Since Apple launched the Apple Watch Ultra on the market, we have seen its “greatness” and robustness. We saw that it was a very different device from other smart watches, a beast compared to its smaller brothers. But today I’m going to teach you things you didn’t know about Apple Watch Ultra
With a new design and new features to get more out of it, but do we know them all?
In today’s article, we will discuss some things you did not know about Apple Watch Ultra, keep reading and check your knowledge about this device.
The first analyzes and reviews of the Apple Watch Ultra focused on the design of the watch, its robustness, and how Apple had released a new device. focused on extreme sports, on more adventurous users.
It is true that the new screen looks very nice, the biggest battery It gives it autonomy hitherto unknown in an Apple watch, an orange action button, which is the delight of its users, since it is also customizable, allowing us direct access to the exact function we want.
But it is also true that its much larger size may be an inconvenience for some users who are not so large, or who simply have small wrists.
We are going to see some functions of the Apple Watch Ultra not so well known.
Hidden Apple Watch Ultra Features
The siren makes two types of sounds
In case you get lost in the middle of a giant mountain or in the desert, beyond the range of a mobile connection, Apple Watch Ultra includes a siren among its new features.
But not all reviews echo this, Well, its 86 decibels, they may be too strong to test indoors. Therefore, few people know how it actually sounds, even some users of the device have not tried it.
We must recognize the work of Apple engineers because they put a lot of effort to create a unique, different sound that could not be confused with another sound. Additionally, this siren emits two distinct sounds in an alternating pattern. One It is a tone of “anguish” and the other emits a SOS alarm in Morse code. A complete success!
The Alpine Loop strap is not what it appears to be
The Apple Watch Ultra’s Alpine Loop band is possibly the most iconic bracelet design of this watch. It features unique looped ridges along the entire length of the bracelet itself, with a titanium hook that slides into them.
It appears to be made of two separate layers of fabric, sewn together at regular intervals to form those loops, but appearances are deceiving as this strap is actually an engineering marvel from the guys in Cupertino. Both layers are, in fact, a single piece of material.seamlessly woven as one, using an innovative technique developed just for this purpose, for this bracelet, There are literally no seams on the strap.
Apple Watch Ultra battery drains faster if it’s not next to the iPhone
The battery of the Apple Watch Ultra is 76% larger than that of its younger brother, the Apple Watch Series 8, and according to the Californian company it should give us an approximate autonomy of up to 36 hours.
At first glance, it doesn’t seem like much, since its younger brothers could give us a similar autonomy, depending on its use, but the same thing happens with the Apple Watch Ultra. Also, this watch is not just a vitaminized Apple Watch, but a top quality sports watch, very resistant, which tries to compete with watches already established in the market in terms of sports measurements, such as those of the Garmin brand. In fact, Garmin boasted about the Californian company, stating that they measure the autonomy of their watches in days and not hours.
For its part, Garmin is right, because to give an example on Garmin Enduro 2 has 34 days of autonomy and thanks to its solar charging, it could reach an autonomy of up to 46 days.
And if the 36 hours of autonomy that the Apple Watch Ultra has, according to Apple itself, are not impressive, get used to the idea that this figure is reduced to about 18n hours if you leave the iPhone at home, because the Apple Watch Ultra will pull your LTE connection, rather than the connection via iPhone.
In addition, all these figures are based on assumptions made by the guys from Cupertino, who calculate the autonomy of the device with daily workouts of approximately one hour, so, if your workouts are longer than what Apple thought, the autonomy of your device will be even less to what is mentioned here, since GPS and heart rate monitoring would be working longer than expected.
You can press the Ultra to pause a workout
Previous Apple Watch models allow us to pause a workout by pressing the side button and the Digital Crown at the same time. On Apple Watch Ultra, you can press two buttons to pause a workout. The easiest combination is the side button and the new action button.
Depending on how you use your watch for training, from time to time you may inadvertently press the digital crown or side button. This puts us at risk of pausing a workout at the wrong time and losing track of our activity.
The Apple Watch Ultra offers a solution to this, since you can disable the combination of Digital Crown and side buttonand only use the action button and the side button to pause the workouts.
Apple Watch Ultra has six metrics on screen at once
The Watch Activity app makes good use of the Apple Watch Ultra’s huge screen by displaying up to six metrics at once. You’ve never been able to see so many metrics at once on one Apple Watch screen.
But you can also configure a second screen to display six other different metrics on it. In total we would have 12 metrics on our watch during trainingto keep track of this much more precisely, and also have access to it quickly from our wrist.
Wait to receive a GPS signal before starting your run
Most sports watches on the market today make you wait to start training until they get a good signal. But the Apple Watch has always allowed us to start training without waiting for said signal to arrive, in fact, the user does not even show the strength of the GPS signal.
Like many Apple features, it’s supposed to “it just works”, and the problem comes when it doesn’t. On some occasions the maps obtained are inaccurate precisely for this reason, for not having obtained a good GPS signal.
The new Precision Start feature on Apple Watch Ultra solves this problem. It allows us to choose a workout and delays the start of it until you press the action button. AND we will see a GPS signal indicator at the top of the screen.
So if you are in a hurry you can start the training, and if not wait until you get a good GPS signal.
Apple Watch Ultra maps your runs more accurately
Apple is using machine learning to make mapping our routes much more accurate, even in places where even the Apple Watch Ultra can’t get a good GPS signal. For example, if you are going to run in the center of a big city, with thousands of antennas and tall buildings.
To solve this problem, the Apple Watch Ultra calibrates when we are in a clear place, combining GPS and accelerometer data to calculate your average stride length. Thus, They are able to calculate your distance and speed even when the GPS signal is bad.
But that’s not all, Apple Watch Ultra’s custom positioning algorithms use data from Apple Maps to correct for GPS inaccuracies. For example, if you’re running along a river and your route seems to veer into the water, adjust your route back to follow the river’s edge.
The Apple Watch Ultra uses different microphones depending on the direction of the wind.
While regular Apple Watch models only have a microphone, Apple Watch Ultra has three microphones. True, some Apple devices have three microphones, or even more, but never a company watch.
Phones use multiple microphones, and depending on their use, speaking on a call, speaking on FaceTime, or recording a video, for example, use one or the other.
In this case the Apple Watch Ultra has a noise cancellation system very similar. Well, it also uses the automatic learning that iPhones have, to automatically choose the microphone with the least wind noise, thus making sure that your calls have good audio.
