Apple Watch Series 11 Hands-on: Feels And Looks The Same, But Real Changes Are Deeper

Though nan Apple Watch announcements whitethorn person paled successful comparison to nan iPhone news astatine Apple's arena today, location were still immoderate noteworthy updates to nan smartwatch lineup to talk about. This year, we're getting nan Watch Series 11, Watch SE 3 and Watch Ultra 3, and each of them person immoderate absorbing features. At a hands-on convention present astatine Apple Park, I spent immoderate clip pinch nan devices, and judge nan astir intriguing is nan Series 11.

At first glance, nan Series 11 is nary different from nan Series 10 I wore to nan event. They're nan aforesaid thinness and person beautiful overmuch nan aforesaid dimensions, and nan main alteration is that nan caller smartwatch has an IonX solid covering that's a spot much scratch resistant. There's besides a caller abstraction grey lawsuit action that looked nice, though I was a bigger instrumentality of nan roseate golden set and lawsuit pairing. I particularly for illustration nan loop set that was connected nan portion I checked out.

I put nan Series 11 connected my wrist adjacent to my Series 10 and genuinely could not show them apart. There mightiness not beryllium overmuch logic to upgrade from past year's exemplary to this, which isn't a bad thing. We don't want to beryllium excessively wasteful, anyway. The existent updates coming to nan Series 11 see nan caller "Possible hypertension" alerts, utilizing information gathered from nan existing optical bosom complaint sensors to study patterns successful nan constriction and description of your humor vessels successful narration to your bosom rate. This tells nan watch whether location are differences successful your humor unit — keyword: differences.

This instrumentality isn't meant to springiness you readings of your humor pressure. It's much meant to show if location are concerning variations and alert you to spot a aesculapian master if so. This is akin to galore different Apple Watch features for illustration slumber apnea discovery aliases precocious bosom complaint alerts, and since it requires information trends to work, wasn't thing I could conscionable trial present astatine Apple Park.

I besides didn't get to trial nan slumber people characteristic that's coming watchOS 26, but that isn't exclusive to nan Series 11, and immoderate Apple Watch compatible pinch nan latest package will beryllium capable to get it. I did for illustration really you'll get scores erstwhile you've worn nan watch to bed, and don't person to hold for a required number of nights for nan insights to surface.

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