Apple Watch Series 6 lets you measure your blood oxygen level with a revolutionary new sensor and app. See your fitness metrics on the enhanced Always-On Retina display, now 2.5x brighter outdoors when your wrist is down. And reply to calls and messages right from your wrist.
It's the ultimate device for a healthier, more active, more connected life. It's the ultimate device for a healthier, more active, more connected life. That's why AppleWatch Series 6makes it easy to get a clear picture of your general health and wellbeing. Measure your blood oxygen level with a revolutionary new sensor and app, take an ECG from your wrist, and set a bedtime routine and track your sleep.
Apple Watch Series 6 is water resistant and supports Apple Pay purchases like prior models, plus it has all the same health-related features in addition to blood oxygen monitoring. The S6 SiP with 64-bit dual-core processor is up to 20 percent faster than the S5 in Apple Watch Series 5. The always-on altimeter detects your elevation in real time.
The cellular Apple Watch offers all the features you'd get with the GPS model — a blood oxygen monitor, ECG, sleep tracking and always-on display — along with solo functionality. That means you don't need a phone nearby, or a WiFi connection, to make or take calls, reply to messages, receive notifications, download apps and stream music. Wireless service plan required for cellular service. Apple Watch and iPhone service provider must be the same. Not all service providers support enterprise accounts; check with your employer and service provider. Roaming is not available outside your carrier network coverage area.
Contact your service provider for more details. Check /ca/watch/cellular for participating wireless carriers and eligibility. Apple Watch and iPhone service provider must be the same. Check apple.com/ca/watch/cellular for participating wireless carriers and eligibility. It lacks an always-on display and some of the Series 6's more advanced health features, however, including the ability to take an ECG and measure the oxygen saturation of your blood.
It's a strong alternative to the Series 6 if you don't mind a less health-focused experience. The Watch SE, which shares design elements with the Series 6, along with key health and safety features like fall detection, starts at $279 for the GPS-only model or $329 for the GPS and cellular version. It lacks an always-on display, as well as blood oxygen saturation and electrocardiogram readings—we go into detail on the differences between the two watches here. Other than that, it supports all basic Apple Watch functionality such as heart rate monitoring, fall detection, activity monitoring, emergency SOS, Apple Pay support, sleep tracking, water resistance, and more.
It comes in cellular and GPS options much like the Series 6. Connection may vary based on network availability. See support.apple.com/en-ca/HT for additional setup instructions.
Check apple.com/il/watch/cellular for participating wireless carriers and eligibility. See support.apple.com/en-il/HT for additional setup instructions. Check apple.com/watch/cellular for participating wireless carriers and eligibility. See support.apple.com/en-us/HT for additional setup instructions. Measure your blood oxygen level with a revolutionary new sensor and app.
See your fitness metrics at a glance with the enhanced Always-On Retina display. With Apple Watch Series 6 on your wrist, a healthier, more active, more connected life is within reach. Blood Oxygen app measurements are not intended for medical use, including self-diagnosis or consultation with a doctor, and are only designed for general fitness and wellness purposes. Apple Watch Series 6 and Apple Watch SE require an iPhone 6s or later with iOS 14 or later.
Some features, applications and services may not be available in all regions or all languages. See apple.com/au/watchos/feature-availability for the complete list. If you have a cellular model, it then goes into the cellular setup process. With this feature, you can make and receive calls and access apps using cellular data when your Apple Watch isn't connected to your iPhone. When you click Set Up Cellular, it brings up a new page that lets you sign in with your cell phone carrier and add the Apple Watch to your plan .
Next, it goes over watch faces, noting that you can change them later in the app or on the watch itself. Not all features will be available if the Apple Watch is set up through Family Setup. Wireless service plan is required for cellular service.
Check apple.com/in/watch/cellular for participating wireless carriers and eligibility. See support.apple.com/en-in/HT for additional setup instructions. Measure your blood oxygen level with a revolutionary sensor and app. Since the Apple Watch made its debut five years ago, one of its primary functions has been to help you monitor your health.
