The Apple Watch Series 11 Evaluation: Excellent Gesture Control and Longer Battery Life

The newest Apple Watch Series Eleven brings the improvement most people truly desire from their wrist gadget: longer battery life.

In other aspects, this latest version serves as a straightforward upgrade from the previous model, keeping pace in styling, dimensions and features, with many of improvements coming from watchOS.

This new model additionally £30 cheaper for UK customers, available from £369 sterling (€449/399 dollars/679 Australian dollars), positioned above the newly revamped SE model costing £219 for entry-level buyers alongside the £749 Ultra 3 at the high end.

Appearance and Screen

Following the design of Series 10, the new model comes in at 9.7mm thick, resulting in a slender profile to the wrist, convenient to tuck beneath shirt sleeves plus more pleasant at night.

The 2,000nit OLED screen is plenty bright for seeing in various lighting, staying legible to read off-angle, which makes glancing down to check time or notifications easy.

The surface features using glass that is significantly more durable than earlier versions, although not as hard of sapphire crystal, which is reserved with the higher-end titanium models.

Capability and Runtime

The new watch features the same S10 chip as last year's model with new capability for optional 5G and stronger reception for those times away from civilization.

Energy storage have increased in capacity by 9% and 11% for the 42mm and 46mm watches in that order.

Larger model lasted a good two full days in testing featuring overnight analysis when not used for fitness.

Typical wearers should approximately monitor two days and two nights before needing a charge, requiring about 66 minutes with a 20-watt or greater power adaptor (not included), reaching approximately three-quarters charge in 30 minutes.

When you participate in workouts, battery endurance reaches approximately eight hours of tracking, sufficient duration for endurance events or multiple events.

Product Features

• Size options: 42 or 46mm
• Case thickness: Under 10mm
• Mass: approximately 30-37 grams
• Chip: S10 processor
• Memory: 64 gigabytes
• Operating system: watchOS 26
• Water resistance: 50 metres (5 atmospheres)
• Monitoring features: HR, Electrocardiogram, spO2, Temperature, depth, Microphone, speaker, NFC, GNSS, compass, altimeter
• Wireless features: Bluetooth 5.3, wifi 4, NFC, Ultra-wideband, optional 5G

Software Enhancements

This new model comes preloaded with watchOS 26, functioning on all models from 2020's Series 6 and newer.

Featuring Apple's new Liquid Glass design, creating interface components semi-translucent, and adds additional display styles: a big digital interface named Flow that responds to movement plus an analog display called Exactograph, dividing hours, minutes and seconds as separate indicators.

The standout addition centers on gesture control, where you rapidly twist your hand backward and reversing to close applications returning to the main interface.

It works even without looking at the device to view the screen, enabling wearers to stop notifications using a quick gesture with your hand.

Activity Analysis

This smartwatch features an extensive fitness analysis system of capabilities from previous models while introducing several fresh capabilities along with updated workout app.

Hypertension alerts check for symptoms of high blood pressure through extended monitoring, informing wearers to consult professionals when pulse information indicates potential underlying conditions.

Updated sleep scoring improves sleep monitoring simpler to understand, like other brands including various manufacturers.

Every day the watch shows a numerical rating that is broken down across three areas: sleep length, timing and disturbances, all being easy to understand and viewable in the Health app through your mobile as well.

Fitness assistant is an AI coach utilizing your previous workout data to give you motivational messages around exercise sessions, such as recognising previous running sessions regular activity patterns and exertion levels you put it.

Also featuring verbal notifications upon achieving certain milestones while working out, such as a particular pace, heart rate, distance, period or other metrics.

Users can select among three vocal styles, which speak to you over Bluetooth headphones synced to the wearable across twelve exercise types, including walking, running or cycling.

But, this feature depends on if you also carry newer iPhone models during activities, proving inconvenient enough that I would forgo this capability eliminating hassle carrying mobile devices.

Eco-Friendly Features

The manufacturer states energy storage maintains exceeding 1000 complete charging sessions retaining four-fifths of its original capacity and can be replaced at £95 cost.

Fixings require approximately £300-400 depending on the model.

It contains more than 40% sustainable elements including aluminium, cobalt metal, copper, glass, gold materials, lithium, rare earth elements, steel, tin elements, {titanium|