New Apple Watch Ultra removes through barriers
Introducing Apple Watch Ultra
Inspired by the most extreme sporting activities, Apple unveils a revolutionary new design with breakthrough capabilities
Apple today announced Apple Watch Ultra, which offers a brand new, bold design and a plethora of features built to last, exploration, and adventure. Apple Watch Ultra introduces a 49mm titanium case with a flat sapphire front-facing crystal that showcases the largest and most vibrant Apple Watch display yet. A customizable Action button gives instant access to a wide array of useful features. Apple Watch Ultra has the most efficient battery longevity of any Apple Watch, reaching up to 36 hours during normal use.1 Additionally, a new low-power setting, ideal for multi-day experiences can extend the battery time to up to 60 hours.2 The Wayfinder watch face is designed specifically for the larger Apple Watch Ultra display and features a compass integrated into the dial, and space for up to eight different complications. Apple Watch Ultra also brings three new bands that include Trail Loop, Alpine Loop and Ocean Band — offering distinct design features that ensure an incredibly safe and comfy fit for any adventure.
Apple Watch Ultra is available to order today, with availability beginning 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.”
Bigger, Brighter, and Stronger
Made from aerospace-grade titanium, Apple Watch Ultra provides the perfect balance of weight and durability, as well as resistance to corrosion. The case can completely surround the front crystal’s flat sapphire and protects the Retina display, which has as bright as 2000 nits -2x brighter than any Apple Watch display yet. The new Action button, which is high-contrast international orange is easily customizable to provide immediate access to a wide range of functions, including Workouts, Compass Waypoints, Backtrack and more.
Apple Watch Ultra has three built-in microphones to significantly enhance the quality of voice calls in any situation. An adaptive beamforming algorithm makes use of the microphones to record voice while reducing ambient background sounds and resulting in a remarkable clarity. In windy conditions, Apple Watch Ultra uses advanced wind noise-reduction algorithms, including machine learning, to provide clear and intelligible audio for calls.
New Bands Designed for the Great Outdoors
It was specifically designed for endurance athletes and runners, the Trail Loop band is the thinnest Apple Watch band to date. The lightweight woven material is soft and flexible, allowing it to cinch to the perfect fit and the convenient tab is designed for quick and easy adjustment.
With explorers in mind with explorers in mind, the Alpine Loop band features two layers that are integrated and made of a continuous weaving process that eliminates the requirement to stitch. The upper loops, woven with high-strength fibers, offer the ability to adjust and secure attachment to the titanium G-hook fastener.
The Ocean Band HTML0is specifically designed for extreme water sports and recreational diving . It features an aluminum buckle and a spring-loaded loop. Molded from an elastic fluoroelastomer, it expands and uses the tubular design to provide an incredibly secure fit. The Ocean Band also has an optional extra-long tail, which allows the wearer to wear it comfortably over a wetsuit.
Endurance Sports and Elite Athletes
Apple Watch Ultra is an amazing device for those looking to push beyond their limits. For the first time ever on an Apple Watch, the precision dual-frequency GPS incorporates both L1 and the most recent frequency, L5, plus new algorithms for positioning. Apple Watch Ultra delivers the most precise GPS that any Apple Watch to date, providing users the most precise distance, pace, and route data for training and competing.
Apple Watch Ultra is powered by watchOS 9, which includes new advanced running metrics that evaluate performance, such as Stride Length and Ground Contact Time, Vertical Oscillation and Running Power. The new Workout Views, such as Segments Splits, Elevation, and Segments, provide important metrics at just a glance, and because of the larger display, Apple Watch Ultra is the only Apple Watch that can show six metrics at once. Users can take their fitness to the next level using features such as Heart Rate Zones, Custom Workouts, Pacer, and, coming in the coming months, Race Route. For triathlons, duathlons or other activities that involve any combination of biking, swimming or running, the new Multisport workout includes autodetection to easily switch between workouts. Apple Watch Ultra has enough battery life to allow most users to complete a long-course triathlon consisting of a 2.4-mile swim and a bike ride of 112 miles and a full marathon that is 26.2 miles.
The Action button is able to immediately start workouts and guide users towards the next segment of a custom workout or the next phase of a Multisport workout. It can also be used to mark segments, complementing the new Track running experiencethat automatically gives the most accurate pace and distance estimates for runners running on the track.3
Explorers
With the larger display, brighter and more rugged style, Apple Watch Ultra is the perfect device for explorers and adventurers in a range of environments that range from everyday to the extreme. The completely revamped Compass application in watchOS 9 surfaces more in-depth information and three distinct perspectives. The app displays a new hybrid view that simultaneously shows an analog compass dial as well as an electronic view. The turn of the Digital Crown reveals an additional view that shows latitude longitude, elevation and incline, as well an orienteering perspective that shows Compass Waypoints as well as Backtrack.
Compass Waypoints are a simple and convenient method of marking an area or point of interest directly in the app. Clicking the Action button or tapping the Compass Waypoint icon drops a waypoint which is editable by tapping the icon which appears. The Compass Waypoint complication updates dynamically in real time in both directions of the waypoint and the approximate distance.
Backtrack uses 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 retracing their steps. It can also turn off auto-pilot in the background if it is off the grid. By pressing the Action button, users can quickly drop a Compass Waypoint or start or look at a Backtrack. An 86-decibel siren is designed for emergencies, should users get injured or lost, and can help draw attention to an area. The unique sound signature includes two distinct alternating patterns, which can last for a period of time up to several hours. The first pattern hints at distress while the second is the well-known SOS pattern. For backpacking trips that last for a long time battery life can be extended by as long as 60 hours with low Power Mode plus an additional low-power setting which reduces the frequency of GPS and heart rate readings.