The Series 6 further impresses thanks to a faster processor, a brighter always-on display, and an improved altimeter that can track your elevation changes in real time. The Series 6 has all the excellent health, safety, and lifestyle features of its predecessor. The watch's Move, Exercise, and Stand rings are a personal favorite, as they help motivate me to stay active on a regular basis and cheer me on when I do. Apple is late to the game with sleep tracking capabilities, as most smartwatches and fitness trackers already offer this feature, and Apple's version is still pretty basic. After you wear the Apple Watch to bed, the Health app on your iPhone shows when you fell asleep, woke up, and your total time in bed and asleep for the night. It also shows a graph of your heart rate, with your maximum and minimum recorded beats per minute.
It charts your sleep for the week and month, and shows your average time in bed and average time asleep. The Series 6 uses similar technology as a pulse oximeter—the device they clip onto your finger at the doctor's office—to measure your blood oxygen saturation. Its SpO2 sensor shines red and infrared light through your skin, onto the blood vessels of your wrist, and measures the color of your blood, which indicates the amount of oxygen present. Bright red blood is more saturated, and dark red blood is less so. Changes in your body or elevation can impact your blood oxygen level.
The Apple Watch has been our longstanding Editors' Choice for its excellent performance, unparalleled app selection, and ample health and fitness tracking features. The Apple Watch SE and Series 3 are missing these capabilities, but they're likely to appear on a new flagship watch like the Series 7. Note that the altimeter can be inaccurate in some weather conditions.
Apple Watch Series 6 offers the same health features available in the Series 5, plus blood oxygen monitoring. All Apple Watch Series 6 models feature a black ceramic and crystal back that houses multiple sensors for heart rate monitoring, blood oxygen monitoring, and ECGs. Compared to the Series 5, there are twice as many LEDs on the bottom. The Apple Watch Series 6 has four LED clusters and four photodiodes to support the health monitoring features. There are some tradeoffs with the Apple Watch Series 3 because it is a much older model, such as a smaller display, an older chipset, and the lack of a compass, fall detection, ECG, and blood oxygen monitoring. Check apple.com/uk/watch/cellular for participating network providers and eligibility.
See support.apple.com/en-gb/HT for additional setup instructions. According to Apple, the Series 6 offers the same 18-hour battery life as the Series 5, but drains less battery when streaming music and tracking certain workouts like indoor and outdoor runs. In testing, the watch surprisingly beat Apple's estimate. After wearing it for a full 24 hours, it still had 14 percent battery left.
During that time, I had the always-on display mode enabled and used the watch to track a 37-minute run with GPS. I also had Do Not Disturb on most of the time, so I wasn't getting notifications, which could have extended battery life. After nearly 25.5 hours, I got a notification that the battery was down to 10 percent, so I finally put it on the charger. You have the option to enable the Blood Oxygen app during the setup process, which lets you check your blood oxygen saturation levels and measure them throughout the day .
Next, you can optionally enable automatic updates; if you do, you'll receive a notification before the update is installed. Series 6 has the most advanced health and wellness features ever in an Apple Watch. You can measure your blood oxygen levels,2 take an ECG from your wrist,3 be alerted if it detects unusually high or low heart rates or an irregular rhythm,3 and even measure your current heart rate. Measure your blood oxygen level.¹ Keep an eye on your heart.
See your fitness metrics on the enhanced Always-On Retina display. Live a healthier, more active, more connected life. Check apple.com/au/watch/cellular for participating carriers and eligibility. See support.apple.com/en-au/HT for additional setup instructions. Apple today officially unveiled the new Apple Watch Series 6, bringing new color options, faster performance, and support for blood oxygen level monitoring. Here are some additional details on the Apple Watch Series 6, new Apple Watch bands, and more.
Measure your blood oxygen level.1Keep an eye on your heart. 1 Wireless service plan required for cellular service. Measure your blood oxygen level.¹ Keep an eye on your heart.
The display dims when the wrist is down in order to preserve battery life, but key features like watch hands stay lit all the time. Touching the watch face or raising the wrist brings the display back to full brightness, and to minimize battery drain, Apple has optimized watch faces for the feature. The Apple Watch's display also has a variable refresh rate that drops from 60Hz to as low as 1Hz when the watch is inactive. Sleep was probably the biggest addition with the latest version of watchOS. This was probably the biggest blind spot for the line, compared to the competition.
