About watchOS 11 Updates
watchOS 11 brings powerful health and fitness insights, along with even more personalisation, intelligence and ways to stay connected, to the world’s most popular watch. It has new experiences that provide deeper insights into your daily health status and help you understand the impact of your workouts over time. watchOS 11 uses the power of machine learning to help you easily create the perfect Photos watch face and the Smart Stack becomes even more intelligent and capable with suggested widgets, interactive widgets and Live Activities. To further support your fitness journey, you can now adjust your Activity ring goals by day of the week or even pause them for a rest day. watchOS 11 also includes Check In, the Translate app, new ways to support you during pregnancy, sleep apnoea notifications and more.
For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/100100
watchOS 11.1
This update includes improvements and bug fixes, including a fix for an issue with writing breathing disturbances data to HealthKit for some users.
For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website:
https://support.apple.com/100100
watchOS 11.0.1
This update includes bug fixes for your Apple Watch, including:
Apple Watch may unexpectedly restart for some users
Music app may unexpectedly quit when loading media
Battery may drain more quickly than expected
Touch screen may be temporarily unresponsive for some Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Series 10 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users
Messages may unexpectedly quit when replying to a message with a shared Apple Watch face
watchOS 11
Vitals
View your overnight health metrics like heart rate, respiratory rate, wrist temperature, blood oxygen and sleep duration in one convenient location
See each metric classified as typical or out of your typical range for insights on your daily health status, with outliers highlighted in a bold pink colour
Receive notifications when two or more metrics are outside of your typical range and review relevant information to better understand how these changes may be linked to other lifestyle factors
Fitness
Track the impact that the intensity, based on effort ratings, and the duration of your workouts have on your body over time with training load
Review estimated effort ratings automatically provided after completing popular cardio workouts, including running, cycling, swimming, hiking and more
See how your effort is categorised into one of four Effort labels: Easy, Moderate, Hard and All Out, and modify to match your perception of the effort required to complete the workout
Include distance as an in-session metric for a wider variety of sports in the Workout app, including Soccer and American Football, and route maps have been added to additional outdoor workouts like Outdoor Rowing and Cross Country Skiing
Create Custom Workouts for Pool Swim workouts with support for sets of work and recovery
View the time left in your current interval and prepare for your next interval with an Up Next workout view in Custom Workouts
Customise your Activity rings goals by the day of the week in the Activity app
Pause your Activity rings for a rest day, week, month or more without affecting your award streak
Personalise the Summary tab in the Fitness app on iPhone with metrics that are most important to you, like step distance, step count, running power and more
Translate
Dictate phrases and have them automatically translated and played out loud with support for 20 languages
Easily access the Translate app with the widget in the Smart Stack, which will intelligently be added when travelling to a location where the language is different to that of your Apple Watch
See the pronunciation of languages using the Latin alphabet, to help make your interactions more conversational for Mandarin (CN simplified), Japanese and Korean
Download languages to access offline translation without a mobile data or Wi-Fi connection (available on Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2)
Tides
Review tide data for over 115,000 beaches and 5,000 surf spots worldwide including high and low tides, rising and falling tides, tide height and direction in new Tides app
Discover beaches near your location with detailed map views or search for a beach by name
Customise your watch face with tide complications to show the current tide information for your favourite surf spot or the closest beach
Smart Stack
View timely information in the Smart Stack with suggested widgets that will automatically appear, intelligently using signals like time and date, location, wake-up and bedtime, and more to determine priority
View up-to-date information from apps to see the progress of an activity, event or task at a glance with Live Activities
Interact with an app directly from a widget in the Smart Stack
Watch Faces
Create a dynamic Photos watch face using image categories like People, Pets, Cities or Nature to intelligently curate the best photos from your iPhone based on aesthetics, composition and facial expressions
Visualise the passing of time with the Flux watch face, which uses dynamic typography and colour to fill the face from the bottom to the top as seconds count up
See how the Reflections watch face reflects light with a metallic sunburst dial that changes in response to the movement of your wrist
Customise how time is displayed on Apple Watch with one of nine major Indian scripts (Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Meitei, Odia, Ol Chiki, Telugu) and three new languages (Burmese, Khmer, Urdu) available on selected watch faces (Astronomy, California, Memoji, Modular, Modular Duo, Modular Compact, Utility, World Time and X-Large)
Sleep Apnoea Notifications
Receive possible sleep apnoea notifications when breathing disturbance data shows consistent signs of moderate to severe sleep apnoea over a 30-day period (available on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2)
Estimate interruptions in respiratory pattern during sleep with the Breathing Disturbances metric, which is classified as Elevated or Not Elevated
Review sharable report for richer conversations with healthcare providers after receiving a sleep apnoea notification
Intended for users 18 years or older without a previous diagnosis of sleep apnoea
Other features
Start a Check In from Messages, Workout controls or the Smart Stack to automatically alert a friend or family member when you reach your destination, after a pre-determined time or when your workout ends
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 offline
View relevant information about your tickets, like directions to parking or show starting times, with updates to tickets in Wallet
Scroll through any app like Messages, Mail or Weather using the double tap gesture (available on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2)
Use Tap to Cash to send money to someone by simply bringing your Apple Watch near their iPhone or Apple Watch (US only) (available on Apple Watch Series 7 and later, Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) and all Apple Watch Ultra models)
Review current gestational age and log symptoms experienced during pregnancy in Cycle Tracking when you log a pregnancy in the Health app on iPhone
Access additional controls with Remote including volume, power, Siri hold-to-talk and more
Some features may not be available in all countries or all areas. For more information, visit: https://www.apple.com/au/watchos/feature-availability/
For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/100100