The on-wrist operating temperature was created to allow you to explore the most remote and extreme places including freezing cold mountains at -4deg F (-20deg C) to the blazing desert heat of 131 degrees F (55deg C).4 Apple Watch Ultra is certified to the relevant elements of MIL-STD-810H that are used in military equipment and popular among manufacturers of rugged equipment. Tests include Low Pressure (Altitude), Low Temperature, High Temperature Temperature Shock, Contamination caused by Fluids, Rain, Humidity as well as Immersion, Sand, Dust, Freeze/Thaw, Shock, Ice/Freezing, Vibration, and much more. To optimize for evening conditions Turning the Digital Crown makes the interface more red to provide better visibility in the dark with the Wayfinder face.
Ocean and Water Sports Enthusiasts
Apple Watch Ultra is designed specifically for water sports, including extreme sports like kitesurfing or wakeboarding, as well as recreational scuba diving to 40 meters using the brand newly developed Oceanic+ app. To aid in these water sports, Apple Watch Ultra is certified to WR100. Apple Watch Ultra is also certified to EN 13319 which is an internationally accepted standard for diving equipment such as depth gauges that are relied on by divers who enjoy recreational diving around the world.5
Utilizing a brand-new depth gauge, Apple Watch Ultra features a Depth app created with an easy-to-use user interface. With a single glance, the Depth app displays time and depth, current water temperature, duration in the water and the maximum depth attained. Users can set the Action button to immediately start the Depth app.
In collaboration together with Huish Outdoors, known for providing high-quality and durable equipment for recreational diving, the brand new Oceanic+ app turns Apple Watch Ultra into a capable dive computer. Available from the App Store later this season, the app utilizes the Buhlmann decompression algorithm, and also includes diving planning, easy-to-read dive metrics, visual and haptic alerts, no-decompression limit, ascent rate and safety stop guidelines. Oceanic+ also offers a personal user profile as well as reports on current and local diving conditions, and the ability to create a dive logbook which is shared with friends and family and automatically syncs to 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.”
Additional Features
Apple Watch Ultra includes all of the connectivity, activity and health-related features that make Apple Watch the best-selling smartwatch worldwide including heart rate monitoring as well as the ECG and Blood Oxygen apps, to Mindfulness and Activity rings as well as additional health, safety, and navigation features.
Apple Watch Ultra features innovative new capabilities for temperature sensing that provide more information about women’s health. The unique dual-sensor design minimizes the influence of external factors and the body itself. 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 brand new motion sensors as well as an advanced sensor-fusion algorithm, Apple Watch can detect a serious car crash with Crash Detection. If Apple Watch detects a severe crash, the device will check in with the driver and dial emergency services if unresponsive after a countdown of 10 seconds. Emergency responders will receive the location of the device which is also shared with emergency contacts.
Apple Watch Ultra and the Environment
Apple Watch Ultra is designed to minimize environmental impact. It features recycled gold plating on multiple printed circuit boardsan unprecedented feature for Apple Watch — as in addition to 100 % recycled rare earth elements throughout all magnets, and 100 percent recycled tungsten within the Taptic Engine. Display glass is arsenic-free, and Apple Watch Ultra is mercuryBFR-,-, PVC-, and beryllium-free. The only Apple Watch packaging uses outer plastic wrap, and the majority of the packaging is fiber based, bringing Apple closer to its aim of eliminating plastic packaging by 2025.
Presently, Apple is carbon neutral for global corporate operations and by 2030, plans to be 100 percent carbon neutral across the entire manufacturing supply chains and all lifecycles of the product. 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
Privacy is a key element in the design and development of all Apple’s features. When an user’s iPhone is locked with a passcode or Touch ID or Face ID, all of their health and fitness information within the Health app — excluding medical ID — is secured. Any Health data backed up to iCloud is encrypted during transit and stored on Apple servers. If you are using iOS as well as watchOS with the default two-factor authentication and passcode, Health app data synced to iCloud is protected from end to end, meaning that Apple does not have the key to decrypt the data, and is unable to read it.
Pricing and Availability
- Customers in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan as well as the UAE as well as the UK as well as the US, as well as more than 40 countries and regions, can order Apple Watch Ultra today, with availability in stores beginning Friday, September 23rd.
- Apple Watch Ultra is $799(US).
- watchOS 9 is available for Apple Watch Series 4 and later on the 12th of September on a Monday, and is required to be installed on iPhone 8 or later and iPhone SE (2nd generation) or later running iOS 16. Some features may not be available on all devices and in all regions.
- Three months of Apple Fitness+ are included when you purchase Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch Series 8, or Apple Watch SE, or new purchases of Apple Watch Series 4 or later.
- During normal use, Apple Watch Ultra can extend up to 36 hours of battery life when an iPhone present.
- Low-power settings with reduced frequency of GPS and heart rate data will be released later in the autumn.
- Coming to the US in the coming months.
- Extreme temperatures may impact some features. For more details, refer to the user’s guide.
- Apple Watch Ultra has a water resistance of 100 meters below ISO standard 22810. Apple Watch Ultra may be used for recreational scuba diving (with an appropriate third-party app from the App Store) to 40 meters and for high-speed water sports. Apple Watch Ultra should not be used for diving less than 40 meters. Water resistance is not a constant condition and may decrease over time. For additional information, see support.apple.com/en-us/HT205000.
- The Cycle Tracking app should not be used as a method of birth control. The data obtained from the Cycle Tracking app should not be used to diagnose a health issue.
- The feature that senses temperature is not a medical device , and is not intended to be used for medical diagnosis treatment, treatments, or any other medical reason.