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.
- Customized Exercises can now be created for pool swims, and a brand new Up Subsequent exercise view for every type of Customized Exercises can present what stays within the present interval and supply a snapshot of the upcoming interval.
- Apple Maps gives hikes throughout U.S. nationwide parks, and customers may create their very own customized mountaineering and strolling routes inside the Maps app on iPhone. These routes will be saved to Apple Watch and accessed offline with turn-by-turn steerage, even with out an iPhone close by.
- Summarized notifications, powered by Apple Intelligence, shall be forwarded from iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Professional, iPhone 16 Professional Max, iPhone 15 Professional, and iPhone 15 Professional Max to Apple Watch.3
- The brand new tickets in Apple Pockets expertise supplies much more info, resembling when a venue opens, in addition to a Stay Exercise that shows seat and different related info on the high of the Sensible Stack.4
- With Faucet to Money, customers can ship and obtain Apple Money by merely holding their Apple Watch close to one other Apple Watch or iPhone.5
Privateness
Privateness is prime within the design and growth 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, which means that Apple doesn’t have the important thing to decrypt the information and subsequently can not learn it.
Availability
watchOS 11 is accessible at this time for Apple Watch Collection 6 and later, and requires iPhone XS or later working iOS 18. Not all options can be found on all units and in all areas.
- 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. A whole checklist of areas is accessible at apple.com/watchos/feature-availability. The function is supported on Apple Watch Collection 9, Apple Watch Collection 10, and Apple Watch Extremely 2. It’s supposed to detect indicators of reasonable to extreme sleep apnea for folks 18 years previous or older with no prognosis of sleep apnea.
- The Vitals app is for wellness functions solely and never for medical use.
- Apple Intelligence shall be out there as a free software program replace. The primary set of Apple Intelligence options shall be out there in beta subsequent month as a part of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, with extra options rolling out within the months to return. It will likely be out there on iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Professional, iPhone 16 Professional Max, iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later, with gadget and Siri language set to U.S. English. Extra languages and platforms are coming over the course of the following yr. Later this yr, Apple Intelligence will add help for localized English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.Okay. Within the coming yr, Apple Intelligence will increase to extra languages, like Chinese language, French, Japanese, and Spanish.
- Ticket enhancements in Apple Pockets can be found for occasions from taking part ticket issuers.
- Apple Money companies are offered by Inexperienced Dot Financial institution. Member FDIC. Apple Funds Companies LLC, a subsidiary of Apple Inc., is a service supplier of Inexperienced Dot Financial institution for Apple Money accounts. Neither Apple Inc. nor Apple Funds Companies LLC is a financial institution. Be taught extra in regards to the Phrases and Circumstances. Solely out there within the U.S. on eligible units.
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