Inspired by the most extreme activities, Apple unveils a
revolutionary new design with breakthrough capabilities
Apple® today announced Apple Watch Ultra™, which brings a new
bold design and a wide range of features built for endurance,
exploration, and adventure. Apple Watch Ultra introduces a 49mm
titanium case and flat sapphire front crystal that reveals the
biggest and brightest Apple Watch® display yet. A customizable
Action button offers instant access to a wide range of useful
features. Apple Watch Ultra has the best battery life of any Apple
Watch, reaching up to 36 hours during normal use.1 Additionally, a
new low-power setting, ideal for multi-day experiences, can extend
battery life to reach up to 60 hours.2 The Wayfinder watch face is
designed specifically for the larger Apple Watch Ultra display and
includes a compass built into the dial, with space for up to eight
complications. Apple Watch Ultra also brings three new bands —
Trail Loop, Alpine Loop, and Ocean Band — offering unique design
features that provide a secure and comfortable fit for every
adventure.
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Introducing Apple Watch Ultra, the most
rugged and capable Apple Watch. (Photo: Business Wire)
Apple Watch Ultra is available to order today, with availability
beginning Friday, September 23.
“Inspired by explorers and athletes from around the world, we
created an entirely new category of Apple Watch designed for new
and extreme environments — it’s the most rugged and capable Apple
Watch yet,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer.
“Apple Watch Ultra is a versatile tool that empowers users to push
their boundaries with adventure, endurance, and exploration.”
Bigger, Brighter, and Stronger
Made from aerospace-grade titanium, Apple Watch Ultra provides
the perfect balance of weight, durability, and corrosion
resistance. The case rises up to surround all edges of the flat
sapphire front crystal, protecting the Retina® display, which is up
to 2000 nits — 2x brighter than any Apple Watch display yet. The
new Action button in high-contrast international orange is easily
customized for instant access to a variety of features, including
Workouts, Compass Waypoints, Backtrack, and more.
Apple Watch Ultra has three built-in microphones to
significantly improve sound quality in voice calls during any
conditions. An adaptive beamforming algorithm uses the microphones
to capture voice while reducing ambient background sounds,
resulting in remarkable clarity. In challenging windy environments,
Apple Watch Ultra uses advanced wind noise-reduction algorithms,
including machine learning, to deliver clear and intelligible audio
for calls.
New Bands Designed for the Great Outdoors
Designed specifically for endurance athletes and runners, the
Trail Loop band is the thinnest Apple Watch band to date. The
lightweight woven textile is both soft and flexible, allowing it to
cinch to the optimal fit, and the convenient tab is designed for
quick and easy adjustment.
With explorers in mind, the Alpine Loop band features two
integrated layers made from one continuous weaving process that
eliminates the need for stitching. The top loops, interspersed with
high-strength yarn, provide adjustability and a secure attachment
for the titanium G-hook fastener.
The Ocean Band is designed specifically for extreme water sports
and recreational diving with a titanium buckle and corresponding
spring-loaded loop. Molded from a flexible fluoroelastomer, it
stretches and utilizes the tubular geometry for a secure fit. The
Ocean Band also has an optional extra-long tail that allows users
to comfortably wear over a wetsuit.
Endurance Sports and Elite Athletes
Apple Watch Ultra is an incredible tool for endurance athletes
or those who aspire to push beyond their limits. For the first time
ever in an Apple Watch, the precision dual-frequency GPS integrates
both L1 and the latest frequency, L5, plus new positioning
algorithms. Apple Watch Ultra delivers the most accurate GPS of any
Apple Watch to date, providing users the most precise distance,
pace, and route data for training and competing.
Apple Watch Ultra is powered by watchOS® 9, which includes new
advanced running metrics to measure performance, like Stride
Length, Ground Contact Time, Vertical Oscillation, and Running
Power. New Workout Views, such as Segments, Splits, and Elevation,
provide important metrics at just a glance, and thanks to the
larger display, Apple Watch Ultra is the only Apple Watch that can
show six metrics at once. Users can take their training to the next
level with features such as Heart Rate Zones, Custom Workouts,
Pacer, and, coming later this year, Race Route. For triathlons,
duathlons, or activities with any sequence of swimming, biking, or
running, the new Multisport workout includes autodetection to
easily switch between workouts. Apple Watch Ultra has enough
battery life for most users to complete a long-course triathlon,
consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and full
marathon at 26.2 miles.
