September 9, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Apple Watch Extremely 2 now accessible in black titanium
The last word sports activities watch is filled with extra insights together with sleep apnea notifications, and is now supplied in a surprising new end alongside a brand new Titanium Milanese Loop band
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple as we speak launched Apple Watch Extremely 2 in a placing new black titanium end, enhanced with options in watchOS 11 that take advantage of rugged and succesful Apple Watch even higher.
Apple Watch Extremely 2 is a perfect companion for athletes and adventurers of all types, that includes probably the most correct GPS in a sports activities watch,1 the brightest show of any Apple product, and as much as 36 hours of battery life with common use or as much as 72 hours in Low Energy Mode. watchOS 11 brings highly effective new options to the perfect sports activities watch, with breakthrough insights from coaching load and the Vitals app; sleep apnea notifications; the Tides app; new customization choices for the Motion button; and extra. A brand new Titanium Milanese Loop band for Apple Watch Extremely is designed for water actions whereas providing light-weight consolation and magnificence for any event. An all-new Apple Watch Hermès Extremely 2 combines the sturdiness and options of Apple Watch Extremely 2 with a nautically impressed watch band and an unique Hermès watch face.
Apple Watch Extremely 2 in black titanium, Apple Watch Hermès Extremely 2, and the brand new Titanium Milanese Loop might be pre-ordered as we speak, with availability starting Friday, September 20.
“Apple Watch Extremely 2 is the final word sports activities watch, with options that assist athletes at each stage of their coaching and efficiency — and all through their day and night time,” mentioned Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief working officer. “The breakthrough insights in watchOS 11 make Apple Watch Extremely 2 much more highly effective, and it’s now accessible in a surprising satin-black titanium end customers will love for its placing look and sturdiness.”
A Gorgeous New Black Titanium End and Accompanying Bands
The brand new black titanium end for Apple Watch Extremely 2 is achieved with a customized blasting course of, and the diamond-like carbon bodily vapor deposition coating over the grade 5 titanium makes it scratch-resistant and sturdy. The again crystal is comprised of an identical, darkish zirconia.
To enhance the brand new black end, the favored Path Loop, Alpine Loop, and Ocean Band have all been up to date to supply a black {hardware} choice along with pure titanium. Each black and pure finishes of Apple Watch Extremely 2 are comprised of 95 % recycled titanium, and are carbon impartial with any Titanium Milanese Loop, Path Loop, or Alpine Loop.
The brand new Titanium Milanese Loop is the primary steel band for Apple Watch Extremely, impressed by mesh traditionally utilized by divers and trendy sufficient for any event. Woven from the identical aerospace-grade titanium because the case, the band is light-weight and corrosion-resistant. A customized technique of weaving, flattening, laser-welding, grinding, and finely sprucing the titanium wire leads to exact, interlinking lozenge shapes that present an expensive drape, full with a dual-button, parachute-style buckle safe sufficient for all water sports activities. The Titanium Milanese Loop will likely be accessible in each pure and black titanium.
Enhancements to Assist Exercise on All Terrains and in the Water
Apple Watch Extremely 2 options the brightest show Apple has ever designed at 3000 nits, fitted to a variety of outside adventures. GPS accuracy can also be important for a lot of sorts of actions. The precision dual-frequency GPS of Apple Watch Extremely 2 makes use of superior satellite tv for pc and sign fashions, customized positioning algorithms, and Apple Maps information to offer probably the most correct GPS in a sports activities watch, resulting in extra correct distance, route maps, and metrics.
With watchOS 11, the brand new Vitals app provides customers a method to rapidly view key in a single day well being metrics and achieve higher context in relation to their well being. The brand new coaching load function presents an insightful new method to measure how the depth and length of exercises are impacting a consumer’s physique over time. An Up Subsequent view for Customized Exercises helps customers hold monitor of their present and upcoming interval.
The Motion button might be custom-made to make it even simpler to begin a exercise, change between exercise sorts throughout a Multisport exercise, and extra. With watchOS 11, customers can now conveniently change actions at any time by urgent and holding the Motion button. This provides customers fast entry to helpful options like Stopwatch, Backtrack, and Flashlight, and a wide range of new choices, together with Translation, Voice Memos, and Shazam.
