As good as the Apple Watch has been at setting the standard in the smartwatch market, there’s no denying that the range hasn’t changed much in recent years.
While Samsung moved toward a sleek, more sports-focused design from the Galaxy Watch 4 onward and Google adopted an almost pebble-like aesthetic on the Pixel Watch, Apple’s wearables have maintained the same look for almost a decade.
Well, if even a handful of rumors turn out to be true, then the Apple Watch 10 (or Apple Watch X) could get the desperately needed design overhaul. While we wait to see if this speculation comes true, I have a few more wish-list items that would make the Apple Watch 10 one of the best smartwatches yet (and one potential bug that could break it).
We need custom Apple Watch Series 9 faces
One of the best things about the Apple Watch is the premium range of watch faces that Apple has designed from the ground up. Whether it’s the recent casting of Snoopy, which brings the beloved character to life with excellent animations, or the time-lapses of various cities around the world, Apple has amassed quite a collection over the years, but it hasn’t left much room for expression of the user.
Apple has never been a company that gives users complete freedom to customize things to their liking, but even if the watch face library opened up a bit to include designs created by watch brands like Casio or Seiko, it would be great. aid. to allow the Apple Watch to function better as a fashion accessory.
It’s time for an Apple Health review
The simplicity of Apple’s fitness tracking software has always been one of the Apple Watch’s biggest strengths, but having spent enough time testing wearables like Garmin and Fitbit, it’s become clear that Apple doesn’t do the best job of breaking down information. in a significative way.
For example, cardiovascular recovery and sleep tracking statistics are presented to the user with very little explanation of what it means. By comparison, my trusty Whoop Strap 4.0 lets me know if I’ve been overtraining if it’s time for a rest day, or how much genuine sleep I was able to get during the total time I spent in bed.
These are the breakdowns that make a big difference and, as a result, allow users to make actionable changes. If I could get that information from my Apple Watch, it could be a game changer.
The battery situation has to change
Any fellow Apple Watch user will know exactly what I’m talking about here, and I’m still partially in disbelief that the abysmal battery life of these devices hasn’t yet been addressed.
Apple has been citing the Watch’s 18-hour battery life for so long that it seems almost moot to even mention it, but against battery champions like the TicWatch Pro 5 and OnePlus Watch 2, this one-day-per-charge reality is just starting. to look ridiculous.
One of the benefits of a smartwatch is that it can act as a backup device for when your phone runs out of battery, thanks to NFC payments and messaging, but that concept doesn’t work if you’re barely outliving your smartphone.
Please Apple, don’t change the watch band design.
One of the rumors I’ve seen is that to achieve battery gains for the Apple Watch 10, it could use entirely new Watch Bands that take up less space in the chassis, allowing for a larger battery cell.
While the lure of longer battery life may seem like a tempting trade-off, it would be a huge shame if all of the previously supported watch bands suddenly became redundant.
I say this in part because I’ve built up a nice collection of Apple Watch bands that I’d like to continue using, but there’s also a bigger issue at play. Apple has been making strides in reducing its e-waste, whether adopting carbon-neutral designs or taking charging bricks out of the box, but if it suddenly rendered countless compatible accessories useless, it would feel like an unnecessary betrayal of the entire environmentally conscious work the company has done so far.
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