The on-watch extra sensor this time is a barometric altimeter, which lists stair-climbing stats like a Fitbit.

Most people use Apple Watch as a fitness tracker.

Sarah Tew/CNET Fitness making more strides, particularly with heart Heart rate data now includes resting heart rate and graphs. Others can be added and synced when the watch is charging. The first time I used the watch, after an overnight charge I found a few playlists and albums waiting for me when I went walking. WatchOS 4 now syncs music more automatically, and it's a huge difference. The iPod is gone: long live the new iPod.Īpple Watches could always store music, but they were bad at it: syncing music from a cloud-based Apple Music account was always a time-consuming ordeal. Messages and notifications came in fits and spurts. Phone functions were generally fine, and so was email. It's unclear how many of these will be smoothed over in software updates. AirPod connectivity sometimes didn't automatically work, either. Also, many third-party apps don't currently support LTE connection yet. If it's not, you won't get those pings on the watch. And third-party notifications, like Twitter, require your phone to be on and connected to a network somewhere, even if it's not nearby. iMessages sometimes popped in all at once or not at all. I didn't experience those specific issues, but I did have weird experiences with notifications. (In the meantime, to disconnect from a problem Wi-Fi network, you need to forget the network using your phone.) It's unclear exactly when the problem will be fixed via software update, but I was told it would be soon. Apple confirmed these issues to CNET, too. Some reviews have noted that the LTE version of the Series 3 has problems connecting to LTE when open Wi-Fi networks are nearby, a bug that Apple has admitted to. Some playlists just automagically end up on your watch.

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