Apple unveiled Apple Watch Series 10, featuring a refined design and bringing new capabilities to an already efficient watch that makes it even more powerful, intelligent, and sophisticated. Apple Watch Series 10 is the thinnest Apple Watch yet — making it more comfortable than ever — and offers the biggest, most advanced display of any Apple Watch. It also features new sleep apnea notifications; faster charging; water depth and temperature sensing; plus new health and fitness insights and intelligence in watchOS 11.
Available in both aluminum and titanium, Apple Watch Series 10 comes in an array of stunning colors and finishes.Apple Watch Series 10 features the biggest and most advanced display of any Apple Watch, improving readability and usability in apps like Messages, Mail, or News.The innovative wide-angle OLED display optimizes each pixel to emit more light at wider angles, and is up to 40 percent brighter than Apple Watch Series 9 when viewed from an angle.Sleep apnea notifications come to Apple Watch, further expanding its capabilities as an intelligent guardian for users’ health.
In this episode, we will discuss how Apple is celebrating America’s national parks with an Apple Pay donation campaign and new ways to explore with Apple Maps. We will also telll you how to earn an activity award on Sunday, August 25 by participating in a fitness activity. (Graphics courtesy of Apple Inc.)
This week, Apple celebrates the 108th birthday of the U.S. National Park Service with an Apple Pay donation campaign and new ways to explore with Apple Maps. Photo by Jude Allen. Shot on iPhone 14 Pro.On August 25, Apple Watch users can earn a limited-edition award and animated stickers for Messages to celebrate national parks.This fall, Apple Maps users can explore thousands of hikes in U.S. national parks and save them for offline use.On August 25, Apple Watch users can earn a limited-edition award and animated stickers for Messages to celebrate national parks. On August 25, Apple Watch users can earn a limited-edition award and several animated stickers for Messages to celebrate national parks.
In this episode, we will discuss the newest operating system watchOS 11. watchOS11 brings powerful health and fitness insights, and even more personalization. Apple is introducing the Vitals app, training load, pregnancy health and new ways to tailor Activity rings. We will discuss these and more.
watchOS 11 offers breakthrough insights into users’ health and fitness, and more personalization than ever.With the new Vitals app, Apple Watch users can quickly view key overnight health metrics, receive alerts when two or more metrics are out of their typical range, and gain better context when it comes to their health.With the new Vitals app, Apple Watch users can quickly view key overnight health metrics, receive alerts when two or more metrics are out of their typical range, and gain better context when it comes to their health.When users log a pregnancy in the Health app on iPhone or iPad, the Cycle Tracking app on Apple Watch will show their gestational age and allow them to log symptoms for things frequently experienced during pregnancy.Training load is an insightful new way to measure how the intensity and duration of workouts is impacting a user’s body over time, established using effort ratings available after each.Apple Watch will establish a 28-day training load, a weighted average taking into account both the effort ratings and duration of users’ workouts over this period.With the new Vitals app, Apple Watch users can quickly view key overnight health metrics, receive alerts when two or more metrics are out of their typical range, and gain better context when it comes to their health.
In this episode, we will discuss how Apple is celebrating Heart Health Month.The annual Heart Month Challenge is back again this year for Apple Watch users. The event is slated for Valentine’s Day on Wed, Feb 14. Also, learn how Mac Minutes listeners can listen in to a special presentation on the Apple Vision Pro and Apple Healh sleep feature.
Earn an Activity Award celebrating Heart Health Month this Valentine’s Day. Graphic of the 2024 Heart Health Month Activity Award.
In this episode we will discuss Apple celebrating Veteran’s Day in the United States by earning a beautiful Apple Activity Challenge Fitness award on Saturday, November 11. We will tell you how you can participate in this noteworthy effort and how to display your fitness awards in a memorable meaningful display.
Apple Watch users across the US can participate in the Veterans Day Challenge on Friday, November 11 to earn a limited edition Activity award and animated stickers for messages. One of the many ways the company Activity Awards offers for you to display your represented Activity Awards. The company is available at https://activityawards.com.
