3 years later, Apple releases the OS 27 versions and Siri got improved to the point where it can’t work on-device any more on said Ultra 2
So to get the feature back which I paid for and which was specifically used to sell me the device and which now has been taken away from me, I just have to… buy the next hardware generation?
And how long will that last before they decide to remove the feature again?
Thankfully, the Ultra 4 provides some other compelling features making this less painful, but I would have expected at least a toggle to keep old Siri on the old watch. New Siri over the network is impossibly slow and buggy (I made the mistake of installing the betas, so there’s no way back now)
Very good marketers though, I'll give them that.
Also make sure to have optimize storage off, so apps don’t just disappear randomly.
Data accuracy most certainly is not in relation to GPS which often cuts distances on the Apple Watch.
Tracking performance on the previous Apple Watch Ultra 3 was "solid" in an independent test. A little worse than competitors in some activities, a little better in others.
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/11/apple-review-ultra-3-in-...
Apple Watch is probably Apple's shittiest product today.
Pedometer apps that pull from Apple Health and offer Watch face complications are a dime a dozen in the app store.
I want to send you my money, but your expensive watch I want to buy is f**ing massive and my wrist is normally sized. I don't really understand why this is still an issue since it's been 4 years.
Thanks,
- Guy with slightly below average wrist circumference (40th %ile)
LOL @ downvoting this of all things.
Siri Recap is an electronic record of a conversation that includes timestamps. Imagine for example that during a scheduled meeting with my boss, he threatens to fire me for not doing something illegal. I now have strong evidence that this was said (even if it cant be officially attributed to him) during the time I was in a meeting with him. Not saying this will hold up in court, but it certainly is more damning that having written notes (not to mention the fact that my boss probably wouldn't say this when I am taking written notes).
Fwiw, imo, you should assume everything you say (and write) is recorded going forward.
I imagine no single spineless impotent modern court would risk a wrath of our new benevolent AI overlords calling them all criminals they really are.
But of course, I am not a lawyer.
What Apple is doing in Rewind is as legal as if you were to take a contemporary transcript of a conversation. That's not illegal.
It's legal even if you're a skilled shorthand transcriber and get every word. That's Rewind, if I've understood it correctly.
Plus satellite comms on the AW (which I'd have to spend money to upgrade the 965 to get that feature). I just might pick one up next week.
I'm considering trying Ultra just so the battery can comfortably last full day without entering power saving mode by 8pm.
Disappointing to see Apple doesn't consider battery life to be a major problem. They keep balancing efficiency and battery gains with new features consuming more juice to keep battery life roughly the same as the previous generations.
This is the reason i don't like these smart watches... I always forget to charge the watch.....
15 mins of charging during a shower is usually all I do for my S9
3 days is a complete joke. Competitors have battery lives measured in weeks rather than days (a famous, and still 100% appropriate, quote by Garmin. Now 5 years old and counting, and the situation is still as ridiculously bad).
Seriously what is it even doing to justify going through the battery so fast? Are they just bad at programming?
Man we lost it as a society.
Others are not able to eat, die because of insulin prices, struggle every day and we sit here on HN and people are thinking about buying the next gadget.
A watch for $800...
https://www.watches-of-switzerland.co.uk/Patek-Philippe-24-H...
Apple is a mass produced product under shitty work conditions.
Where does that happen? Even without insurance in America insulin is like 25 bucks a month.
And it wasn't just a case.
And i'm not allowed to reference this?
I mean i can reference a lot of other things which are still happenin in the USA or do you know want to argue that united states of america takes good care of its people?
I'm not downvoting you, but perhaps the people who are are taking issue with cherrypicking examples, which are well known for a reason -- they are uncommon. Using these to generalize America is not really a great argument.
I could point to David Clapson in the UK as an indictment of their universal health care, and it wouldn't be any better an argument.
Just don't deflect.
Btw. i'm from a country with a social system soooo
$800 is not particularly egregious.
Is this an apple fanboy club and critisism is not allowed or you don't think this critisim is valid because of your strawman argument?
watches that go for 100k or more are not uncommon
It only got 'fixed' 2023 and insulin still costs $30-50 per month for something you need to live.
Search for Alec Smith in Minnesota.
Its social critic, you did not get that? A country which let their own people die but also make such a product.
Society is so screwed :/
Why does it even trigger you then?
For what purpose? Virtue signaling?
Past that depth, you will be using diving computers and not a smartwatch. And the training you receive will help you to understand why.
We use a variety standard breathing gas mixes for the depth range based on limits imposed by density, narcosis, decompression time, and oxygen exposure.
I understand that an Apple Watch Ultra can't be used for those dives, and that's fine — they don't need to support every possible niche use case. But competing smartwatches from Garmin and Suunto do handle deeper dives and the associated gas mixes. There's nothing stopping Apple from doing the same if they want to.