To assist customers plan and luxuriate in open water actions and keep conscious of fixing circumstances, watchOS 11 introduces a brand new Tides app for Apple Watch. Customers can entry seven rolling days of forecasted tidal data for coastlines and surf spots across the globe, together with data on excessive and low tides; rising and falling tides; tide peak and path; and dawn and sundown, all plotted in opposition to a timeline. Customers may view seashores close to their location on a handy map, and new issues present present tide data for his or her favourite spots or the closest seashores at a look.
Apple Watch Extremely 2 is the perfect sports activities look ahead to athletes and adventurers of all types:
- Runners get superior metrics, customizable exercise views with Coronary heart Price Zones, Race Route, an industry-first computerized track-running detection function, Customized Exercises, and extra experiences throughout exercises and races alike. Apple Watch Extremely 2 presents battery life for lengthy runs, with as much as 12 hours throughout outside exercises, or as much as 35 hours with all low-power settings.
- Cyclists can simply view their exercise as a Reside Exercise on iPhone — or join Bluetooth-enabled biking equipment to Apple Watch Extremely 2 — giving them extra metrics and experiences, together with cadence, an computerized estimate of useful threshold energy, and Energy Zones. Apple Watch Extremely 2 may monitor distance, pace, elevation, and coronary heart fee.
- Swimmers could make use of computerized stroke detection and lap rely on Apple Watch Extremely 2, which is licensed to WR100. watchOS 11 brings Customized Exercises for pool swims, which assist customers monitor their intervals and provides them a snapshot of what’s subsequent. Customers may view water temperature instantly inside the Exercise app throughout Pool Swim and Open Water Swim exercises.
- Hikers can take pleasure in enhanced path experiences with offline maps — full with turn-by-turn instructions — in addition to options like Waypoints and backtrack GPS information within the Compass app. Customers may create and save customized mountaineering routes in iOS 18 and sync them to Apple Watch.
- Divers can make the most of the Oceanic+ app — developed in partnership with Huish Outside — which turns Apple Watch Extremely right into a dive laptop.2 This yr, the Oceanic+ app introduces new options for snorkelers, permitting them to simply view well-liked areas close by and entry details about climate, in addition to water temperature and tidal circumstances supplied by the snorkeling group. All snorkeling adventures are archived in a consumer’s private logbook, together with their route and underwater images. Pictures might be mechanically color-corrected and analyzed in opposition to a complete, localized database to assist customers establish fish.
- Golfers profit from Apple Watch Extremely 2 with Apple’s brightest show ever and lengthy battery life. With a collection of third-party apps, customers can entry course data in addition to instruments and insights using the high-frequency movement API to assist enhance their recreation.
With its rugged, corrosion-resistant titanium design, massive brilliant show, and lengthy battery life, Apple Watch Extremely 2 can also be nice for rowing, snowboarding, snowboarding, tennis, and lots of different actions.
Insightful Sleep Apnea Notifications
Sleep apnea is a doubtlessly severe situation the place respiratory stops momentarily throughout sleep. The situation, which is estimated to impression greater than 1 billion folks worldwide, goes undiagnosed most often, and if left untreated, can have vital penalties on well being. Constructing on the clever well being options already accessible, Apple Watch now presents a function to assist establish indicators of sleep apnea.3
To detect sleep apnea, Apple Watch makes use of the accelerometer to watch small actions on the wrist which might be related to interruptions in regular respiratory patterns, tracked by a brand new Apple Watch metric referred to as Respiration Disturbances. Whereas some respiratory disturbances are regular, they’re vital to trace as they can be utilized to assist perceive restfulness of sleep, and when occurring regularly over a number of nights, could also be related to sleep apnea. The brand new sleep apnea algorithm analyzes respiratory disturbance information so Apple Watch can notify the consumer if the info signifies indicators of sleep apnea. The notification will embody the time interval when potential sleep apnea occurred, instructional supplies on the significance of in search of therapy, and a PDF offering three months of respiratory disturbance information to reference throughout a dialog with a healthcare supplier.
The sleep apnea notification function was developed with superior machine studying strategies, validated in a medical research, and is predicted to obtain advertising authorization from the FDA and different international well being authorities quickly. Sleep apnea notifications will likely be accessible in additional than 150 international locations and areas this month, together with the U.S., the EU, and Japan.