The Action button can instantly begin workouts and move users to
the next interval of a Multisport workout. It can also be used to
mark segments, complementing the new Track running experience,
which automatically provides the ultimate pacing and distance
estimates for runners at a track.3
Explorers
With the bigger, brighter display and rugged design, Apple Watch
Ultra is the perfect technical tool for adventurers and explorers
in a range of environments, from the every day to the extreme. The
completely redesigned Compass app in watchOS 9 surfaces more
in-depth information and three distinct views. The app displays a
new hybrid view that simultaneously shows both an analog compass
dial and a digital view. Turning the Digital Crown® reveals an
additional view that includes latitude, longitude, elevation, and
incline, as well as an orienteering view showing Compass Waypoints
and Backtrack.
Compass Waypoints are a quick and convenient way to mark a
location or point of interest directly in the app. Pressing the
Action button or tapping the Compass Waypoint icon drops a waypoint
that can be edited by tapping the icon that appears. The Compass
Waypoint complication updates dynamically in real time with both
the direction of the waypoint as well as the approximate
distance.
Backtrack uses GPS data to create a path showing where the user
has been, which is useful if they get lost or disoriented and need
help retracing their steps. It can also turn on automatically in
the background when off the grid. With a single press of the Action
button, users can quickly drop a Compass Waypoint or start or view
a Backtrack. An 86-decibel siren is designed for emergencies,
should users become lost or injured, and can help draw attention to
a location. The unique sound signature incorporates two distinct
alternating patterns, which can repeat for up to several hours. The
first pattern suggests distress, while the second mimics the
universally recognized SOS pattern. For multi-day backpacking
trips, battery life can be extended to reach up to 60 hours using
Low Power Mode plus an additional low-power setting that reduces
frequency of GPS and heart rate readings.
The on-wrist operating temperature was designed to help explore
the most extreme and remote locations, from freezing cold mountains
at -4° F (-20° C) to the blazing desert heat at 131° F (55° C).4
Apple Watch Ultra is certified to the relevant aspects of
MIL-STD-810H, used for military equipment and popular among rugged
equipment manufacturers. Testing includes Low Pressure (Altitude),
High Temperature, Low Temperature, Temperature Shock, Contamination
by Fluids, Rain, Humidity, Immersion, Sand and Dust, Freeze/Thaw,
Ice/Freezing Rain, Shock, Vibration, and more. To optimize for
evening conditions, turning the Digital Crown makes the interface
red for better visibility in the dark when using the Wayfinder
face.
Ocean and Water Sports Enthusiasts
Apple Watch Ultra is designed for water sports, including
extreme activities like kitesurfing and wakeboarding, along with
recreational scuba diving to 40 meters with the new Oceanic+ app.
To support these underwater adventures, Apple Watch Ultra is
certified to WR100. Apple Watch Ultra is also certified to EN
13319, which is an internationally recognized standard for dive
accessories, including depth gauges that are relied upon by
recreational divers around the world.5
Utilizing a new depth gauge, Apple Watch Ultra features a Depth
app designed with an intuitive user interface. With just a glance,
the Depth app displays time, current depth, water temperature,
duration under water, and max depth reached. Users can program the
Action button to instantly launch the Depth app.
In partnership with Huish Outdoors, known for delivering
innovative and reliable equipment for recreational diving, the new
Oceanic+ app turns Apple Watch Ultra into a capable dive computer.
Available from the App Store® later this fall, the app runs the
Bühlmann decompression algorithm, and includes dive planning,
easy-to-read dive metrics, visual and haptic alerts,
no-decompression limit, ascent rate, and safety stop guidance.
Oceanic+ also offers a personalized user profile, reports on
current and local dive conditions, and a dive logbook that can be
shared with family and friends and automatically syncs to
iPhone®.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Apple to combine our
world-renowned expertise in scuba with the unique capability of
Apple Watch Ultra to turn the same everyday watch into an
innovative dive computer,” said Mike Huish, CEO of Huish Outdoors.
“With Oceanic+, Apple Watch Ultra users can enjoy a new and
enriched experience during scuba activities.”
