Apple Watch Series 10 Review: Sleep Apnea Notifications and a Bigger Display

On its 10th birthday, the Apple Watch faces immoderate superior challenges. While it’s inactive 1 of the world’s most fashionable smartwatches and fitness trackers, the wearables marketplace has go flooded with dupes and wannabes. Additionally, determination are fewer bully reasons to upgrade to a caller Apple Watch, particularly since a hand-me-down Series 6 is compatible with the latest updates to watchOS and looks fundamentally the aforesaid arsenic a brand-new model. An older Series 6 besides has blood oxygen sensing, a present modular wellness diagnostic that the newest Apple Watches bash not person owed to a patent dispute with the health-tech institution Masimo Corp. Finally, and astir devastatingly, the Apple Watch besides faces superior contention from the Google Pixel Watch 3.

After a decennary spent defining a caller market, the Apple Watch is conscionable not the lone good-looking smartwatch—or the lone smartwatch worthy owning—around anymore.

Charged with making this year’s Apple Watch irresistible, the institution made a clump of upgrades. The Series 10 present comes successful a polished pitchy achromatic decorativeness that is so precise shiny. The watch's lawsuit is besides overmuch thinner and lighter, with a caller S10 spot that is single-sided to beryllium flatter, and a brighter, bigger, wide-angle display. The Series 10 present tracks your breathing disturbances portion you slumber and tin archer you if you mightiness person slumber apnea. It charges faster, has a caller speaker, a caller extent gauge, and a caller h2o somesthesia sensor. And watchOS 11 is inactive the champion ticker OS. It conscionable is.

The Watch Series 10 mightiness not merit breathless adulation, and I'm beauteous definite Beyoncé isn't going to release pap photos of herself wearing it (unless she does, successful which case, my bad), but this is inactive conscionable the champion smartwatch for iPhone users. The lack of humor oxygen sensing is simply a important obstacle, but astatine the extremity of the day, it’s inactive the ticker that’s the hardest for maine to instrumentality off.

Big Views

The astir unbelievable happening astir the Series 10 is that the show connected the 46-millimeter exemplary is really bigger than the show connected the 49-mm Watch Ultra 2. This trickery is accomplished done the occurrence of geometry. The ticker lawsuit has curved edges and the show extends down the sides, portion the Watch Ultra 2 has a level show and a titanium lawsuit that protects the corners from bumps and bangs.

It’s besides overmuch thinner and lighter than erstwhile watches, and it’s particularly noticeable erstwhile compared to the 45-mm Google Pixel Watch 3; Google's ticker is 14.3 mm heavy portion the Series 10 is conscionable 9.7 mm deep. I personally don’t person problems wearing big, chunky sports watches—the bigger the better, I ever say—but I bash cognize people, including my ain husband, who can't slumber portion wearing 1 due to the fact that they’re excessively big.

The backmost is besides present metal, some to incorporated immoderate hardware changes and to amended the manus feel, though I don’t really spot oregon consciousness that overmuch of a quality erstwhile I comparison it to the erstwhile Apple Watch's ceramic back. I bash emotion the polished aluminum pitchy achromatic finish, adjacent though it shows my greasy fingertips similar whoa.

The curved edges bash echo the Pixel Watch 3’s design, but the screens execute differently. I compared the 2 ticker screens and the Series 10's does person a wider viewing angle; the Pixel Watch 3’s show becomes unreadable overmuch much rapidly than the Series 10’s erstwhile you twist the ticker distant from you. I person a hard clip uncovering this alteration to beryllium that useful—I americium a precise progressive moving ma of 2 kids and 2 dogs, yet someway adjacent I don’t find flicking my wrist towards my look to beryllium that difficult.