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Inspired by the most intense sporting activities, Apple unveils a revolutionary new design that is brimming with innovation
Apple today announced Apple Watch Ultra, which features a bold new design and a wide range of features that are designed for endurance, exploration, and adventure. Apple Watch Ultra introduces a 49mm titanium case with a flat sapphire front glass that shows the biggest and most vibrant Apple Watch display yet. A customizable Action button gives instant access to a wide range of functional features. Apple Watch Ultra has the best battery duration of any Apple Watch, reaching up to 36 hours of normal use.1 In addition, a brand new low-power mode, perfect for multi-day experiences, can extend battery life to reach up to 60 hours.2 The Wayfinder watch face was specifically designed for the larger Apple Watch Ultra display and includes a compass built into the dial, with the capacity to accommodate up to eight complications. Apple Watch Ultra also brings three new bands including Trail Loop, Alpine Loop, and Ocean Band — offering unique design features that provide the most snug and secure fit for any adventure.
Apple Watch Ultra is available to purchase today and will be available for purchase starting Friday, September 23.
“Inspired by explorers and athletes from around the world, we created an entirely new category of Apple Watch designed for new and extreme environments — it’s the most rugged and capable Apple Watch yet,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer. “Apple Watch Ultra is a versatile tool that empowers users to push their boundaries with adventure, endurance, and exploration.”
Made of aerospace-grade titanium, Apple Watch Ultra provides the perfect balance of weight and durability, as well as resistance to corrosion. The case can surround all edges of the front crystal’s flat sapphire, protecting the Retina display, which can reach up to 2000 nits — 2x brighter than any Apple Watch display yet. The new Action button in high-contrast international orange is easily customized to give you immediate access to a range of features, such as Exercises, Compass Waypoints, Backtrack, and more.
Apple Watch Ultra has three built-in microphones that significantly enhance the quality of voice calls during any conditions. An adaptive beamforming algorithm uses the microphones to capture voices while reducing ambient background sounds, resulting in remarkable clarity. In challenging windy environments, Apple Watch Ultra uses advanced wind noise-reduction algorithms, such as machine learning, which delivers clear and clear audio for calls.
New Bands Designed for the Great Outdoors
It was specifically designed for runners and endurance athletes, the Trail Loop band is the thinnest Apple Watch band to date. The lightweight woven fabric is soft and flexible that allows it to adjust to the perfect fit, and the convenient tab is designed for quick and simple adjustment.
With explorers in mind this Alpine Loop band features two integrated layers made from one continuous weaving process that eliminates the need for stitching. The top loops, which are interspersed with high-strength fibers, offer the ability to adjust and secure attachment for the titanium G hook fastener.
The Ocean Band is designed specifically for extreme water sports and recreational diving . It features the titanium buckle and spring-loaded loop. It is made of an elastic fluoroelastomer, it stretches and utilizes the tubular shape to ensure an incredibly secure fit. The Ocean Band also has an optional extra-long tail that allows the wearer to wear it comfortably over a wetsuit.
Endurance Sports and Elite Athletes
Apple Watch Ultra is an amazing device to help endurance athletes and those who want to push themselves to the limit. It is the first time ever in the history of an Apple Watch, the precision dual-frequency GPS integrates L1 and the most recent frequency, L5, as well as new algorithm for positioning. Apple Watch Ultra delivers the most accurate GPS of any Apple Watch to date, giving users the most precise distance as well as pace and route information for training and competition.
Apple Watch Ultra is powered by watchOS 9, which includes new advanced running metrics that assess performance, such as Stride Length, Ground Contact Time, Vertical Oscillation and Running Power. The new Workout Views, like Segments, Splits, and Elevation are able to show important metrics in just a glance, and thanks to the large display, Apple Watch Ultra is the only Apple Watch that can show six metrics at once. Users can elevate their workouts to the next step with features like Heart Rate Zones, Custom Workouts, Pacer, and, due in the coming months Race Route. For duathlons, triathlons, or any other activity that involves a sequence of biking, swimming, or running, the new Multisport workout has autodetection so that you can effortlessly switch between workouts. Apple Watch Ultra has enough battery life for the majority of users to finish a triathlon of a long distance, consisting of the 2.4-mile swim and a bike ride of 112 miles and a full marathon of 26.2 miles.
The Action button is able to instantly begin workouts and move users to the next segment of a custom workout or the next leg of the Multisport workout. It can also be used to identify out segments, which is a great addition to the brand-new Track running experiencethat automatically gives the most accurate pace as well as distance estimates for runners at the track.3
With its larger display, brighter and more robust style, Apple Watch Ultra is the ideal technical tool for explorers and adventurers in a range of environments from the everyday up to the most extreme. The completely revamped Compass application in watchOS 9 offers more detailed information and three distinct perspectives. The app offers a brand-new hybrid view that simultaneously shows an analog compass dial and a digital view. The turn of the Digital Crown reveals an additional view that shows latitude, longitude, elevation, and incline as well as an orienteering view that shows Compass Waypoints and Backtrack.
Compass Waypoints are a simple and easy way to mark the location or point of interest directly in the app. Clicking the Action button or tapping the Compass Waypoint icon drops a waypoint that can be edited by pressing the icon. The Compass Waypoint complication is updated in real-time, dynamically with both the direction of the waypoint as well as the distance.
