Apple Watch Ultra's Customizable Action Button Can Launch Shortcuts, Plus a Whole Lot More

[MacGekko]

Apple is marketing its toughness, durability, and additional usefulness. Apple is not marketing it as something with week-long regular battery life. So bring a power bank if you're going to be gone for longer than its published battery life.

We shall agree to disagree although they are including those characteristics as well but in the spirit of bringing this country together, you win, I shall bring a powerbank the next time I attempt to scale Mt. Everest.

 

[Born Again]

Just pack a powerbank, but you shouldn't need an iPhone.

You know how ridiculous this sounds to garmin users who have multiple week battery life added said hike?

No I’m not hiking with a power bank. No sane person should.

Just get a garmin.

If you want to pretend you’re rugged get an Apple Watch maxi pad ultra.

Btw I have an Apple Watch Series 4 that’s good enough for dog walks and short runs. I truly believe most people should be fine with the basic Apple Watches.

Ultra is straight up marketing hype.

 

[Born Again]

Not sure why people keep bringing up battery life of Garmins vs Apple Watches — they’re different products: 1. Is a restricted non-ecosystem sports watch w zero multimedia and messaging capabilities and the other 2. The Apple Watch ultra is a sports watch dialed and completely tied in ecosystem, multimedia, messaging and phone capabilities (basically a future high tech Dick Tracy watch)

They’re different products that fulfill different goals that sometimes run on parallel paths — so the comparisons are highly flawed

You clearly aren’t an athlete or you would have had a valid point.

Let me help you. Battery life is everything to an endurance athlete.

Apple Watch maxi pad ultra is not a replacement watch for real athletes.

Again let’s have other athletes chime in. I’m just not going to hear from someone who clearly hasn’t competed in an ultra or Ironman let alone a marathon.

 

[_Spinn_]

I'm very excited to hear real world reviews for the Ultra.

 

[Aniseedvan]

I think that a lot of people here are underestimating the Apple Watch battery. Today I went for a hike without my iPhone and with my series 7 (89 % battery health). Started at 100 %, more than 2 hours, always on display disabled, playing downloaded music to an AirPods Pro, constantly checking the screen because I was following the route, heart rate constantly monitoring, GPS on, LTE on but because bad signal more battery was drained. I finished with 40 % battery. So if the Ultra has double the battery, you are not streaming any music and only activates the LTE when needed, I would say it should probably last several hours.

I see someone else has an s7 with poor battery health!
I’d say walking for more than a couple of hours most people take a battery pack with them. I remember the last time I attempted to track a walk with my Apple Watch on an event it managed about 4/5 hours and shut the gps down whilst I charged it on the go (I think this was a s3 or s5). If the ultra can manage about 10-12 hours and will fast charge from a PD pack whilst I’m at a halfway point eating food/changing clothes it should make a 100k (walking). I know I’m an edge case here, most garmins struggle to record “normally” for 24+ hours, polar had this nailed a few years ago (but the watch outside the basic tracking was terrible!).

 

[darngooddesign]

You know how ridiculous this sounds to garmin users who have multiple week battery life added said hike?

No I’m not hiking with a power bank. No sane person should.

Just get a garmin.

If you want to pretend you’re rugged get an Apple Watch maxi pad ultra.

Btw I have an Apple Watch Series 4 that’s good enough for dog walks and short runs. I truly believe most people should be fine with the basic Apple Watches.

Ultra is straight up marketing hype.

I mean... all marketing is hype.

It's really simple, if multi-week battery life is the most important feature get something else, if the benefits of the Ultra and watchOS are more important than get the Apple Watch and toss a powerbank in your backpack. Powerbanks are small so its not like you're hauling a car battery, and you probably brought one anyway for your other electronics.

 

[djphat2000]

Guessing no colors because it would get scratched up easier

Shouldn’t we be getting reviews today of it.

Was looking at the highlight colors. So instead of the "International Orange". We could have those other colors I mentioned.

 

[Born Again]

I mean... all marketing is hype.

It's really simple, if multi-week battery life is the most important feature get something else, if the benefits of the Ultra and watchOS are more important than get the Apple Watch and toss a powerbank in your backpack. Powerbanks are small so it’s not like you're hauling a car battery, and you probably brought one anyway for your other electronics.

Maybe Apple Watch ultra edition 10 won’t require a power bank?

Until then for the serious athletes this watch is a hard pass as a garmin watch doesn’t need a power bank.

Looking forward to the YouTube videos with real world use cases

 

[darngooddesign]

Maybe Apple Watch ultra edition 10 won’t require a power bank?

Until then for the serious athletes this watch is a hard pass as a garmin watch doesn’t need a power bank.

Looking forward to the YouTube videos with real world use cases

It will meet the needs of some serious athletes, but not others.

It will probably give around two or three days battery life.

 

[urnotl33t]

That would be a nice option too. Press the crown then spin it through recent apps.

Change your app view:
On the watch: Settings - App View - List View

Well, that's ALL the apps versus recent but... close enough, maybe?