Additional Features
Apple Watch Ultra includes all of the connectivity, activity,
and health features that have made Apple Watch the best-selling
smartwatch in the world — from heart rate monitoring and the ECG
and Blood Oxygen apps, to Activity rings and Mindfulness, along
with additional health, safety, and navigation features.
Apple Watch Ultra features innovative new temperature-sensing
capabilities that enable further insights into women’s health. The
unique two-sensor design reduces bias from the outside environment
and the body itself. Utilizing the new capabilities, users can
receive retrospective ovulation estimates, which can be helpful for
family planning.6 Temperature sensing also enables improved period
predictions for users who menstruate.7 With iOS 16 and watchOS 9,
Cycle Tracking users can now receive a notification if their logged
cycle history shows a possible deviation, which can be a symptom of
underlying health conditions.
Using two new motion sensors and an advanced sensor-fusion
algorithm, Apple Watch can detect a severe car crash with Crash
Detection. When Apple Watch detects a severe car crash, the device
will check in with the user and dial emergency services if they are
unresponsive after a 10-second countdown. Emergency responders will
receive the user’s device location, which is also shared with
emergency contacts.
Apple Watch Ultra and the Environment
Apple Watch Ultra is designed to minimize its impact on the
environment. It features recycled gold in the plating of multiple
printed circuit boards — a first for Apple Watch — as well as 100
percent recycled rare earth elements in all magnets, and 100
percent recycled tungsten in the Taptic Engine®. Display glass is
arsenic-free, and Apple Watch Ultra is mercury-, BFR-, PVC-, and
beryllium-free. No Apple Watch packaging uses outer plastic wrap,
and 98 percent or more of the packaging is fiber based, bringing
Apple closer to its goal of completely removing plastic from its
packaging by 2025.
Today, Apple is carbon neutral for global corporate operations,
and by 2030, plans to be 100 percent carbon neutral across the
entire manufacturing supply chains and all product life cycles.
This means that every Apple device sold, from component
manufacturing, assembly, transport, customer use, charging, all the
way through recycling and material recovery, will have net-zero
climate impact.
Privacy
Privacy is fundamental in the design and development across all
of Apple’s features. When a user’s iPhone is locked with a
passcode, Touch ID®, or Face ID®, all of their health and fitness
data in the Health app — other than Medical ID — is encrypted. Any
Health data backed up to iCloud® is encrypted both in transit and
on Apple servers. When using iOS and watchOS with the default
two-factor authentication and a passcode, Health app data synced to
iCloud is encrypted end-to-end, meaning that Apple does not have
the key to decrypt the data and therefore cannot read it.
Pricing and Availability
- Customers in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan,
the UAE, the UK, the US, and more than 40 other countries and
regions can order Apple Watch Ultra today, with availability in
stores beginning Friday, September 23.
- Apple Watch Ultra is $799 (US).
- watchOS 9 will be available for Apple Watch Series 4 and later
on Monday, September 12, and requires iPhone 8 or later and iPhone
SE® (2nd generation) or later running iOS 16. Not all features are
available on all devices and in all regions.
- Three months of Apple Fitness+℠ are included for customers who
purchase Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch Series 8, or Apple Watch
SE®, or new purchases of Apple Watch Series 4 or later.
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1 During normal use, Apple Watch Ultra can reach up to 36 hours
of battery life with iPhone present.
2 Low-power setting with reduced frequency of GPS and heart rate
readings will be available later this fall.
3 Coming to the US later this year.
4 Extreme temperatures may impact some features. For more
information, refer to the user guide.
5 Apple Watch Ultra has a water resistance rating of 100 meters
under ISO standard 22810. Apple Watch Ultra may be used for
recreational scuba diving (with a compatible third-party app from
the App Store) to 40 meters, and high-speed water sports. Apple
Watch Ultra should not be used for diving below 40 meters. Water
resistance is not a permanent condition and can diminish over time.
For additional information, see
support.apple.com/en-us/HT205000.
6 The Cycle Tracking app should not be used as a form of birth
control. Data from the Cycle Tracking app should not be used to
diagnose a health condition.
7 The temperature-sensing feature is not a medical device and
not intended for use in medical diagnosis, treatment, or for any
other medical purpose.
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