APPLE is a technology giant known for its ground-breaking innovations, and every year its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is where magic and technology meet. This year’s conference was no different, revealing major updates for every one of APPLE’s major operating systems, with the new features of the APPLE Watch operating system, WatchOS 11, generating the most excitement. In this article, I intend to familiarize you with the new features and improvements coming to the APPLE Watch later this year.
A prime example of APPLE’s new health and fitness focus is the Training Mode recently introduced in the new WatchOS 11 updates. In this mode, users are given a score to give them a sense of how much effort they put into a workout and can also compare their performance from one run to another, providing users with an objective measure with which to improve their activity levels. With this feature, which also includes incentives for meeting certain goals like running for a set amount of time, APPLE is ultimately making both running and walking easier and more enjoyable experiences for all. They also have an easy way to set fitness goals, whether daily, weekly or hourly, so you’ll always have a benchmark to strive for.
APPLE’s Vitals app now puts all of that together into a single arcing graph, tracking your heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature and sleep patterns at regular intervals. It can also monitor how all four vitals vary in response to environmental factors, such as walking on a treadmill, or drinking alcohol. APPLE has also introduced a new Pregnancy Tracking feature to its existing Cycle Tracking function, which has from the beginning been designed to assist women who are trying to conceive.
These context-sensitive widgets are designed to offer information when you’ll actually benefit from it – for example, displaying precipitation forecasts and translation widgets based on the activities and places where you spend time. And this year, the Smart Stack on WatchOS 11 supports Live Activities, giving developers the potential to bring real-time updates right to the centre of your watch face.
And you can personalise your watch faces to a much greater degree – choose appropriate photos for the background, even tweak colours to tailor that watch to your own personal look. This level of personalisation is possible because APPLE wants you to see the watch as an integral part of you, as something that should change according to your own personality and lifestyle.
None of the many features added to WatchOS 11 are earthshattering on their own. Yet, collectively, all the new features represent the commitment APPLE has made to smartwatch owners around the world to improve their health, fitness and device experience. Due for release later this year (a beta is available now), WatchOS 11 will transform the APPLE Watch into the ultimate timepiece for the 21st century.
The latest updates that APPLE announced at the WWDC show just how much APPLE is dedicated to innovation and user experience. WatchOS 11 is just the beginning of what is in store for APPLE fans. As APPLE continues to create new ways of doing things, the ecosystem will only continue to grow and improve. APPLE continues to dominate the technology space.
At its roots, APPLE’s business is a creative fount of innovation, quality and customer experience. Its hardware ecosystem of iPhone, iPad, Mac, and APPLE Watch, together with its interface abstractions of iOS and macOS, are fundamentals of a company that blends technology and design into powerful devices that are beautiful, capable and easy to use. The Worldwide Developer Conference reminds us of the challenge and opportunity before us as developers. It gives us a glimpse, not just of now, but of tomorrow.
In the end, it really comes down to integrating the APPLE ecosystem: the device itself is one piece of that puzzle, but it’s more of a portrait when the iPhone and APPLE Watch work in tandem. APPLE’s vision is not selling people harmony and universal humanity – instead it’s an applied kind of idealism that might just make our lives better. I’m sure glad to be along for the ride.
In conclusion, while we wait for the release of WatchOS 11 and more exciting leaks from APPLE, I think they will still be the most innovative, and the future for geeks and users is always a fresh new day filled with creativity and new solutions pushing the limits of what we can utilise and use on our APPLE products.
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