Apple WatchOS 11 // Sports, Fitness, and Health Features We’ve Wanted! 

not everyone who wants up to date health info is super into fitness. and some meatheads don’t care about the health things apple watch says. i think it’s fine the way it is, even though i do agree

🙌🏽 great idea

I'm still waiting for an actual virtual coach as opposed to an audio recording that's the same for everyone. AN actual virtual coach that takes your bio data into account and tells you to slow down or speed up depending on your live exertion.

Report feedback, it might happen.

Please yes. These 975 scattered apps drive me crazy since day 1.

Always happy to help

Thanks Eric!

Thanks!

Glad it helps, thanks so much!

Thanks! Some welcome new features for the Apple Watch, for sure.

Always happy to help!

Thanks!

And more buttons - at least one more would be much better for activities

@@JasonRanesesagreed. Still an issue relying so much on the touch screen if your hands are wet or wearing gloves during an activity.

@@stefaniesmith7117I hate using the touchscreen in this regard. Even to the point on the AW using Siri to pause an activity, as one of example.

Apple should just make a mip Apple Watch and they’re golden

Yep. Buttons are far superior when tracking an activity. Not giving up my Garmin.

Anytime!

Isn't the AW Ultra a good direction?

I doubt Apple is trying to get extreme athletes even though they did show those serious weather conditions last year. Apple sells tens of millions of watches every year. I wonder what the minimum number of sales they would need for a specific design?

The Fitness app should have live view for friends currently working out. I just had a distance challenge with a buddy and it would be cool if I could see that he was out hiking currently at 10,3 km. or something like that

Yup! As soon as the public beta is released

👍🤙🙌

Looks like it’s added. He just didn’t discuss it. You can download maps directly with trail routes and have the direction the watch with turn by turn.

@@codywright3958Still looks like it’s a jump between the Maps and Workout app for stuff like it. The maps team should just make a view possible on the workout app, like you can have for heart rate etc.

it wont... you compare a pure fitness tracker and a smart watch... you need to make up your mind

Same lol. I recently started using RunGap to get my Apple workouts sent to Garmin Connect for more analysis. These new updates will eliminate that need.

If apple and garming partnered I’d be sold

@@LucyWallace95 would be nice but they’re in competition. The Apple Watch and Garmin Fenix or Forerunner are most popular fitness watches in the world (Fitbit too but that’s more of tracking calories, steps, and sleep). I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple makes a cycling computer. They already have maps, M chips, and an ecosystem.

I was a Garmin user up to 3 weeks ago and I must share that my experience with the ultra 2 is the worse ever Had a forerunner 935 since 2017 and I fell I downgraded with the ultra. Im pretty sure the forerunner 165 beats the crap out of the U2.

@@luisj23how so? I’ve been looking at 965 as a AW replacement.

Not when you are in a workout mode

It’s to save battery life because the Apple Watch runs an insane amount of processes in the background that kills your battery. If it pulled a pulse ever second the battery would last like a hour.

How would you like that to work? It would be very inefficient to have to look at a small screen on your wrist, no? Or you mean support for haptic and audio notifications?

@@User57655 haptic on the watch and and visual on the phone. You can mirror the watch on the phone when you use it for bike riding with watchOS 10. That’s very nice and practical when you mount the phone on the bike handlebars. Then you have all the live data in front of you. To really match Wahoo or Garmin it should turn by turn navigation in the bike app as well.

Only pedestrian activities like hiking, walking, and running at this time

No GPX or 3rd party route support at this time but this is a start

No

It’s a separate app still

@@DesFit that stinks.

That's why they want you to buy an Ultra ;-)))

Watches that support watchOS 18

Agreed 👍. Ditching the heart rate monitor would be nice.

I whas thinking the same thing.

I just paid for the subscription

I’ve been using Athlytic for about a year. Curious to see how it compares for sure.

Maybe the list can be edited? I would like to se Apple focusing on hrv and all the possibilities, like the Body Battery

The list isn’t editable

really? where did they show that you can navigate through different data screens using double tap during a workout?

The Garmin Fenix 7 has FAR superior battery life compared to ANY Apple Watch. And the Garmin has buttons, which makes operating the watch during activities, much easier when you have gloves on in the winter, or when the screen or hands are wet. The Fenix is still the better overall sports watch.

