According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple has a couple new features in the pipeline for Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 that’ll make it much more appealing for health-conscious users. The company is also testing two finishes for the rumored ceramic version.
New health upgrades
These two key health upgrades will likely sound appealing if you’re someone who’s dissatisfied with the state of Apple Watch as a fitness tracker. The two features are always-on heart-rate tracking, and an all new app design. that’ll make it much easier to learn from your health data. Here’s how Gurman describes the new app:
Apple is also working on revamping its fitness and health app software to show more wellness-related metrics in a similar fashion to increasingly popular app offerings from Whoop and Oura.
As someone who currently owns a WHOOP, I will say my primary draw to it has always been the fact that I find it much easier to learn from my health data in the WHOOP app. It’ll show me all of the factors that make my sleep or recovery poor, whereas with Apple Watch it feels the only important thing is your activity rings. If Apple makes meaningful progress in this regard, I’ll be quite happy.
