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Apple Watch Series 12 and watchOS 27: What to Expect Later This Year

I hope Apple will add an BodyScan/bodycomposition feature to the Apple Watch lineup like I have on my old Samsung Galaxy Watch 4. For things like weight, body fat, bone mass, muscle mass, body water, etc. That is the only feature I am still missing on the new watches.
 
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twinlight said:
I am still using my first gen Ultra so it is time for an upgrade as the battery is getting slightly worse. I wish they could get multiple days of battery, a screen with solar charging abilities, better body and water temperature sensing and some new and more precise health sensors. Also for the love of god, make the screen work with wet fingers.. maybe return force touch.

Touch ID is maybe coming but I see no use for it. Satellite features are welcome but rarely needed for me but it is nice to have. Some day I might end up out at sea or in the wilderness without phone service. It will be great to know that I have the possibility to get help if needed.
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Sir, you can just repair the battery
 
I charge my Ultra 3 after I get my first cup of coffee and start reading the news and emails. Not moving much while reading. I did not need to upgrade, but one in hand beats two in the bush as they say and availability is not guaranteed with the parts shortages we read about now.

When we leave the US for international travel, we switch to Timex inexpensive watches and inexpensive Walmart wedding bands. Less bling to attract unwanted attention. And we do not need an international cell plan for our Apple watches like we put onto our iPhones. My iPhone 17 Pro Max is satellite compatible if needed.

Our clothing looks very "American style" and we have the "Blue" passport from the USA and we speak only America's version of English.

Those three attributes makes us stand out in a crowd of the locals. The locals know we must have money as we are in their country and getting there is not cheap. It is better to be understated than covered in "BLING". Our iPhones are now common nearly everywhere in the world so not the "bling" statement of old.

As we are older, our biggest concern is more like tripping on cobblestone streets or making a less than stellar restaurant choice. A watch is just a watch in most parts of the world and a Timex does not need to be recharged daily....
 
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Yet another year of boring mild refresh of the Apple Watch, without significant new features. People want new and better sensors, possibly a new design, longer lasting battery. Nobody asked for Touch ID on something that only very rarely requires a password (and when it does will probably do anyway, as both touchid and face id require manual password after reboot or using after prolonged inactivity).
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We need longer lasting battery life. Dramatically longer.
 
Touchid would be a good upgrade. I use my watch with a company phone, which requires a password on every connected device. Guess what? Apple doesnt allow you to enter a password on the watch, so i can only unlock the watch via phone… :-(
 
jz0309 said:
that's fair, for me, I see 17 app icons on the grid view (Ultra 2) so hardly ever a need to scroll whereas the dock view only 4 or maybe 5 dock items/apps. But they could give us a choice ...

And I totally agree on the Smart Stack, I never use it and it pops up regularly, really wish there were a way to just turn it off.
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For me the grid is too much, I don’t need all those apps all the time. I use three or four apps consistently and liked having quick access to them.

I’ve learned to cope but it’s not good that my experience with the watch now is less good than it was when I got my first one, in many ways.
 
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Please give it more independence from iPhone. Please have third party devs avoid the "open on iPhone first" thing. It's powerful enough to do onboarding of apps right from the watch. Thank you.
 
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If the Watch 12 actually has a new chip and not just a minor refinement like S9 to S10 I might upgrade from my Series 8. Getting the third generation of essentially the same chip meant that just after a couple of years (starting with watchOS 11) I noticed major slowdown, more frequent app refreshes etc. Is it still usable? Yes, but it's nowhere near the butter smooth experience it delivered before watchOS 11.

As Apple seems to stick with the same CPU/GPU setup for ~3 years in Apple Watch models, getting the first generation Watch of an actually new chip generation means I likely get more "good" years out of it.
 
switz said:
I charge my Ultra 3 after I get my first cup of coffee and start reading the news and emails. Not moving much while reading. I did not need to upgrade, but one in hand beats two in the bush as they say and availability is not guaranteed with the parts shortages we read about now.

When we leave the US for international travel, we switch to Timex inexpensive watches and inexpensive Walmart wedding bands. Less bling to attract unwanted attention. And we do not need an international cell plan for our Apple watches like we put onto our iPhones. My iPhone 17 Pro Max is satellite compatible if needed.

Our clothing looks very "American style" and we have the "Blue" passport from the USA and we speak only America's version of English.

Those three attributes makes us stand out in a crowd of the locals. The locals know we must have money as we are in their country and getting there is not cheap. It is better to be understated than covered in "BLING". Our iPhones are now common nearly everywhere in the world so not the "bling" statement of old.

As we are older, our biggest concern is more like tripping on cobblestone streets or making a less than stellar restaurant choice. A watch is just a watch in most parts of the world and a Timex does not need to be recharged daily....
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I am curious now to where you are going on your 'international travel' that requires this. I would guess by 'Cobblestone streets' you are going to UK/Europe....... sounds risky to me.

Australia has a blue passport btw.
 
The Midlands (UK), Vienna (Austria), Florence (Italy), Lucerne (Switzerland), Talin (Estonia), Southern France and Bulgaria. We will be there over 10 weeks. We had a flat in Birmingham for 18 years so we could take turns with my wife's brother carrying for their mother in a nursing home, paralyzed one side and aphasia for those 18 years. Her father passed about two years back.

This might be our last hurrah going to Europe.
 
I think I'm done with apple watch until theres a redesign. preferably with a round face. i'm kind of just over the current look.
 
Instead of complaining, give your Apple Watch to some charity after initializing it and buy some other brand of electronic time device or perish the thought, buy a real honest to goodness time piece with not one battery to ever change. Timex brand are cheap and reliable, as an example.

You will be really surprised once an Apple Watch is off your wrist for a few days, it feels refreshing to wear a non-battery device.

And if you leave the cell phone home and go for a walk, your exact location information has ceased to exist if outside of the surveillance cameras on every street corner.

That my friends is a real refreshing feeling and consider enjoying it while we still can.....

That is why I enjoy wearing my 59 year old self winding Rolex. It shows two time zones (as needed while I was in the Navy) plus the date. Paper maps are still available....
 
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The Midlands (UK), Vienna (Austria), Florence (Italy), Lucerne (Switzerland), Talin (Estonia), Southern France and Bulgaria. We will be there over 10 weeks. We had a flat in Birmingham for 18 years so we could take turns with my wife's brother carrying for their mother in a nursing home, paralyzed one side and aphasia for those 18 years. Her father passed about two years back.

This might be our last hurrah going to Europe.
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Ah Lucerne lovely place.
 
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