Audio Playback By means of Audio system
For the primary time, audio can play again via the 2 built-in audio system on Apple Watch Extremely 2. Identical to with cellphone calls, customers can hearken to audio from a spread of apps — together with Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Apple Books, and third-party apps — proper from their Apple Watch.
Extra watchOS 11 Options
Apple Watch Extremely 2 additionally options many different enhancements with watchOS 11:
- Exercise rings are extra customizable than ever, with the power to specify Exercise ring targets by the day of the week so the rings present the correct amount of motivation on the proper moments. Customers may pause their rings for a day, week, month, or extra with out affecting their award streaks, permitting customers to plan a relaxation day, take care of an damage, or simply take a time off.
- The Exercise app presents much more exercise sorts that may monitor distance utilizing enhancements in GPS positioning, together with numerous subject sports activities, Downhill Snowboarding, Cross Nation Snowboarding, Snowboarding, Golf, Outside Rowing, and extra. Customers may see their route maps for extra exercise sorts.
watchOS 11 additionally contains a extra clever Sensible Stack to assist customers rapidly entry vital data; a brand new Pictures watch face that makes use of machine studying to assist customers choose and compose their greatest picture choices; the Translate app and Verify In on Apple Watch; the power to scroll via any app with the double faucet gesture; summarized notifications powered by Apple Intelligence;4 and extra.
Apple Watch Hermès Extremely 2
The primary-of-its-kind Apple Watch Hermès Extremely 2 combines a pure titanium case with the brand new Hermès En Mer band in Bleu Nuit — a darkish navy colour — and a particular Hermès Maritime watch face. The En Mer band options Hermès’s nautical, diagonal rib sample comprised of high-density textured knit, offering each sturdiness and luxury. A large titanium buckle on the band ensures that Apple Watch Hermès Extremely 2 stays securely on the wrist even throughout water actions, together with scuba diving, crusing, and high-speed water sports activities.
The brand new Hermès Maritime watch face options high-visibility numerals within the basic Hermès Cape Cod typeface, with a sweeping outer bezel that shows the seconds. Urgent the Motion button transforms the watch face right into a particular countdown timer impressed by boat racing.
Pricing and Availability
- Clients in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, the UAE, the U.Okay., the U.S., and greater than 49 different international locations and areas can order Apple Watch Extremely 2 in black titanium as we speak, with availability in shops starting Friday, September 20.
- Apple Watch Extremely 2 begins at $799 (U.S.), and is accessible in pure and black titanium.
- Apple Watch Hermès Extremely 2 is $1,399 (U.S.).
- New bands, together with the Titanium Milanese Loop, will likely be accessible to order as we speak from apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app, with availability in shops starting Friday, September 20.
- watchOS 11 will likely be accessible for Apple Watch Collection 6 or afterward Monday, September 16, and requires iPhone Xs or later, operating iOS 18. Not all options can be found on all gadgets and in all areas.
- Three months of Apple Health+ and Apple Music are included for purchasers who buy Apple Watch Collection 10, Apple Watch SE, Apple Watch Extremely 2, or a brand new Apple Watch Collection 6 or later.
- AppleCare+ for Apple Watch supplies unparalleled service and assist, together with limitless incidents of unintentional harm, battery service protection, and precedence assist from the individuals who know Apple Watch greatest.
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- Based mostly on route map and distance accuracy in difficult city environments.
- A subscription is required for Oceanic+. Oceanic+ is accessible on the App Retailer. All the time observe diving protocols, dive with a companion, and have a secondary machine.
- The sleep apnea notification function is pending FDA clearance and is predicted to be accessible later this month. The function will likely be supported on Apple Watch Collection 9, Apple Watch Collection 10, and Apple Watch Extremely 2. It’s supposed to detect indicators of average to extreme sleep apnea for folks 18 years or older with out a prognosis of sleep apnea.
- Apple Intelligence will likely be accessible as a free software program replace. The primary set of Apple Intelligence options will likely be accessible in beta subsequent month as a part of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, with extra options rolling out within the months to come back. It will likely be accessible on iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Professional, iPhone 16 Professional Max, iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later, with machine and Siri language set to U.S. English. Extra languages and platforms are coming over the course of the subsequent yr.
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