Apple Watch Series 4, Series 5, and first-generation SE will not receive watchOS 11 support.
Apple Watch users can expect new features with watchOS 11, including Live Activities and customizable appearance.
Vitals app offers a snapshot of essential health metrics with pause and adjust goals feature.
watchOS 11 introduces health features such as sleep tracking and insights through the Vitals app.
Apple Watch users can look forward to several new features with the upcoming watchOS 11 update. The software brings Live Activities to the Apple Watch, allowing apps to show real-time information directly from the Lock Screen or Dynamic Island (Digital Trends). Developers can also customize Live Activities' appearance using watchOS 11 APIs. Additionally, users will have access to new health features such as sleep tracking and insights through the Vitals app, which monitors heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen levels, wrist temperature, and sleep duration (Business Wire).
Apple Watch Series 4, Series 5, and first-generation SE users will not receive watchOS 11 support. This marks an unprecedented move for Apple as it drops support for more models than ever before (Forbes). The new software includes the Translate app and Check In feature, among other advancements that may have contributed to the decision.
watchOS 11's health features aim to provide users with valuable insights into their wellbeing. For instance, the Vitals app offers a snapshot of essential health metrics. Users can now pause Activity Rings and adjust goals based on their schedule, acknowledging the importance of rest days (The Verge).
Apple Watch Series 4, Series 5, and first-generation SE owners may feel disappointed by this decision. However, they can still enjoy the features available in their current software version. For those looking to upgrade to a newer model that supports watchOS 11, it's an excellent opportunity to explore the new capabilities and enhance their fitness tracking experience.
The author had covid and was confined to bed for several days with horrible brain fog and couldn’t make progress on their Apple Watch rings.
Apple announced that rest days are finally coming in watchOS 11, allowing users to pause Activity Rings and adjust goals based on the day of the week.
Runners who don’t build rest days into a training plan get injured. Muscle is built during rest periods.
Elite athletes use trackers like Oura Ring or Whoop, which prioritize recovery and sleep above all else.
Pausing rings for a day, week, month or any desired time period without affecting Move streak acknowledges that taking breaks may help users stay motivated in the long run.
Adjusting goals based on schedule makes it easier for beginners to stick to an actual plan.
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The author expresses her personal experience and opinion about the new Apple Watch feature that allows users to pause their activity rings for rest days. She also discusses the importance of rest in fitness plans and how previous fitness trackers have prioritized recovery over gamification. However, she makes an appeal to authority by mentioning that 'the rest of the industry has been steadily pivoting away from gamification and toward recovery for the past few years.' This statement is not a logical fallacy on its own, but it can be seen as an attempt to persuade readers by using the consensus in the industry as evidence. The author also uses inflammatory rhetoric when she describes breaking a streak as 'getting kicked while I was down' and feeling 'ugly crying.' These statements are not directly related to the logical fallacies in the article, but they can create an emotional response that may influence readers.
]The rest of the industry has been steadily pivoting away from gamification and toward recovery for the past few years.[
It took me two months to get my head back in the game.
Three Apple Watch models will not receive watchOS 11 support: Series 4, Series 5, and first-generation SE.
watchOS 11 includes a new Vitals app that displays health metrics in a snapshot.
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The article contains a few instances of appeals to authority and inflammatory rhetoric. It cites Forbes sources multiple times without questioning or verifying the information provided by them. Additionally, phrases like 'confirmed precisely the reports that had leaked ahead of time' and 'we should be surprised that it's only three Watches that lose support' are inflammatory in nature.
The Watches that will have to do without are the Apple Watch Series 4, Apple Watch Series 5 and Apple Watch SE 1st generation. And further information has come to light about why these Watches will find support discontinued.
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To me, this sounds like the next step on after the introduction of Trends, which looks at health metrics and lets you know if you’re gaining weight, or losing it, over a period, for instance. It means you can get insights on key metrics like heart rate, wrist temperature and respiratory rate, measured while you’re asleep. Of course, you need to wear your Watch at night to get at this information.
