The Apple Watch Series 11 Review: Wrist-Flickingly Good with Extended Battery Performance

Our latest Apple Watch Series Eleven introduces the improvement most people truly desire from a smartwatch: longer battery life.

Apart from that, this latest version serves as an immediate successor to the Series 10, keeping pace in design, size measurements and features, with most of enhancements derived from software.

The Series 11 additionally priced £30 lower within the United Kingdom, available from 369 pounds (€449/399 dollars/679 Australian dollars), and sits above the fresh redesigned £219 Watch SE in the budget category and the premium Ultra 3 at £749 for top-tier users.

Appearance and Screen

Similar to the previous Series Ten, the new model is just 9.7mm thick, which makes it a trim appearance to the wrist, easy to sneak beneath shirt sleeves and easier to wear during sleep.

Featuring a 2,000nit interface remains sufficiently luminous for seeing in various lighting, staying legible to read off-angle, which makes glancing down for timekeeping or alerts straightforward.

The surface features by glass which is twice as scratch resistant as before, while not reaching the hardness of sapphire crystal, that remains exclusive for the more expensive titanium models.

Performance and Battery

This latest device incorporates identical S10 processor as last year's model with new capability for cellular 5G capability plus enhanced signal strength during situations away from civilization.

The batteries demonstrate growth in size significantly in the 42 millimeter and 46mm watches correspondingly.

The 46mm lasted a good 48 hours during evaluation with sleep tracking when not used for fitness.

Most people can nearly be able to track two days and two nights prior to requiring power, which takes 66 minutes using a 20W or higher charger (available separately), reaching approximately 70 percent in half an hour.

If you do participate in workouts, the device can continue around 8 hours while recording, which is long enough for a marathon or multiple events.

Technical Specifications

• Dimensions: 42mm and 46mm
• Profile depth: 9.7mm
• Weight: approximately 30-37 grams
• Processor: S10 silicon
• Internal storage: 64 gigabytes
• Operating system: watchOS 26
• Swim capability: 50 metres (50m waterproof)
• Health tracking: HR, ECG, spO2, temp, Depth gauge, mic, speaker, NFC, Global navigation, Compass, Altimeter
• Communication options: Bluetooth 5.3, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC capability, UWB, optional 5G

Operating System Updates

The Series 11 comes preloaded with the latest watchOS, compatible with every version starting from Series 6 and subsequent.

Featuring recently introduced Liquid Glass interface, creating display features semi-translucent, plus introducing two new watch faces: a big digital interface called Flow reacting to motion plus an analog display titled Exactograph, dividing hours, minutes and seconds into individual displays.

The standout addition is the wrist-flick gesture, requiring swift turning your hand backward then returning to dismiss things returning to the home screen.

It works even without raising your wrist to check the display, allowing users to dismiss alarms using a quick gesture via arm movement.

Health and Fitness Tracking

This smartwatch features a complete wellness tracking package of capabilities found in earlier versions plus including some additional functions and revamped fitness program.

High BP warnings check for symptoms of hypertension over a 30-day period, informing wearers to get yourself checked out when pulse information indicates potential a hidden problem.

The new sleep score metric makes Apple's sleep tracking easier to interpret, like other brands from Google, Samsung and others.

Each morning the device displays a score out of 100 that is broken down in three sections: time asleep, schedule and wakeups, each straightforward and available through the wellness application on your smartphone as well.

Exercise companion is an AI coach that uses your previous workout data to deliver encouragement before and after workouts, like detecting existing workout history regular activity patterns plus intensity measurement you achieved.

Also featuring audible heads-up when attaining particular goals during exercise, like specific speed, heart rate, range, time or other metrics.

Users can select of three voices, providing audio feedback through connected audio synced to the wearable for one of 12 activities, like strolling, sprinting or cycling.

Unfortunately, functionality requires when you bring along recent smartphones alongside, proving inconvenient enough that I would forgo the function preventing inconvenience with a phone on runs.

Sustainability and Environment

Apple says power cells will endure exceeding 1000 full charge cycles retaining four-fifths of initial performance with replacement available at £95 cost.

Repairs cost approximately £300-400 according to device type.

It contains significant amounts of sustainable elements including aluminium, cobalt metal, copper, glass components, gold materials, lithium, uncommon minerals, steel, tin elements, {titanium|