Touch ID would be awesome because it would help make the Apple Watch more independent of the iPhone. If you use your watch without an iPhone typing in the passcode quickly becomes a pain.
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Apple Watch Series 6 Could Feature Touch ID Fingerprint Sensor, Pulse Oximetry and Sleep Tracking Support
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If it is getting sleep tracking support, the battery needs to be significantly longer. Make the components as small as you can, increase the battery size, make the S series chip more power efficient.
agreed we finally have an innovation rumor of the Apple Watch.
Every time you put it so. So yeah, should just be once a day unless you take it off a lot for some reason
I wear an Abbott Freestyle Libre sensor which I scan using my iPhone 8. (I’m T1D.) I get notifications on my Apple Watch s3 when Libre sensor needs to be replaced, but it would be great to have scanning ability within an Apple Watch.
I get the convenience of a trade-in, but you should sell it yourself. You should sell ALL of your Apple products yourself because you would very likely make at least double the trade-in offers. I sold my 38mm Stainless S3 with cellular for $450 back in October to get the S5. I had it for just under two years. Same thing with phones. I also sold my 256GB iPhone X back in November for $500 after having it for two years. Trade-in on my watch likely would’ve been about $100, and the phone maybe $300.
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Can you provide a valid reason why it should be thinner? (I mean, other than you just want it thinner.) The Apple Watch is relatively thin to begin with, and I pose the rebuttal, look at the other smart watches on the market, they’re substantially thicker/heavier than the Apple Watch. The Apple Watch is actually one of the smaller Smart watches compared to the Fenix Garmin and the Gear series as competition.
Also, Given Apple actually increased the battery thickness, I don’t see the Apple Watch becoming any ‘thinner’ (Plus you have the Haptic engine), not unless the display technology shifts to micro-LED.
"unlocking it on a standalone basis requires a numerical code to be entered."
It's a 4 digit code. That's hardly high tech crypto.
It's a 4 digit code. That's hardly high tech crypto.
I’ve wondered that too. I wonder if they’d ever do a smart connector similar to the iPad Pro, but put it where the band slides into that slot. Maybe it could get power from that and tighten around your wrist. I was thinking to put it there so it retains backwards compatibility with existing bands.
Especially with sleep monitoring. Apnea patients stop breathing while sleeping. What matters a lot though is oxygen level in the blood.
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Some combination of increased battery storage and reduce power draw in order to get mean time between recharging above 36 hours would be nice. Maybe a watch face with an embedded photo voltaic power source would help?
I feel like touchid on the watch is unnecessary. Yes it would be nice for that 1 time a day i'm putting the watch on, but feels like overkill.
Or skin temperature measurement. Seems like there should be ways to track that that are useful as a generic "body temperature" measurement?
Would touch ID be used for future CarKey feature being talked about lately? Use the watch independent of not having iphone for faceid to communicate with NFC in car
No. CarKey doesn’t require any interaction with the device, or even any battery power. It uses nfc the same way as the transit stuff in iOS.
Sleep tracking together with pulse ox gives you info on whether or not you have sleep apnea as well. I think this will be a huge upgrade.
I usually take off my watch when I wash my hands. I cant stand the feeling of a wet watch band.
I use my Apple Watch now to unlock my Mac. It’s just a setting under security and Privacy.