Apple plans to watch your sleeping patterns in order to adjust your morning alarms so you get just the right amount of sleep. The firm was granted a patent this week that details the use of devices like the iPhone and Apple Watch to track sleep as Apple …
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Apple Watch Series 3 release date, specs, features
And it is believed that Apple will build on this momentum by releasing the Apple Watch Series 3 in the coming months. A release date of September this year has been linked with the smartwatch, which would mean that it would launch at an extremely similar …
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Apple is crushing the Swiss watch industry — and one brand is particularly vulnerable
Smartwatches are taking over our wrists, and it’s likely to get worse for traditional Swiss watchmakers, according to UBS. The Apple Watch is bigger than every Swiss watch brand except Rolex, analysts at the bank said in a note on Monday. And Swatch is …
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Have Apple Watch Flaws Left an Opening for Fitbit?
After pioneering wearables, Fitbit is in catch-up mode. While the company remains a leader in basic fitness trackers, it’s ceded the watch ground to other players, like Apple and Garmin. That’s become a problem as consumers have shifted their tastes in …
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How to install watchOS 4 beta on your Apple Watch
Alongside iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra at WWDC 2017, Apple also announced a new version of the operating system software for the Apple Watch, watchOS 4, which adds a range of new features and interface tweaks. You can more about these enhancements here …
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How Apple’s wearable tech could and should help your health
but one that got relatively short shrift was the Apple Watch. Now more than two years in, the Watch has undergone a major transition from the product that was first announced, focusing in on specific uses like notifications, health, and fitness.
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The Apple Watch, chopsticks and water bottles: Objects designers love to hate
For seven days the vast hall serves as home for the collectors, critics, press and dealers as they interact, and ultimately, transact, while across the road the art world does the same at Art Basel. As they bide their time, waiting for that “sale of the …
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Watch Apple build its brand-new campus in 18 seconds
Here’s a time lapse view of Apple Park, Apple’s new $5 billion campus in Cupertino, California that opened to employees earlier this year. Apple Park began construction in 2014. This footage comes from Planet Labs, a company that plans to sell high …
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Apple Watch watchOS 4: Toy Story To Apple Pay, The 8 Best Bits. Should You Upgrade?
The new Siri Watch face proactively provides information it thinks you might need. It automatically serves information that’s most relevant to you but you can also invoke Siri by touching the complication on the display. The idea is it adapts to your …
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Apple Watch 3 latest rumours – release date and specifications
When will Apple launch a Watch Series 3? We round up the rumours surrounding the Apple Watch 3 release date along with specs and features. If you can’t wait any longer, you can buy a Series 1 or Series 2 Apple Watch, but also read about the best …
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Why Apple Watch Sales Could Soar With This FDA Plan in Action (AAPL)
Yet Apple’s smartwatch has failed to deliver the kind of numbers many analysts and investors were hoping for. A new initiative from the Food and Drug Administration could change that, by making it easier to certify digital health devices. The FDA move …
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Apple’s watchOS4 – The One Thing You Missed That Watch Owners Will Love
I’ll be reporting on all the new features that have just gone into the developers’ beta of watchOS 4 here soon, ahead of the software’s release in the fall, but first, here’s what I think is the neatest change, and the one that’s gone scarcely noted.
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How to Modify Settings on Your Apple Watch
The breadth of functionality available on the Apple Watch has grown considerably since the original model was first sold in early 2015. The ingenuity of the WatchOS developer community has been on full display as more and more apps are released, taking …
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Apple Watch 3 May Monitor Your Breathing
Apple is getting more serious about turning its Apple Watch into a health-monitoring tool. And based on a patent the company just filed for, measuring your breathing rate could one day be part of the smartwatch’s bag of tricks. Essentially, Apple’s hoping …
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Apple Watch Series 2 v Garmin Vivoactive HR: Which is best for you?
The Apple Watch Series is undeniably more fitness-focused than its predecessor, so it’s no surprise that it might come into the equation for anyone looking for a mix of smartwatch and sports watch features in one device. Another device that offers those …
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Apple Watch Celebrates Your Birthday With a Special Message in watchOS 4
Among multiple software announcements that came out of WWDC last week, Apple unveiled details about watchOS 4, the newest operating system that will arrive on Apple Watch devices later this fall. As developers spend more time with the watchOS 4 beta, new …
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Hands-on Preview: watchOS 4 – The 6 best features coming to your Apple Watch
The Apple Watch has spent the last two years figuring out exactly what it wants to be. That might seem like a strange thing to say about a five-star gadget, but the problem hasn’t been a lack of good apps or design polish – it’s still, by some distance …
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