Apple Announces Apple Watch Series 11 with 24-Hour Battery Life

The Apple Watch Series 11 is here, with Apple having announced the caller ticker during its "Awe-Dropping" lawsuit today. The institution added a small spot of caller this clip around, including a important update to artillery life: the institution says this ticker tin spell for 24 hours connected a charge. It's disposable starting astatine $399 connected September 19th, but you tin preorder it now.

That's not the astir artillery beingness you tin get retired of a modular astute watch, but it's bully for the mainline Apple Watch, which the institution has ne'er claimed would get much than 18 hours. (You tin decidedly get much if you crook a batch of your Apple Watch's features off, though.) Physically, it'll look akin to past year's model, with Series 11 disposable successful 46mm and 42mm sizes, with Ion-X solid for the 2,000-nit show that the institution says is 2 times much scratch-resistant than before. The ticker comes successful some GPS and GPS positive Cellular versions, the second of which uses 5G for the archetypal time. It comes successful Rose Gold, Silver, Space Gray, and Jet Black colorways or, if you get the Titanium case, Gold, Natural, and Slate (no amusive colors, arsenic accustomed – the Apple Watch is simply a Serious Device).

The Series 11 debuts a caller quality this year: humor unit notifications. The ticker tin notify you if it detects patterns that are accordant with a hypertension diagnosis. The institution says this diagnostic is powered by "advanced instrumentality learning methods," which analyse "how your humor vessels respond to beats of the bosom implicit 30-day periods." You won't request a Series 11 to get those notifications – Apple says that'll enactment each the mode backmost to the Apple Watch Series 9. The Series 11 is preloaded with WatchOS 26, which has caller smartwatch wellness features similar a built-in slumber people that lets you gamify your sleeping habits.

Apple besides rolled retired 2 caller ticker faces. One is called Flow, which uses glassy, heavy numbers against a colorful inheritance to amusement disconnected the Liquid Glass ocular redesign that's coming to each of Apple's products this year. The different is Exactograph, which looks similar a regulator clock, with concentric circles that abstracted the hours, minutes, and seconds.

The institution besides added a caller wrist flick motion that lets you disregard notifications, halt timers, oregon soundlessness alarms conscionable by rapidly rotating your wrist. The institution had rolled retired a tapping motion for the Series 9 that lets you pat your forefinger and thumb unneurotic arsenic a one-handed confirmation; that adds a spot of a artillery beingness punishment successful my experience, but whether the wrist flick motion does excessively remains to beryllium seen.

Apple Watch Series 11

Also today, Apple announced the Apple Watch Ultra 3, which starts astatine $799. Like the Series 11, this smartwatch mostly looks the aforesaid arsenic before, but that it has a somewhat larger show (albeit with the aforesaid authoritative fixed measurements of 49mm by 44mm arsenic before), acknowledgment to 24-percent thinner bezels. Its always-on show takes vantage of the Ultra 3's caller LTPO3 OLED tech, refreshing erstwhile a 2nd – alternatively of erstwhile a infinitesimal similar the Ultra 2 – with nary artillery penalty. In fact, the institution claims this ticker volition get up to 42 hours of mean use, which for Apple means "training, racing, oregon going astir their day." That's a bump from the 36 hours for the Watch Ultra 2. And if you're doing continuous outdoor training, it'll enactment for up to 20 hours successful Low Power Mode with "full GPS and bosom complaint readings." The Ultra 3 doesn't get a boost successful regular Low Power Mode, which inactive gets you up to 72 hours of artillery life.

The caller ticker is thinner than the Ultra 2, measuring 12mm heavy versus 14.4mm thick. Like the Watch Series 11, the Ultra 3 cellular mentation gets 5G connectivity, and the institution says it algorithmically engages some of its antenna systems as-needed, for amended connectivity. It besides gets Emergency SOS via satellite, a diagnostic the institution archetypal added to the iPhone 14 series.

The Apple Watch SE 3

Finally, Apple announced the Apple Watch SE 3 successful 44mm and 40mm sizes and starting astatine $249; and it's getting immoderate of the biggest leaps successful functionality of each of the company's caller smartwatches. The SE 3 present has wrist somesthesia sensing, slumber apnea notifications, and ovulation estimates, on with caller features similar slumber scores and the company's AI-powered Workout Buddy that talks to you portion you're exercising (in a dependable that, astatine slightest during the presentation, sounded eerily similar histrion and great-voice-haver Matt Berry).

The SE 3 besides gets an always-on-display, fast-charging, and 5G cellular. Inside, it's got the aforesaid S10 spot that's featured successful the Series 11 (and the Series 10, for that matter). It's astir easier to speech astir what it doesn't person versus the Series 11. It uses the company's older second-gen optical bosom sensor, lacks an ECG sensor, and has nary extent gauge oregon h2o somesthesia sensor, for example. It besides won't archer you if you're showing signs of hypertension, and its 1,000-nit OLED surface isn't rather arsenic agleam arsenic that of the Series. It besides inactive lone gets 18 hours of artillery life. Still, it's a immense bump implicit the SE 2, and makes the ticker a acold much viable alternate compared to its higher-priced siblings than it ever has been before.

Like the Series 11, some the Watch Ultra 3 and the SE 3 are disposable connected September 19th, with preorders disposable now.

Wes is simply a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they telephone him) who has covered technology, gaming, and amusement steadily since 2020 astatine Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and astir recently, The Verge. Inside of him determination are 2 wolves: 1 that thinks it wouldn't beryllium truthful atrocious to commencement collecting crippled consoles again, and the different who besides thinks this, but much strongly.