![]() ![]() In fact, the only downside I can see is the one that many new users come across: information overload until you adjust exactly which email accounts and so on will send data to the Watch. Whatever the set-up procedure, the key benefit will be the addition of syncing with multiple Apple devices. I feel confident that the Apple Watch is not about to pair with an Android phone.Īs 9to5Mac points out, a recent report that the Health app on the iPhone is about to appear on the iPad with iPadOS 17 might suggest that set-up with an iPad is coming. I’d have thought a companion iPad might work, but maybe not a Mac. It’s also not clear whether you will still need an iPhone for the initial set-up. Will watchOS 10 bring multi-device connectivity to Apple Watch Ultra? David Phelan All I know, again, **ALL** I know, is that Apple Watch will sync across multiple iOS/iPadOS/Mac devices, and will no longer be tied to one single iPhone.” I don’t know how this will be implemented. Here’s what said in their tweet: “Apple Watch can sync across more than one Apple device too, finally. If one of those iPhones is for work and the other for personal stuff, then you need to carry the one that the Watch is paired with to ensure it remains up to date with notifications, for instance. If you have more than one phone, even if they’re both iPhones, you can only pair your Apple Watch to one of them. However, if you could sync your Apple Watch to an iPad or Mac, then a whole new series of options becomes apparent. Of course, that’s because Apple loves to keep you safe inside its walled-garden ecosystem, and the company would say that’s to protect the user experience. ![]() Which means that if you don’t have an iPhone, but you do have an iPad and/or a Mac, you can’t even set up an Apple Watch. Right now, although you can sync more than one Apple Watch to your iPhone, each Watch can only be paired to one phone. It’s thought that the big updates this year for the Watch will be software-based, and this would certainly be a dramatic change.Īccording to the Twitter account of who describes themselves as an Apple software analyst, a future Apple Watch could sync to multiple Apple devices. So big, that it may be that such a change, such as the Digital Crown change, could be optional at first. If this sounds like a big change, that’s because it is. “The plan is to let users scroll through a series of different widgets - for activity tracking, weather, stock tickers, calendar appointments and more - rather than having them launch apps,” Gurman explains. To make that as easy as possible, the home screen is accessible with a single press of the Digital Crown, the watch’s most prominent button.”īut with watchOS 10, it seems widgets will come back and be central to the experience, perhaps even meaning that a single Digital Crown press will take you to the widgets, not the home screen. The best way to get information on the device - besides viewing watch-face complications - is still to launch apps. As Gurman points out, “Apps remained core to the Apple Watch. The widgets focus harks back to the Glances interface found on the first Apple Watch but long since discontinued. It’s appropriate that saving time is a priority on a gadget such as a watch, of course. Gurman says Apple is “set to give its watch lineup one of the biggest software updates since the original version - with a new focus on widgets and fundamental changes to how the device works.” This is intriguing, and Gurman says it’s designed so that you can get more information with the least amount of navigation. According to Gurman in his latest Power On newsletter, the way you use your Apple Watch is going to change significantly with the arrival of watchOS 10, likely the platform on which the syncing feature below is going to launch. Hot on the heels of the latest rumor comes a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Plenty of time for full details to become apparent between now and late 2025, of course.Īpril 30 update. Will it mean that new screen tech will land on the Ultra first, and only for other models later on? We don’t know yet, though this seems the most likely to me. There’s another question to be answered: will Apple introduce microLED to the Apple Watch Ultra only, or to all its models at the same time? While it’s true that in the early days of Apple Watch the only difference between the cheapest and most expensive models was just the metal casing, the Ultra broke the mold by introducing an entirely different design. ![]() ![]() This sounds entirely plausible: it will be far from the first time that Apple has had to postpone the introduction of a new technology to one of its devices, after all. ![]()
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