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Apple Today Announced These Four New Features Are Coming to Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2
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you could also put it another way: watchOS 11, which I am sure is required for these, brings new features to existing AW models ...
Absolutely. The silent alarm that wakes just me up and not my wife saves our marriage every day at 5am.
What dumb negative comment. The UW1 does not have the S9 chip necessary to implement these features.
Are we are talking about using the speaker from the watch?!
Even a second gen iPod touch can do that!!
It's on my series 7. But yes should also be apart of the weather app
Finding out you have sleep apnea on an Apple Watch, yet still have to go in and get a test from a sleep specialist to later get a prescription for a CPAP, priceless.
I would have had my sleep tested long ago if I was concerned about sleep apnea.
I don't get the appeal of the Apple Watch Ultra. Are there really that many "athletes" / outdoor people? Like who the hell wants to be in "nature" more?
My S6 AW is gonna give up any time. An upgrade to Aw ultra2 or even S10 will be great update.
Battery life. And you don’t have to live in nature, a few hiking trips a month make it worth.
Then don’t get one.
Do sports car drivers have to go on a track? Do SUV drivers have to go off road?
Yes. The only time I don’t wear a watch is when I take a shower.
Why isn't MacRumors (or Apple) reporting this then? As reported, it does indeed sound outrageous. If it turns out that the Ultra 1 isn't getting features it's completely capable of, like sleep apnea detection, action button improvements, and speaker playback, then I'm done with Apple. The Ultra 1 isn't even two years old!
I know this may come as a shock, but some folks like having good battery life and a titanium body.
CRAZY, I know.
The sleep apnea probably does depend on the more capable background acceleration sensor, so that one I can understand not coming to UW1
Are we in for a wave of people blasting more tinny music in public? And probably some people who don't realize their watch started playing a podcast.
Possibly, though the recent watch models can all track respiration, including the series 7. Is tracking the intermittent lack thereof that much of a higher sensitivity requirement?
Not being antagonistic with this response, btw. Genuine question!
Some of you commenters need to calm your farm.
Confirmed working on my Ultra gen 1 running watchOS 11 release candidate: Tides app, Action button switching.
Confirmed not working (or at least I haven’t figured out how to get it to work): music playback over built-in speaker.
Don’t know if it works, but not counting on it: sleep apnoea detection.
Confirmed working on my Ultra gen 1 running watchOS 11 release candidate: Tides app, Action button switching.
Confirmed not working (or at least I haven’t figured out how to get it to work): music playback over built-in speaker.
Don’t know if it works, but not counting on it: sleep apnoea detection.
Not sure, just find it at least plausible that would have a technical reason.
The quick switch function does seem to be present, but lack of speaker playback I certainly can't see a reasonable reason for lacking.. as far as I'm aware nothing changed in that regard from UW1 to 2.
The quick switch function does seem to be present, but lack of speaker playback I certainly can't see a reasonable reason for lacking.. as far as I'm aware nothing changed in that regard from UW1 to 2.