Apple has conscionable released watchOS 11, the latest type of its smartwatch operating system, alongside iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. The update, available for the Apple Watch Series 6 and later models, will yet let users to return remainder days without breaking their activity streak and introduces FDA-cleared sleep apnea detection.
Sleep apnea is simply a information that tin origin a personification to extremity breathing during slumber and tin lead to an accrued consequence of hypertension and Type 2 glucosuria if near untreated. Apple’s slumber apnea discovery feature, which uses the accelerometer to show for mini wrist movements associated pinch slumber interruptions, was announced alongside the caller Apple Watch Series 10 and is now disposable for some the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra 2. If slumber apnea is detected, the Apple Watch will alert the personification and supply further accusation that tin beryllium shared pinch a doctor, who tin make a general diagnosis.
Other wellness features now disposable pinch watchOS 11 see Training Load, which compares the strength and long of workouts complete the past week to the past 28 days truthful athletes tin spot if the strain connected their assemblage is supra aliases beneath their erstwhile efforts. Activity Rings tin besides now beryllium paused, allowing users to return breaks for wounded aliases unwellness without ending their streak, while the fittingness app’s summary tab tin beryllium customized truthful users tin prioritize widgets showing the wellness metrics they attraction astir about.
A caller Vitals app provides an overnight summary of wellness metrics for illustration bosom rate, breathing rate, wrist temperature, humor oxygen levels, and really agelong you slept, and the Apple Watch’s Cycle Tracking will besides show gestational property — the existent magnitude of a gestation — and adds the expertise to way gestation symptoms.
The Apple Watch’s double pat motion tin now beryllium utilized to scroll done apps for illustration Messages aliases Calendar, while the Translate app is now disposable connected your wrist pinch support for 20 languages and will automatically popular up successful the Smart Stack erstwhile walking to an area pinch a connection different than your own.
The Photos watchface has been redesigned for watchOS 11, too, and now uses instrumentality learning to hunt done your room and urge which photos would make for bully watchfaces based connected criteria for illustration composition, aesthetics, and facial expressions. The timepiece will beryllium framed astir the selected image automatically, but you’ll besides beryllium capable to customize the layout of the face, including a preferred font for the time.