WatchOS 11 is coming soon. When it arrives, it will include a lot of smaller, lesser-known features that could change your Apple Watch in big ways.
Since its reveal at WWDC 2024 this June, I’ve been incredibly eager to try Apple ’s watchOS 11 update. What was initially expected to be a small, tepid update, watchOS 11 quickly proved to be much more exciting than we initially thought.
Big changes to Double Tap When Apple added Double Tap to the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 last year, the feature felt underutilized, to say the least. The gesture works well and is a fun way to control the smartwatch, but it just doesn’t do all that much. In the Sprout app, for example, Charles tells me that the app’s developers had to “come up with a new idea” for where to put its sleep-tracking button so it could be started/stopped with Double Tap. That means it’ll probably take some time for all of your favorite apps to add Double Tap support, but the wait should be worth it. I’ve waited nearly a year for a reason to use Double Tap more often, and watchOS 11 is finally doing something about that.
First-party apps like Apple Music will take advantage of these new smarts, and third-party apps can too. Thanks to the existing Smart Stack API and the improvements made in watchOS 11, Hylan-Cho says developers will be able to “think about when their widgets would be most relevant.” Developers can customize these Live Activities to be better suited for the Apple Watch if they want, and Hylan-Cho tells me it requires just “a few lines of code” to customize them for watchOS 11. All of this sounds a lot like the AI home screen pitch Nothing made earlier this year, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Further, watchOS 11 allows developers greater control over their custom workout screens, specifically the freedom to rename the steps of a custom workout. For example, if you create a custom workout in the TrainingPeaks app, it could now say the specific steps of the custom workout you’re doing — such as “Freestyle” and “Rest,” as shown in the image above. As Charles explains it: “Now you can actually use a new display name property and give those steps actual names.
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