watchOS 26: 10 New Things Your Apple Watch Can Do

[aloyouis]

Cool... but where's Blood Oxygen?!

Tied up in the courts. Apple needs to innovate or pay up. Of course it is easy for me to say I have it on my AW2.

 

[Mat Jam Car]

But, does it still count steps and flights climbed when driving? I’m sure it will.

 

[dwsolberg]

How exactly does CarPlay suggesting home as a destination on the screen hurt you in some way? It suggests the most common place based on your patterns. If you do not need directions, just ignore it.

It takes over the screen, which requires me to cancel it each time I want to look at the map. I find it annoying to do while driving, so I’d like to turn off this sort of AI.

At least for me, I almost always know how to get to home.

 

[kooBi_]

Thank Feck they are giving us a notes app. Most of the ones i seen on the app store where subscription only, F that

Absolutely. Ridiculous that it wasn’t there already

 

[BGPL]

And yet the stopwatch still hides the seconds when it's "not facing you", which never works. Once the seconds disappear, good luck getting them back.

 

[DogHouseDub]

I had apple watches and moved to Garmin 7x. It's extremely reliable and as good for tracking as apple watch. The error of margin is so small that negligible. If you want to be pro you need to go pro equippment anyway as both are not good enough.

Garmin is 20d+ battery and this is a killer feature for me. I hated and will hate apple watch for its battery, although it's a very good computer, though a silly idea to have a computer glued to yourself all the time, when I now think about it. All the smart features of apple watch were simply useless to me in the end

I believe you - sounds like the 8x may have stumbled a bit.

 

[SammyG7]

I DONT CARE JUST LET ME OPEN A PDF!!!1!!!

 

[arthography]

Those smart stacks suck, I can’t get to terms with them. Its a big design blunder

 

[BuffaloTF]

I hope the AI features either work well or can be turned off.

As just one example, every time I have Apple Maps on in CarPlay, it ALWAYS thinks I need directions home, even if I’m a block away.

That's not an AI feature. That's a behavior one that's always been there.

 

[dwsolberg]

That's not an AI feature. That's a behavior one that's always been there.

It’s Siri suggestions, which Apple says is powered by AI.

 

[BuffaloTF]

It’s Siri suggestions, which Apple says is powered by AI.

It’s Siri Suggestions, which has existed since CarPlay came out. Many years before AI. Siri is now powered by Apple Intelligence… but its scope is limited to grammar checks in emails, summaries in emails, and quick replies in texts.

 

[Mr. Nice]

I'm still negatively surprised how little Apple has tackled the issue of sports metrics!

Apple has so much data and does nothing with it.

watchOS 26 is a huge disappointment.