6 Features I'd Like To See On The Apple Watch Series 11 - Including A Big One For Health

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We're a time distant from 1 of nan biggest tech events of nan year. Apple's "Awe-dropping" iPhone event takes spot connected Tuesday successful Cupertino, wherever nan tech elephantine will uncover its latest handsets and devices. Rumors swirl astir Apple's thinnest iPhone, caller AirTags, and 3 caller Apple Watch drops.

As a wellness wearables editor, nan second peculiarly excites me. In nan lead-up to Apple's event, I've rounded up respective Apple Watch rumors, for illustration nan Apple Watch Ultra 3's outer connectivity upgrades aliases hypertension monitoring. 

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But earlier immoderate of those rumors are confirmed tomorrow, I want to constitute up a wishlist coming of each nan features I'd emotion to spot connected nan adjacent lineup of Apple Watches. 

1. Longer battery 

Wouldn't it beryllium bully if your smartwatch's artillery lasted much than a day? There are features you tin alteration aliases disable to prolong your watch's artillery for up to 36 hours, but what if Apple's smartwatches lasted astatine slightest a fewer days pinch nary battery-saving adjustments? This is usually nan wish among users astir merchandise motorboat season. 

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Apple has made improvements to its artillery life and charging wrong nan past fewer years. On its Series 10 smartwatch, which debuted past year, nan watch's artillery life tin spell from 0 to 85% wrong 30 minutes. To continuously seizure my workout aliases slumber information aliases enactment connected erstwhile my telephone is not wrong arm's reach, my smartwatch needs to person each nan artillery powerfulness it tin muster. I dream Apple acknowledges this wide wish successful its caller smartwatch lineup. 

2. Brighter display

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As I reviewed nan season's different basking smartwatches, I recovered a magic number crossed nan board. Both Google's Pixel Watch 4 and Samsung's Galaxy Watch lineup boast a brightness level of 3,000 nits. The only Apple smartwatch pinch this brightness is nan Ultra 2, and nan Series 10's highest brightness comes successful astatine 2,000 nits. 

I wouldn't beryllium amazed if Apple is making its latest smartwatch lineup brighter to compete pinch its rivals' specs. Increased brightness besides keeps nan watch viewable and vivid, nary matter nan environment. 

3. Even thinner 

The champion wearable tech feels discreet and ray connected its wearer. If a institution wants users to support these devices pinch them 24/7, nan instrumentality must beryllium comfortable and unintrusive. 

Apple made strides successful this section past twelvemonth erstwhile it debuted its thinnest Apple Watch ever successful nan Series 10. I had utilized its chunkier Series 9 earlier past and saw superior improvements erstwhile I slept pinch nan newer watch. Let's support nan bladed and discreet vibes going pinch nan Apple Watch Series 11. There are talks that nan tech elephantine will release a bladed smartphone this Tuesday, truthful why not widen that build to its smartwatches? 

4. More FDA-cleared health-tracking features 

One measurement Apple differentiates itself from its title is done its investigation and FDA-cleared features that beforehand its wellness and wellness missions. Apple doesn't conscionable propulsion a health-tracking characteristic retired of bladed aerial to slap it onto its devices. 

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Several of Apple Health's studies person resulted successful groundbreaking instrumentality features, for illustration nan FDA-cleared slumber apnea discovery characteristic successful nan Series 10 aliases nan proceeding nonaccomplishment discovery characteristic successful nan AirPods Pro 2. 

As Apple competes pinch its competitors to create standout smartwatch wellness features, I dream medical-grade advancements play a awesome domiciled successful this caller lineup. 

5. Sleep scores 

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It mightiness look contradictory to wish for much FDA-cleared wellness features while besides asking for subjective slumber scores. Oh well, can't a woman person both? While its devices tin accurately seizure slumber stages and clip spent asleep, slumber scores are 1 area wherever Apple has lagged down nan competition. The closest we get to that is done nan Vitals smartwatch app, which shows users whether their wrist temperature, respiration rate, bosom rate, and clip spent dormant were wrong a user's normal range. 

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This is simply a very technological attack to sleep-tracking. The onus is connected nan personification to parse done that information and measure their health. Apple and its AI could thief nan personification on by offering actionable summaries of slumber and activity data, utilizing nan information it's already collecting to supply users pinch moreover much insights into their slumber and recovery.  

The tech marque seems hesitant to people a user's sleep, but leaks show that it seems to beryllium changing. Rumors propose that slumber scoring could beryllium successful nan Apple Watch's future. 

6. More contextualized accent tracking 

One of my most-used Apple Watch features is nan Heart Rate feature. After I've hauled groceries up my 2 flights of stairs aliases had my 3rd cup of java during a stressful time astatine work, I'll usage nan Apple Watch's Heart Rate app to cheque successful pinch my assemblage and its accent levels. The app shows my existent bosom rate, my bosom complaint scope passim nan day, my resting bosom rate, and my stepping average. 

My rumor pinch nan app is that I can't zoom successful aliases interact deeper pinch this bosom complaint information. I can't spot what clip my bosom complaint spiked this greeting aliases erstwhile it dropped successful nan afternoon. A much interactive timeline could further uncover insights into my biologic consequence to accent aliases activity. Other wearables, for illustration nan Oura Ring, supply maine pinch by-the-minute stress-tracking utilizing bosom complaint monitoring tech. It's clip Apple developed a functionality that does nan same.