Apple's Watch Series 11 Review: Superb Wrist Gestures and Extended Battery Performance
Our newest Apple Watch Series 11 brings the feature the majority truly desire from a smartwatch: improved power endurance.
Otherwise, this latest version functions as an immediate successor to the Series 10, maintaining similarity in design, proportions and capabilities, with the majority of its upgrades originating from watchOS.
The Series 11 furthermore priced £30 lower within the United Kingdom, available from 369 pounds (€449/$399 USD/A$679), placed higher than the fresh redesigned Watch SE at £219 at the low end and the £749 Ultra 3 at the high end.
Design and Display
Following the design of Series Ten, the new model is just under 10mm slim, creating a slim fit to the wrist, simple to slide under cuffs and easier to wear at night.
The 2,000nit OLED screen is plenty bright for viewing in various lighting, maintaining readability when viewed from different angles, making quickly looking to check time or notifications simple.
Protecting the display by glass that is significantly more durable compared to previous models, though not quite as tough as sapphire, that remains exclusive for the more expensive titanium editions.
Performance and Battery
This latest device features identical S10 processor as last year's model but now supports 5G connectivity option plus enhanced signal strength for those times exploring remote areas.
Energy storage show improvement in size by 9% and 11% in the 42 millimeter and 46mm watches respectively.
Bigger version achieved approximately two full days during evaluation including sleep monitoring excluding workout sessions.
The majority of users will just about record two full days with overnight use until recharge becomes necessary, requiring about 66 minutes employing 20W or more powerful adapter (not included), achieving around 70 percent in half an hour.
If you do engage in exercise, the device can continue about eight hours of tracking, adequate time for endurance events or extended activities.
Technical Specifications
- Size options: Two size variants
- Case thickness: 9.7mm
- Mass: around 30 to 37g
- Computing engine: S10 processor
- Memory: 64GB capacity
- Operating system: watchOS 26
- Swim capability: 50 metres (5 atmospheres)
- Health tracking: Heart rate, ECG, Blood oxygen, Temperature, depth, mic, Speaker, NFC, GNSS, Compass, altimeter
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.3, wifi 4, NFC, UWB, optional 5G
Software Enhancements
The latest device ships with the latest watchOS, which runs on all models from 2020's Series 6 and newer.
This includes recently introduced Liquid Glass interface, which makes display features partially transparent, plus introducing two new watch faces: a large digital face called Flow sensitive to gestures plus an analog display called Exactograph, that separates hours, minutes and seconds into individual displays.
The best new feature centers on gesture control, where you rapidly twist your hand backward then returning to dismiss things returning to the watch face.
The feature operates without lifting your arm to look at the watch, meaning you can turn off alerts with a satisfying flick of the wrist.
Activity Analysis
The Apple Watch includes an extensive health monitoring suite of features from previous models plus including a couple of new features along with updated exercise application.
Blood pressure notifications monitor indicators of elevated BP during monthly analysis, notifying you to get yourself checked out if your heart rate data indicates potential underlying conditions.
The new sleep score metric enhances rest analysis more straightforward to analyze, like other brands from multiple companies.
Every day the watch shows a percentage score divided into categories across three areas: sleep length, timing and disturbances, each self-explanatory and viewable through the wellness application on your smartphone also.
Exercise companion is an AI coach employing your historical exercise information to provide motivational messages during fitness activities, like detecting previous running sessions regular activity patterns plus intensity measurement you demonstrated.
Additionally offering audible heads-up when you reach certain milestones throughout activities, such as a particular pace, heart rate, distance, duration or other metrics.
There is a choice from three speaking tones, providing audio feedback over Bluetooth headphones synced to the wearable across twelve exercise types, such as walking, jogging or biking.
But, this feature depends on if you also carry your iPhone 15 Pro or later with you, proving inconvenient prompting abandonment of the function to avoid being encumbered with a phone on runs.
Green Initiatives
Apple says energy storage maintains more than 1,000 complete charging sessions maintaining 80 percent of starting power and can be replaced for £95.
Repairs cost between £295 and £389 according to device type.
Materials include significant amounts of recycled material featuring aluminum, cobalt, copper, glass components, gold, lithium, rare earth elements, steel, tin, {titanium|
