watchOS 11: Initial release features
Vitals App
Vitals gives users a space to quickly see overnight health metrics, and how they are tracking compared to their norms. These include resting heart rate, temperature, sleep duration and quality, and blood oxygen levels. It uses an Apple developed algorithm to identify changes to the user's usual trends, and give detailed descriptions on what may be effecting these. Ie, your Apple Watch could now tell you to lay off the booze if your heart rate has been high overnight, and your sleep is more restless than usual.
Training Load
Tracked over a 28-day period, Training Load uses the length and intensity of workouts to help users get a better insight into how their workouts effect them over time. Some workouts, like cardio, automatically generated an effort estimate from 1-10, while others like Pilates or strength training are self-reported.
On the Apple Watch, the week's Training Load is compared to the user's 28-day average, ranking it as either well below, below, steady, above, or well above. This gives a better indication as to how much stress and strain the body is under, so that users can make more informed training choices.
Rest days (and other Activity customisations)
If users do find themselves tracking well above for too long, the Apple Watch now supports rest days! Not just rest days, but other activity ring customisations. Users can now set varied activity goals across the week, and pause their rings at any time without breaking their streak.
Smart Stack personalisation
The Smart Stack is now more personalised, drawing suggested widgets based on the time of day, location, and the user's daily routines. New interactive widgets such as Photos and Shazam are also available, along with Live Activities.
And
- Distance is now included as an in-session metric for a range of sports that include running (Football, soccer etc)
- Custom workouts for Pool Swims are now available
- Summary tab on the Fitness app on iPhone is now more personalised to the user
- Translate app can now automatically translate and play out loud in 20 lanugages
- Latin language pronounciation is available through Translate for non-latin alphabet languages (Mandarin, Japanese etc)
- Tides app details tide data for over 115,000 beaches
- Check In sends an automatic update to a friend when a user finishes a workout, reaches a destination, or after a pre-determined time.