watchOS 11 now available

To download the system, you need to launch the Watch app on your iPhone, go to General and Updates. To install the update, you need to connect the watch to a charger and have the battery charged at least 50 percent. The update is also available from the watch. To do this, go to Settings, General and Software Updates.

Below is the list of watches that will receive support for watchOS 11

• Apple Watch SE 2nd Generation
• Apple Watch 6th generation (including Nike+ and Hermes models)
• Apple Watch 7th Generation (including Nike+ and Hermes models)
• Apple Watch 8th Generation (including Nike+ and Hermes models)
• Apple Watch 9th Generation (including Nike+ and Hermes models)
• Apple Watch 10th Generation (including Nike+ and Hermes models)
• Apple Watch Ultra
• Apple Watch Ultra 2

watchOS 11 brings powerful health and fitness insights to the world’s most popular watch, along with even more personalization, intelligence, and ways to stay connected. watchOS 11 leverages the power of machine learning to help you easily create the perfect Photos watch face, and Smart Stack gets even smarter and more powerful with suggested widgets, interactive widgets, and live activities. To further support your fitness journey, you can now customize your Activity ring goals by day of the week, and even pause them for a rest day. watchOS 11 also includes Check In, the Translate app, new ways to support you during pregnancy, sleep apnea notifications, and more.

Fitness

• Track the impact of the intensity, based on exercise ratings, and duration of your workouts on your body over time with Training Load.
• See stress estimates automatically provided after you complete popular cardio workouts including running, cycling, swimming, hiking and more.
• See how your effort is classified into one of four effort labels: Easy, Moderate, Hard, and All Out, and modify them to match your perception of the effort required to complete your workout.
• Distance has been included as an in-session metric for a wider range of sports in the Workout app, including soccer and American football, and route maps have been added for additional outdoor workouts like outdoor rowing and cross-country skiing.
• Create custom workouts for pool swim workouts with support for work and recovery sets.
• View the time remaining in your current interval and prepare for your next interval with the Next Workout view in Custom Workouts.
• Customize your activity ring goals by day of the week in the Activity app.
• Pausing your Activity Rings for a rest day, week, month, or longer without affecting your reward streak.
• Personalize the Summary tab in the Fitness app on iPhone with the metrics that matter most to you, like stride distance, step count, running power, and more.

Translator

• Dictate phrases and they will be automatically translated and played aloud in 20 languages ​​(including Polish).
• Easily access the Translate app with a widget in the Smart Stack, which will be intelligently added when you travel to a place where the language is different from your Apple Watch.
• View language pronunciations using the Latin alphabet to make interactions easier in Mandarin (Simplified CN), Japanese, and Korean.
• Download languages ​​to access offline translation without a cellular or Wi-Fi connection (available on Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2)

For swimmers and surfers

• View tide data for over 115,000 beaches and 5,000 surf spots worldwide, including high and low tides, tide elevation and direction with the new Tides app.
• Discover beaches near your location with detailed map views or search for a beach by name
• Customize your watch face with the tide complication to display current tide information for your favorite surf spot or nearest beach.

Smart Stack

• View current information in a smart stack with suggested widgets that appear automatically, intelligently using signals like time and date, location, wake-up and bedtime, and more to determine priority.
• View live information from the app to see the progress of your activities, events, or tasks at a glance with Live Activities.
• Interact with your app directly from a widget in Smart Stack.

Watch faces

• Create a dynamic Photos watch face using image categories like People, Animals, Cities, or Nature to intelligently select the best photos from your iPhone based on aesthetics, composition, and facial expressions.
• Visualize the passage of time with the Flux watch face, which uses dynamic typography and colors to fill the dial from the bottom to the top as the seconds count down.
• See how the Reflections watch face reflects light with a metallic sun dial that changes in response to the movement of your wrist.)
• Customize the time display on Apple Watch with one of nine major Indian alphabets (Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Mejti, Odia, Ol Chiki, Telugu) and three new languages ​​(Burmese, Khmer, Urdu) available on select watch faces (Astronomical, California, Memoji, Modular, Modular Duo, Modular Compact, Utility, World Time, and X-Large).
• watchOS 11 removes the Siri watch face from Apple Watch.

Sleep Apnea Notifications

• Get alerts for possible sleep apnea when your breathing disorder data shows consistent signs of moderate or severe sleep apnea over a 30-day period (available on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2).
• Estimation of breathing pattern interruptions during sleep using a breathing disturbance metric that is classified as elevated or not elevated.
• Viewing a shared report to enhance conversations with healthcare professionals after receiving a sleep apnea alert
• Support for users 18 years of age or older without a prior diagnosis of sleep apnea.

This version also includes other features and improvements:

• watchOS 11 supports automatic snooze detection.
• Trigger Check In from Messages, workout controls, or a smart stack to automatically notify friends or family when you’ve reached your destination, reached a specific time, or completed your workout.
• Use Maps on Apple Watch to view custom walking and hiking routes downloaded to your iPhone and access turn-by-turn directions for your route, even when you’re offline.
• View important ticket information, such as parking directions or show times, along with ticket updates in the Wallet app.
• Scroll through any app, such as News, Mail, or Weather, with a double-tap gesture (available on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2).
• Send money with Tap to Cash by tapping your Apple Watch near the other person’s iPhone or Apple Watch (U.S. only). Available on Apple Watch Series 7 and later, Apple Watch SE (2nd generation), and all Apple Watch Ultra models.
• Unlock your doors with UWB home keys without having to bring your Apple Watch close to the lock. Available on Apple Watch models with UWB.
• Browse personalized recommendations and discover new workouts and meditations with a simple navigation system that includes For You, Explore, Library, and Search. View your current gestational age and log symptoms you’re experiencing during your pregnancy with the cycle tracker when you log your pregnancy in the Health app on iPhone.
• Access additional controls via the remote, including volume, power, Siri Hold-to-Talk, and more. Unfortunately, there are still no options like setting a specific ringtone for each contact or setting a ringtone from the iTunes Store.
• The ability to set a default Apple Watch ringtone. There are eight different ringtones that users can choose from, including previous ones from the GPS and Cellular versions.
• In addition to the ringtone, users can also change the notification sound for text messages, emails, calendar alerts, reminders, and regular notifications.