In a departure from its usual naming conventions, Apple is rumored to christen its upcoming smartwatch the Apple Watch X, commemorating its 10th anniversary. Much like the revolutionary iPhone X, this iteration, expected in 2024 or 2025, could usher in a new era with a thinner design, an innovative band attachment mechanism, a cutting-edge microLED screen, and the addition of blood pressure monitoring, according to reports from Bloomberg.
Health-First Approach: AI Integration and Beyond
Beyond the anticipated hardware upgrades, Apple might further position its smartwatch as an indispensable health assistant. Expanding artificial intelligence integration could empower the Apple Watch X to provide even smarter and more personalized health insights. With Double Tap as a recent addition, there’s immense potential for refining and optimizing this interaction method, making it more intuitive and convenient.
Longer Battery Life and Enhanced Metrics
As user expectations evolve, Apple could address long-standing desires for extended battery life, setting a new benchmark for smartwatches. Additionally, enthusiasts have long awaited features like workout recovery metrics, customizable activity goals, and more comprehensive sleep insights. Whether through a new model or a software update, these enhancements could redefine the Apple Watch experience in 2024.
Stay tuned for more updates as the Apple Watch X shapes up to be a milestone release, blending innovation, style, and functionality in celebration of a decade of wearable technology excellence.
More AI smarts, especially for health-related features
Apple gave the Apple Watch Series 9 an AI boost. It’s the first model that can process certain types of Siri requests locally. Queries that don’t require an answer from the internet — such as setting alarms or timers — can be carried out on the device itself without pinging the cloud, speeding up the whole process. A future software update will make it possible for Siri to respond to health-related questions in this way, enabling it to answer requests about your sleep from the night before and about Activity Ring progress.
That type of insight would go beyond simply logging data and turning it into a graph or chart. It would make it easier to actually change your habits based on the information coming from your smartwatch. The Apple Watch’s Activity Rings already encourage you to get up and move or take a few extra steps. Now imagine how much more motivating it could be with observations like these.
Future Apple Watches could indeed include more AI-powered health tools. Bloomberg reports that the tech giant is working on an AI-fueled coaching program that’ll provide Apple Watch wearers with tailored suggestions and advice.
An Action button on the regular model
Ever since the Apple Watch Ultra debuted in 2022, I’ve been awaiting the Action button’s arrival on cheaper Apple Watch models. The Action button turned out to be a handy way to quickly launch a workout or jump between apps.
Now that Apple has brought the Action button to the iPhone 15 Pro, we hoping it’ll trickle down to other devices, like the expected Apple Watch X. Putting the Action button on premium products like the Apple Watch Ultra and iPhone 15 Pro was a good starting point. But now that widgets play a bigger role in how we generally navigate the Apple Watch’s interface, there’s more room for physical buttons to shine when it comes to specific targeted circumstances, like shortcuts. And that’s especially important on a screen as small as the Apple Watch’s.
