straight on their wrist. With the brand new intelligence of the Sensible Stack, Apple Watch can robotically supply a advised Translate app widget when customers are touring to a location with a language that’s totally different from their Apple Watch. And Translate now offers romanization, the pronunciation for languages utilizing the Latin alphabet.
Moreover, the double faucet gesture can now be used to scroll by means of any app — like Messages, Calendar, or Climate — making it even simpler to work together with Apple Watch with one hand.
Further updates in watchOS 11 embody:
- The Exercise app gives much more exercise varieties that may observe distance utilizing enhancements in GPS positioning, together with Soccer, American Soccer, Australian Soccer, Outside Hockey, Lacrosse, Downhill Snowboarding, Cross Nation Snowboarding, Snowboarding, Golf, Outside Rowing, and extra. Customers can even see their route maps for extra exercise varieties.
- Customized Exercises can now be used for Pool Swims, permitting customers to customise an interval-based exercise with assist for units of labor and restoration, and haptics to sign it’s time to transfer on to the following interval. Throughout any Customized Exercise, a brand new Up Subsequent exercise view can present what stays within the present interval and supply a snapshot of the upcoming interval.
- Apple Maps gives hikes for all U.S. nationwide parks, which will be saved to Apple Watch and accessed offline with turn-by-turn steerage, even with out an iPhone close by. Customers can even create their very own strolling routes throughout the Maps app on iPhone and save the route, to allow them to later navigate it with simply their Apple Watch.
- Summarized notifications, powered by Apple Intelligence, will likely be forwarded from iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max to Apple Watch.1
- Enhanced ticketing improves info supplied to customers on tickets in Apple Pockets, reminiscent of when the venue opens and when the present begins. A Stay Exercise will begin on the occasion so customers can see their seats and different vital info on the prime of the Sensible Stack.
- With Faucet to Money, customers will have the ability to ship and obtain Apple Money by merely holding their Apple Watch close to one other Apple Watch or iPhone.
New Instruments for Builders
watchOS 11 contains new APIs that permit builders to make the most of the elevated intelligence and capabilities of the Sensible Stack, and the magical expertise of the double faucet gesture.
Builders can incorporate relevancy cues like time and date to have vital info from their app seem at simply the precise time within the Sensible Stack, and may now add capabilities like interactivity to their widgets. Stay Actions will robotically present up within the Sensible Stack, so customers can see updates within the second, like when an order is prepared at Panera Bread or a flight’s gate has modified with Flighty. Builders can use an API to customise how a Stay Exercise surfaces on Apple Watch.
Moreover, the brand new Double Faucet API permits builders to outline actions inside apps that customers can full with only one hand, reminiscent of logging their child’s time asleep on Sprout’s Child Tracker app.
Privateness
Privateness is key within the design and improvement throughout all of Apple’s options. When a person’s gadget is locked with a passcode, Contact ID, or Face ID, all of their well being and health knowledge within the Well being app — apart from Medical ID — is encrypted. Any Well being knowledge backed as much as iCloud is encrypted each in transit and on Apple servers. When utilizing iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS with the default two-factor authentication and a passcode, Well being app knowledge synced to iCloud is encrypted end-to-end, that means that Apple doesn’t have the important thing to decrypt the information and due to this fact can not learn it.
Availability
The developer beta of watchOS 11 is obtainable to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning immediately. A public beta will likely be obtainable to watchOS customers subsequent month at beta.apple.com. watchOS 11 will likely be obtainable this fall as a free software program replace for Apple Watch Collection 6 or later paired with iPhone Xs or later, operating iOS 18. Some options might not be obtainable in all areas or all languages, or on all gadgets. Options are topic to alter. For extra info, go to apple.com/watchos/watchos-preview.
About Apple
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