In this episode, we will discuss Apple releasing iPadOS 17 recently bringing with in many new levels of personalization and versatility to iPad. We will be covering these features with screenshots on the podcast websitehttps://macminutes.blubrry.net. For full details, go to the Apple iPadOS 17 website located at https://apple.com/ipados/ipados-17
iPadOS 17 takes iPad even further with new levels of personalization, beautiful and helpful custom Lock Screens, easier ways to find and share information, and intelligent features to help get things done.The Lock Screen is redesigned to be more beautiful, personal, and useful.A new stickers experience in Messages lets users express themselves, be creative, and share ideas on the fly.Users can leave an audio or video message in FaceTime.Users can securely share health data and receive important notifications about their loved ones’ health in the Health app.In Freeform, users can create expressive boards with new drawing tools and a diagramming mode.
In this episode, we will discuss the Apple released this week watchOS 10, an update which I have used, and is a significant update. This is bringing a new visual language to apps to see more information at a glance, a new Smart Stack to show relevant widgets right when they’re needed, and delightful new watch faces. Bluetooth connectivity for power meters, speed sensors, and cadence sensors arrive for cyclists, unlocking new metrics and Workout Views, and cycling workouts will automatically show up as a Live Activity on iPhone and utilize the full screen. We will talk about these new features and more.
watchOS 10 is available today, delivering redesigned apps, a new Smart Stack, additional watch faces, new cycling and hiking features, and tools to support mental health.Introducing the Smart Stack, which enables users to see timely information that adapts to their context.Modular Ultra takes advantage of the large display of Apple Watch Ultra, using the outermost edge to present real-time data, including seconds, altitude, or depth.Apple Watch calculates personalized Power Zones, used to easily see the current zone and track how long is spent in each, which is an effective and popular way of improving performance.The Compass app automatically generates two new waypoints when available: a Last Cellular Connection Waypoint and a Last Emergency Call Waypoint.
In this episode, we will discuss Apple announcements about heart health. February is American Heart Month. Many of us including myself are impacted or know someone who is affected by heart disease. There is ongoing research and will talk about how your Apple devices can make a difference in the health of you and your loved ones. With heart health features — including high and low heart notifications, Cardio Fitness, irregular rhythm notifications, the ECG app, and AFib History — Apple gives users an ever-developing view of their health with actionable insights.
AppleWatch’s advanced technology provides insights to help users better understand their health and also has the potential to open the door to discovery for the research and medical communities.Users can enable high and low heart rate notifications from Apple Watch.
Apple Watch Ultra field test of nearly a month proves value of new design, breakthrough features and improved capabilities. Apple unveiled the revolutionary new design with breakthrough capabilities for the inspired athlete. The Ultra’s bold design and wide range of features built for endurance, exploration, and adventure is truly noteworthy. Apple marketed the device for those individuals, but the device makes its mark as well for the novice weekend warrior. I’ll tell you why it’s a good value to the average person.
There are three specialized bands for outdoor adventures, endurance training, and water sports Apple introduced as well.
Apple Watch Ultra features a new depth gauge. It also delivers the data and functionality required by scuba and free divers for descents down to 40 meters.
In this episode, we will discuss the launching Monday, Sept. 12 of watchOS 9 bringing new watch faces, an enhanced Workout app, sleep stages, a first-of-its-kind AFib History feature, a redesigned Compass app, and an all-new Medications app. We will cover all these new features in this show.
watchOS 9 brings new features, enhanced apps, and more personalization to Apple Watch.For triathletes and duathletes, the Workout app now supports a new Multisport workout type that automatically switches between any sequence of swimming, biking, and running workouts.For triathletes and duathletes, the Workout app now supports a new Multisport workout type that automatically switches between any sequence of swimming, biking, and running workouts.The completely redesigned Compass app includes Waypoints, a quick and convenient way to mark a point of interest directly in the app.The new Medications experience on Apple Watch and iPhone helps users manage and track their medications, vitamins, and supplements, plus provides an alert if there are potential critical interactions with medications they have added to the Health app.
