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Our most recent Apple Watch 11th generation delivers the improvement many users really need in a wearable device: extended battery performance.

Apart from that, the updated device serves as a straightforward upgrade from the previous model, maintaining similarity in appearance, proportions and capabilities, with most of its upgrades originating from watchOS.

The latest version additionally priced £30 lower for UK customers, priced starting at £369 sterling (€449/399 dollars/A$679), placed higher than the recently updated Watch SE at £219 for entry-level buyers and the £749 Ultra 3 at the high end.

Build and Interface

Following the design of Series 10, this updated version is just 9.7 millimeters in thickness, creating a slender profile on your arm, convenient to tuck below clothing plus more pleasant overnight.

Featuring a 2,000nit interface is plenty bright for reading inside and outside, remaining clear when viewed from different angles, enabling quickly looking to check time or notifications easy.

It is covered using glass which is double the scratch resistance compared to previous models, although not as hard as sapphire, which is reserved for the more expensive titanium models.

Performance and Battery

This latest device incorporates equivalent S10 silicon found in earlier versions while adding support for 5G connectivity option plus enhanced signal strength for those times exploring remote areas.

The batteries show improvement in capacity approximately 10 percent in the 42 millimeter and 46 millimeter models respectively.

Larger model managed an impressive two full days in our assessment featuring overnight analysis when not used for fitness.

Typical wearers should approximately be able to track two days and two nights before needing a charge, needing about 66 minutes with a 20-watt or more powerful adapter (available separately), reaching approximately three-quarters charge in 30 minutes.

Should you engage in exercise, the device can continue around 8 hours of tracking, adequate time for endurance events or two.

Product Features

• Size options: 42 or 46mm
• Profile depth: 9.7mm
• Device weight: around 30 to 37g
• Processor: S10 silicon
• Memory: 64 gigabytes
• Software platform: latest watchOS
• Waterproof rating: 50 metres (5ATM)
• Sensors: HR, ECG, spO2, Temperature, Depth gauge, Microphone, Speaker, NFC, Global navigation, compass, altimeter
• Connectivity: Bluetooth technology, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC, Ultra-wideband, optional 5G

Software Enhancements

This new model ships with updated software, compatible with all models starting from Series 6 and later.

This includes recently introduced Liquid Glass interface, which makes most elements partially transparent, and adds additional display styles: a big digital interface called Flow that responds to movement plus an analog display titled Exactograph, dividing chronological elements into their own dials.

The standout addition involves wrist movements, where you rapidly twist your wrist away from you and then back to exit screens and return to the watch face.

This functions without lifting your arm to look at the watch, enabling wearers to dismiss alarms with a satisfying flick via arm movement.

Activity Analysis

This smartwatch incorporates the same comprehensive health monitoring suite of features found in earlier versions while introducing some additional functions and a redesigned fitness program.

High BP warnings monitor indicators of hypertension through extended monitoring, informing wearers to consult professionals when pulse information indicates potential underlying conditions.

Updated sleep scoring improves sleep monitoring more straightforward to analyze, like other brands from multiple companies.

Daily upon waking the device displays a score out of 100 divided into categories across three areas: duration, bedtime and interruptions, which are all easy to understand and accessible through the wellness application on the iPhone also.

Exercise companion serves as automated guidance that uses your past activity records to give you motivational messages before and after workouts, including identifying existing workout history multiple weekly exercises and exertion levels you put it.

Also featuring spoken alerts upon achieving certain milestones while working out, including certain tempo, heart rate, distance, period or additional measurements.

Options include of three voices, providing audio feedback over Bluetooth headphones paired with the device across twelve exercise types, like strolling, sprinting or cycling.

However, it only works if you also carry your iPhone 15 Pro or later with you, proving inconvenient sufficient to avoid the function to avoid being encumbered with a phone on runs.

Sustainability and Environment

Reports indicate power cells will endure more than 1,000 full charge cycles retaining four-fifths of starting power with replacement available for £95.

Fixings require between £295 and £389 according to device type.

The device incorporates significant amounts of recycled material including aluminium, cobalt metal, copper elements, glass, gold materials, lithium, uncommon minerals, steel, tin elements, {titanium|