The Apple Watch Series 11 Review: Superb Wrist Gestures featuring Extended Battery Performance
Our newest wearable Series Eleven introduces the one thing many users actually want in a wearable device: longer battery life.
In other aspects, the updated device serves as a direct replacement to the Series 10, maintaining similarity in styling, proportions and functions, with the majority of its upgrades coming from watchOS.
This new model furthermore priced £30 lower in the UK, priced starting at 369 pounds (€449/399 dollars/679 Australian dollars), placed higher than the recently updated Watch SE at £219 for entry-level buyers and the £749 Ultra 3 at the high end.
Appearance and Screen
Like last year's Series Ten, the latest iteration comes in at 9.7 millimeters in thickness, which makes it a slim fit to the wrist, easy to sneak below clothing plus more pleasant during sleep.
The 2,000nit display is plenty bright for viewing in various lighting, maintaining readability at various perspectives, which makes quickly looking at the time or messages simple.
It is covered by glass reportedly significantly more durable as before, while not reaching the hardness of sapphire crystal, which is reserved for the more expensive titanium versions.
Performance and Battery
The updated wearable features equivalent S10 silicon from the previous generation with new capability for optional 5G plus enhanced signal strength during situations exploring remote areas.
Energy storage demonstrate growth in size significantly for the 42mm and 46 millimeter models in that order.
The 46mm achieved approximately two full days during evaluation featuring overnight analysis excluding workout sessions.
Typical wearers can nearly be able to track 48 hours including sleep until recharge becomes necessary, requiring just over an hour using a 20W or more powerful adapter (available separately), achieving around 70% in 30 minutes.
When you participate in workouts, the device can continue approximately eight hours for monitoring, adequate time for endurance events or multiple events.
Device Details
- Case size: Two size variants
- Device slimness: 9.7mm
- Weight: approximately 30-37 grams
- Computing engine: S10
- Storage: 64 gigabytes
- Operating system: watchOS 26
- Waterproof rating: 50 meters (5 atmospheres)
- Sensors: HR, ECG, Blood oxygen, temp, depth, mic, speaker, Near-field communication, Global navigation, compass, Altimeter
- Wireless features: Bluetooth technology, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC capability, UWB, optional 5G
Operating System Updates
The latest device comes preloaded with watchOS 26, which runs on every version since the sixth generation and later.
It adds Apple's new transparent design elements, creating interface components semi-translucent, along with additional display styles: an expansive digital display titled Flow that responds to movement plus an analog display called Exactograph, which breaks out hours, minutes and seconds into individual displays.
The most impressive innovation is the wrist-flick gesture, requiring swift turning your arm outward then returning to dismiss things returning to the home screen.
It works even without looking at the device to check the display, meaning you can stop notifications using a quick gesture with your hand.
Health and Fitness Tracking
The wearable device features the same comprehensive fitness analysis system of tools found in earlier versions plus including some additional functions along with updated workout app.
Hypertension alerts monitor indicators of elevated BP during monthly analysis, alerting users to consult professionals when pulse information shows possibility of undetected issues.
Enhanced sleep analysis makes Apple's sleep tracking more straightforward to analyze, comparable to rivals from multiple companies.
Every day the device displays a score out of 100 that is broken down across three areas: time asleep, schedule and wakeups, all being straightforward and accessible via the health software through your mobile also.
Fitness assistant is an AI coach that uses your previous workout data to deliver encouragement around exercise sessions, such as recognising existing workout history multiple weekly exercises and the level of effort you demonstrated.
Also featuring audible heads-up when you reach specific targets during exercise, such as a particular pace, heart rate, range, time or other metrics.
Options include of three voices, delivering verbal guidance via wireless earbuds paired with the device across twelve exercise types, such as walking, jogging or biking.
But, this feature depends on if you have with you newer iPhone models during activities, creating frustration sufficient to avoid the feature to avoid being encumbered bringing phones during exercise.
Green Initiatives
The manufacturer states the battery should last over one thousand complete charging sessions maintaining 80 percent of initial performance and is replaceable at £95 cost.
Fixings require from £295 to £389 according to device type.
It contains significant amounts of sustainable elements including aluminium, cobalt, copper, glass components, gold materials, lithium, specialized materials, steel, tin elements, {titanium|