At the moment, the sleep tracking is, admittedly, still pretty basic. Like much of the rest of the on-board tracking, it's mostly compared with changes over time. The metrics include time in bed versus time asleep, as well as incorporating heart rate figures from the sensor's regular check-ins. More specific breakdowns, including deep versus light versus REM sleep haven't arrived yet, but will no doubt be coming sooner than later.
This is doubly important given the fact that the Series 6's biggest new feature — blood oxygen monitoring — is highly dependent on you getting a good fit. The sensor utilizes a series of LEDs on the bottom of the watch to shine infrared and red light through the wearer's skin and into their blood vessels. The color of light that reflects back gives the watch a picture of the oxygen levels in the blood. The whole thing takes about 15 seconds, but only works if your fit is right. Even with the right Solo Loop on, I found myself having to retake it a few times when I first started wearing the watch.
The rest of Apple's comprehensive health and fitness-tracking features from previous generation Apple Watches return. The Series 6 will track many different sports and has long enough battery life to see most through a marathon. Note you can play music from Apple Music straight from the watch without your phone but not Spotify.
To that end, Apple is developing a new health notification based on the vital measurement. When Apple Watch detects low blood oxygen saturation below a certain threshold, a notification will trigger alerting the user similar to current heart rate notifications. And if you plan to use the Apple Watch to track your sleep, you'll likely need to modify your charging routine given its battery life. Instead of charging it at night, I recommend giving it a quick top-off in the morning when you're getting ready for work, or at night when you're getting ready for bed. This isn't such a novel feature, as several other fitness trackers and smartwatches can measure your SpO2 level, including the Garmin Vivoactive 4, Samsung Galaxy Watch3, and Fitbit Sense. The Fitbit Sense, however, only measures your blood oxygen saturation level automatically when you wear it to bed, and you need a specific clock face enabled for it to work.
Alongside the Apple Watch Series 6, Apple introduced the lower-cost Apple Watch SE, which is priced starting at $279. The Apple Watch SE is identical in design to the Apple Watch Series 6, but it is lacking several key features to keep costs down. It has an S5 chip that was in the Series 5, but it lacks an always-on display, comes only in aluminum, has no blood oxygen sensor, doesn't do ECG readings, has no U1 chip, and doesn't support 5GHz WiFi. Blood oxygen monitoring is enabled through four clusters of red, green, and infrared LEDs along with four photodiodes on the back of the Apple Watch, all of which measure light reflected back from blood. A custom algorithm included in the new Blood Oxygen app measures blood oxygen between 70 and 100 percent. On-demand testing is available through the app, and the watch also occasionally takes background measurements when a person is inactive, including during sleep.
Apple Watch comes with important safety features like fall detection, which can detect if your loved ones have taken a hard fall. If it senses they're immobile, Emergency SOS will connect them with emergency services, even if they haven't signed up for a cellular plan. They can also get help in an emergency — all over the world — by simply pressing and holding the side button. Overall, Apple has made a bunch of improvements to the Series 6 over its predecessor.
The latest Apple Watch features an S6 processor that the company claims is 20 percent faster than the Series 5's chipset. It also has a display that's 2.5 times brighter, without any impact to battery life, which Apple says is actually longer. What's more, the charging speed has also been bolstered. Apple's fitness activity tracking is very good. It won't beat a dedicated running or triathlon watch for battery life, utility, data or practicality but it isn't so far off that more casual runners won't be happy. Leaving the design aside, the technical and spec-based rumors about the Apple Watch Series 7 make me excited to see it.
WatchOS 8 has a variety of new features that hint at even more comprehensive health tracking, which may signal new sensors being included on the Series 7. 9to5Macexclusively reported over the weekend that Apple Watch will gain the ability to detect blood oxygen saturation, a critical vital for maintaining heart and brain health. The new health feature isn't the only change coming to Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7. Apple Watch Series 4, which launched a year later, featured a major redesign with a screen that was 30% bigger in both models and a 50% improvement on its processor over the Series 3 version. Speakers and microphones were rearranged so they were louder and more useful, and Series 4 introduced the fall detection feature, ECG capabilities, and the second-generation heart rate monitor. Its GPS and cellular features are simply brilliant.
