In addition to the new Apple iPhones that were announced, the Keynote also unveiled the next line-up of Apple accessories which include the Apple Watches and the next generation of Apple AirPods. Here’s a closer look at each of them.
Apple Watch Series 11
Crafted in its thinnest and most comfortable design yet, the Apple Watch Series 11 offers the most comprehensive set of health features yet, with an even more durable cover glass, 5G cellular capabilities, and an even longer battery life.
Dubbed to be your ultimate health and fitness companion, it now offers up to 24 hours of battery life and supports fast charging so that you can still get up to 8 hours of battery life with just a 15 minutes charge.
With sleep being such an important topic for most of us, the Apple Watch Series 11 allows you to track sleep, capturing data during sleep with its powerful sensors for things like heart rate, wrist temperature, blood oxygen, and respiratory rate; even helping you to discover if you might have sleep apnea.
Along with watchOS 26, you will also be able to understand the quality of your sleep and how to make it more restorative with a new sleep score feature. This feature helps track each sleep-related category such as duration, bedtime consistency, and how much time is spent in each sleep stage, to help assign transparent and easy-to-understand metrics for your overall sleep quality.
Updates have also been made to the Workout Experience featuring Workout Buddy, a first-of-its-kind fitness experience powered by Apple Intelligence that analyses your workout data and fitness history to deliver personalised, spoken motivation throughout your session.
The Apple Watch Series 11 is priced from $599 and is available from 19 September. You can pre-order yours now here.
Apple Watch Ultra 3
In need of a more advanced smartwatch? Named as the most advanced Apple Watch, the Apple Watch Ultra 3 is the ultimate sports and adventure watch which features the largest screen of any Apple Watch, a display with a 1Hz always-on refresh rate, 5G cellular capabilities, accurate GPS, and up to 42 hours of battery life.
Incorporating Apple’s most advanced display technology with LTPO3 and wide-angle OLEDS, the Apple Watch Ultra 3 is able to have display borders that are 24 percent thinner, with an increase in the active screen area without any changes to the case size.
In addition to an update to the watch faces, the Apple Watch Ultra 3 also has a new Waypoint watch face which helps you to navigate with a live compass, and allows you to quickly turn on Night Mode to help preserve night vision.
The Apple Watch Ultra 3 is priced from $1,199 and is available from 19 September. You can pre-order yours now here.
AirPods Pro 3
Apple is taking how you experience music to a new level with the AirPods Pro 3, delivering unbelievable sound quality and the world’s best in-ear Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), removing up to 2x more noise than the previous generation.
Featuring a new multiport acoustic architecture that precisely controls the airflow which carries sound into the ear, the AirPods Pro 3 will be able to help deliver an exceptional spatial listening experience.
Alongside the next-generation Adaptive EQ, the new architecture transforms the bass response, widening the soundstage so that you can hear every instrument, and bring vivid vocal clarity to higher frequencies across music, shows, and calls.
This essentially means that you now can get ANC that is up to 2x more effective than AirPods Pro 2, with 4x more noise removed compared to the original AirPods Pro. It is also able to provide up to eight hours of music playback with ANC enabled, which is a 33 percent increase over the previous generation.
After more than 100,000 hours of user research which span over 10,000 ear scans, the AirPods Pro 3 are now the most secure and best-fitting AirPods ever. To create this improved fit, the internal architecture of the AirPods Pro 3 had been completely re-engineered to make each AirPod smaller, while the external geometry of the ear tip aligned to the centre of the body for increased stability.
Together with the new foam-infused ear tips that now come in five sizes, including a new XXS size, the AirPods Pro 3 have been designed for increased durability with an IP57 sweat and water resistance.
As the AirPods Pro have been known to be a constant companion for workouts, this new generation of the AirPods have been equipped with Apple’s smallest custom-built heart rate sensor to track your heart rate while you workout.
This, is in addition to another new feature — Live Translation. Instead of relying on your phone to help with the translation, you will now be able to communicate in-person, hands-free with the AirPods Pro 3.
When enabled, Live Translation will help you to understand another language and communicate with others by speaking naturally with the AirPods. To interact with the other person, you can simply use your iPhone as a horizontal display to show the live transcription.