Backtrack utilizes GPS data to create an outline of the location that the user has been, which is useful if they get lost or lost and require assistance in finding their way back. It can also turn on automatically in the background if it is off the grid. With a single press of the Action button, users can quickly remove an compass Waypoint or begin or browse a Backtrack. A siren that is 86 decibels was made for emergencies, in case users get lost or injured and may assist in attracting attention to a specific location. The unique sound signature incorporates two distinct patterns that can be repeated for a period of time up to several hours. The first pattern is a sign of distress, while the second mimics the widely recognized SOS pattern. For backpacking trips that last for a long time battery life can be extended to up to 60 hours with the Low Power Mode plus an additional low-power setting that reduces frequency of GPS and heart rate readings.
The operating temperature of the wrist was developed to aid in exploring the most remote and extreme places, from freezing cold mountains at -4deg F (-20deg C) to the scorching desert heat of 131 degrees F (55deg C).4 Apple Watch Ultra is certified to the relevant requirements of MIL-STD-810H, used for military equipment and popular among manufacturers of rugged equipment. Tests include low pressure (Altitude) High Temperature, Low Temperature, Temperature Shock, Contamination caused by fluids, rain, humidity, Immersion, Sand and Dust, Freeze/Thaw and Shock, Ice/Freezing, Vibration, and much more. To optimize for evening conditions Turning the Digital Crown makes the interface red to improve visibility in the dark in the dark when you use the Wayfinder face.
Ocean and Water Sports Enthusiasts
Apple Watch Ultra is designed to support water sports, such as extreme sports like kitesurfing and wakeboarding, and also recreational scuba diving to 40 meters with the new Oceanic+ app. To support these water sports, Apple Watch Ultra is certified to WR100. Apple Watch Ultra is also certified to EN 1319 which is an internationally accepted standard for diving equipment, including depth gauges that are used by divers from all over the world.5
With a brand new depth gauge, Apple Watch Ultra features a Depth app designed with an intuitive user interface. With just a glance, the Depth app displays the time and depth, current water temperature, duration of time underwater, as well as the max depth reached. Users can set the Action button to instantly launch the Depth app.
In collaboration in partnership with Huish Outdoors, known for delivering high-quality and durable equipment for recreational diving, the new Oceanic+ app turns Apple Watch Ultra into a capable dive computer. Available on the App Store later this autumn, the app uses the Buhlmann decompression algorithm and comes with dive planning, easy-to-read dive metrics, haptic and visual alerts, no-decompression limits, ascent rate and safety stop guidance. Oceanic+ also offers a personalized user profile, reports on local and current diving conditions, and the ability to create a dive logbook which can be shared with family and friends and syncs automatically to an iPhone.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Apple to combine our world-renowned expertise in scuba with the unique capability of Apple Watch Ultra to turn the same everyday watch into an innovative dive computer,” said Mike Huish, CEO of Huish Outdoors. “With Oceanic+, Apple Watch Ultra users can enjoy a new and enriched experience during scuba activities.”
Apple Watch Ultra includes all of the connectivity, activity and health-related features that make Apple Watch the best-selling smartwatch worldwide — from heart rate monitoring and the ECG and Blood Oxygen apps, to Mindfulness and Activity rings in addition to health and safety features, as well as navigation features.
Apple Watch Ultra features innovative new sensors for temperature that give additional insights into women’s health. The unique dual-sensor design minimizes bias from the outside environment and the body’s own. Utilizing the new capabilities, users can receive retrospective ovulation estimates, which can be helpful for family planning.6Temperature sensing also enables improved period predictions for users who menstruate.7 With iOS 16 and watchOS 9, Cycle Tracking users can now receive a notification if their logged cycle history shows a possible deviation, which can be a symptom of underlying health conditions.
With two motion sensors and an advanced sensor-fusion algorithm, Apple Watch can detect a serious car crash using Crash Detection. If Apple Watch detects a severe car crash, the device will check in with the user and dial emergency services if they are unresponsive after a 10-second countdown. Emergency responders will be notified of the user’s device location, which is also communicated to emergency contacts.
Apple Watch Ultra and the Environment
Apple Watch Ultra is designed to reduce its impact on the environment. It uses recycled gold in the plating of multiple printed circuit boards -which is a first for Apple Watch — as and 100 % recycled rare earth elements throughout all magnets, and 100 percent recycled tungsten within the Taptic Engine. Display glass is free of arsenic, and Apple Watch Ultra is mercuryBFR-,-, PVC-, and beryllium-free. The only Apple Watch packaging uses outer plastic wrap, and at least 98 percent of all packaging is made of fiber, bringing Apple closer to its aim of completely eliminating plastic from its packaging by 2025.
In the present, Apple is carbon neutral for global corporate operations and by the year 2030, plans to be carbon-neutral across all manufacturing supply chain as well as all product life cycles. That means every Apple device sold, from component manufacturing assembly, transport customers’ use, charging, and all the way by recycling materials and resource recovery, will have a net-zero impact on the climate.
Privacy is fundamental in the creation and evolution of every feature of Apple. When an iPhone user’s iPhone is locked with a passcode or Touch ID or Face ID, all of their health and fitness data in the Health app — other than medical ID — is encrypted. Any Health data that is backed to iCloud is encrypted both in transit and on Apple servers. In the case of iOS or watchOS with the standard two-factor authentication and passcode, Health app data synced to iCloud is protected from end to end which means that Apple does not have the key to decrypt the data, and is unable to read it.
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