​@@lennygarrison6836 but it has lower quality sensors, which imo are the most important feature of any watch. apple watch is king for anyone who has access to an hour of electricity a day (to charge, lol)

Garmin is a far superior sports watch with some smart features while Apple Watch is a far superior smart watch with sports features. The way I use Apple Watch Ultra now is as a man over 50 with no goals other than health and being able to exercise without bringing my phone as the watch has cellular. I never do any exercise over six hours so battery life isn’t really an issue as I charge the watch every few days anyway.

Nope, sort of combined them in a way

No GPX or 3rd party route support at this time

Thanks!

everyone who has used garmin and apple products knows that they are not even in the same universe. it is like two completely different products.

AW is fine for people that are starting out and tracking their workouts and so on, but if you're trying to get serious garmin is the way to go.

@@Gufolicious That's what people used to say. The gap (Sofware wise) is getting closer and closer. Apple is making their watches more and more fitness oriented faster than Garmin can make their watches "Smart". The only thing Garmin can keep winning from Apple is probably battery life.

@@ymaizosz yup Garmin and all manufacturers of fitness wearables are getting into trouble by Apple

Not really. Athlytic has a sleep and recovery score and works with weights

You will lose a lot of screen space if it’s round. Apple will never do that.

But how long can the AW do that? Don't get me wrong, I was hella happy with my AW s5 back on the days when I was on the Apple ecosystem, but there is people that do have a lifestyle that doesn't get well along having just 5 to 6 gps hours of activity. There's people that does go on a hike very early in the morning and then continue with their day, for those by 2 pm AW will be dead.

I predict, that general AW won't support offline maps, just ultra that cost around 700-800$

On the flip side, Apple has features from their series 3 that haven’t yet made it to a Garmin device

The mainline watches are well over one day of life. The ultra is almost 3 light days. For a smartwatch with this much feature load, and graphics quality, that’s not bad

HRV isn't calculated during workouts on a Garmin or COROS watch.

@@DesFit After completing a workout of Garmin AI Coach under Carts there is a a chart called Performance Condition. When you tap the Help above at the right corner there is a written explanation; Performance Condition As you track an activity with your Garmin watch, performance condition analyzes your pace, heart rate and heart rate variability to make a real-time assessment of your ability to perform compared to your average fitness level. During the first 6 to 20 minutes of an activity, your watch displays your performance condition score. Performance condition can be an indicator of fatigue, especially at the end of a long training workout. If I miss understood pleas enlighten As it’s a an important info’ for many.

@@DesFit I replied but can’t see it so in short again: After completing a workout on Garmin AI coach in charts there is a Chart called “Performance Condition” When you type above at right corner help there is an explanation like so; Performance Condition As you track an activity with your Garmin watch, performance condition analyzes your pace, heart rate and heart rate variability to make a real-time assessment of your ability to perform compared to your average fitness level. During the first 6 to 20 minutes of an activity, your watch displays your performance condition score. Performance condition can be an indicator of fatigue, especially at the end of a long training workout. If I misunderstood please correct as it’s important info for many.

From the Garmin app explanation on the app specific workout chart; “Performance Condition”: As you track an activity with your Garmin watch, performance condition analyzes your pace, heart rate and heart rate variability to make a real-time assessment of your ability to perform compared to your average fitness level. During the first 6 to 20 minutes of an activity, your watch displays your performance condition score. Performance condition can be an indicator of fatigue, especially at the end of a long training workout.

Ultra?

@@CorentinHarbelot the Ultra holds up 2 days max if you’re an active person. Needs to be better

@@xthereaper8434 I had a Fenix before, I miss the great battery life for sure

An Apple Watch is a smartwatch first, sports and fitness watch second. A Garmin is a sportswatch first, smartwatch second. Each company does certain things better than the other such as Garmin having robust sports features but not the tight integration with a phone like an Apple Watch. Different priorities with each one where one may suit a certain individual more than the other.

@@DesFit very much appreciated response, I now don’t understand the hype with the apple watch variables since I had a very bad experience due to the hype ( which got me into purchasing the ultra 2) of it all but will make sure to help out clarifying the difference between the 2 platforms now that I’ve had the experience with both of them. T

I feel like apps like athletic and bevel will still be for the more data nerdy people who want to dig into insights. Apple typically doesn’t allow for much insights. Similar to how people still use sleep tracking apps despite Apple having them built in.

True most you have to pay for though, apple algorithms and the way they handle data is probably better