Apple Watch Ultra 2 Black Review
The ideal sports watch has sleep apnea notifications and a gorgeous new finish and Titanium Milanese Loop band.
Apple Watch Ultra 2 Black Titanium band
Apple unveiled Apple Watch Ultra 2 in a beautiful black titanium finish with watchOS 11 improvements that improve the most robust and competent Apple Watch.
Apple Watch Ultra 2 is perfect for athletes and adventurers of all kinds, with the most accurate GPS in a sports watch, the brightest display of any Apple device, and up to 36 hours of battery life with typical use or 72 hours in Low Power Mode. The finest sports watch now has breakthrough insights from training load and the Vitals app, sleep apnea notifications from the Tides app, new Action button customization options, and more with watchOS 11.
A new Titanium Milanese Loop band for Apple Watch Ultra is lightweight and elegant for any occasion, perfect for water activities. New Apple Watch Hermès Ultra 2 has the durability and features of Apple Watch Ultra 2 with a nautically inspired watch band and special Hermès watch face.
Apple Watch Ultra 2 Black
Pre-order the black titanium Apple Watch Ultra 2, Hermès Ultra 2, and Titanium Milanese Loop today for availability on Friday, September 20.
Apple Watch Ultra 2 is now available in a gorgeous satin-black titanium finish people will adore for its striking beauty and durability. WatchOS 11’s revolutionary insights make it even more powerful.
Beautiful New Black Titanium Finish and Bands
Custom blasting gives Apple Watch Ultra 2 its new black titanium look, and the diamond-like carbon physical vapor deposition coating over grade 5 titanium makes it scratch-resistant and durable. Matching dark zirconia makes up the rear crystal.
The popular Trail Loop, Alpine Loop, and Ocean Band now include black hardware in addition to natural titanium to match the new black finish. With either Titanium Milanese Loop, Trail Loop, or Alpine Loop, Apple Watch Ultra 2 black and natural finishes are carbon neutral and constructed from 95% recycled titanium.
The first metal band for Apple Watch Ultra, the Titanium Milanese Loop, is inspired by divers’ mesh and fashionable enough for any occasion. Like the case, the band is made of aerospace-grade titanium and is both lightweight and resistant to corrosion. A proprietary method of weaving, flattening, laser-welding, grinding, and delicately polishing titanium wire creates precise, interlinking lozenge shapes with a sumptuous drape and a dual-button, parachute-style buckle for all water activities. Natural and black titanium will be available for the Milanese Loop.
Apple Watch Ultra 2 Features
Enhancements for All-Terrain and Water Activity
Apple Watch Ultra 2 has the brightest display Apple has ever made at 3000 nits, perfect for outdoor activities. Many activities require GPS precision. Apple Watch Ultra 2‘s precise dual-frequency GPS uses powerful satellite and signal models, unique positioning algorithms, and Apple Maps data to give the most accurate distance, route maps, and metrics in a sports watch.
The new Vitals app in watchOS 11 lets users rapidly monitor nightly health measures and obtain health information. The training load function provides a new approach to track how workout intensity and duration affect a user’s body. Custom Workouts’ Up Next display shows current and forthcoming intervals.
The Action button can be configured to make starting an exercise, switching training types during a Multisport workout, and more easier. WatchOS 11 lets users swap actions by pushing and holding the Action button. This makes Stopwatch, Backtrack, Flashlight, Translation, Voice Memos, and Shazam easy to access.
A new Apple Watch Tides app in watchOS 11 helps users plan and enjoy open water activities and be aware of shifting conditions. Seven rolling days of anticipated tidal information for beaches and surf locations worldwide, including high and low tides, rising and falling tides, tide height and direction, and sunrise and sunset, is mapped against a timeline. A simple map shows beaches near users, and additional features provide current tide information for their favorite sites or the nearby beaches.
Apple Watch Ultra 2 is the ideal sports watch for all athletes and adventurers:
Runners get enhanced stats, configurable exercise views with Heart Rate Zones, Race Route, industry-first automatic track-running identification, Custom Workouts, and more throughout workouts and races. For long runs, Apple Watch Ultra 2 can last 12 hours outside or 35 hours with all low-power settings.
Cyclers can monitor their workout as a Live Activity on iPhone or attach Bluetooth-enabled cycling equipment to Apple Watch Ultra 2 for more metrics and experiences, including cadence, an automatic functional threshold power estimate, and Power Zones. Apple Watch Ultra 2 tracks heart rate, speed, elevation, and distance.
Apple Watch Ultra 2’s WR100 certification allows automatic stroke detection and lap count for swimmers. watchOS 11 adds Custom Workouts for pool swims to track intervals and preview the next workout. The Workout app displays water temperature during Pool Swim and Open Water Swim exercises.
Offline maps with turn-by-turn directions, Waypoints, and GPS data backtracking in the Compass app enhance trail experiences. Custom hiking routes can be saved and synced to Apple Watch with iOS 18.
The Oceanic+ app, developed with Huish Outdoors, converts Apple Watch Ultra into a dive computer.2 Snorkelers may now view popular places nearby and access weather, water temperature, and tidal conditions from the snorkeling community with the Oceanic+ app this year. My logbook stores all snorkeling trips, including routes and underwater images. Users can identify fish by automatically color-correcting and analyzing photos against a vast, localized database.
Apple Watch Ultra 2 battery life
Apple Watch Ultra 2’s sharpest display and lengthy battery life assist golfers. Users can use the high-frequency motion API to obtain course information, tools, and insights from third-party apps to better their game.
Apple Watch Ultra 2 is perfect for rowing, skiing, snowboarding, tennis, and other activities due to its durable, corrosion-resistant titanium build, huge vivid display, and long battery life.
Informative Sleep Apnea Alerts
Sleep apnea affects breathing during sleep and can be dangerous. The illness, which affects over 1 billion people globally, is often undetected and can have serious health effects. Apple Watch adds sleep apnea detection to its intelligent health functions.
Apple Watch’s new Breathing Disturbances metric uses the accelerometer to analyze wrist motions that disrupt breathing patterns to identify sleep apnea. Some breathing abnormalities are normal, but tracking them can assist determine sleep quality and may indicate sleep apnea if they occur regularly over numerous nights. Apple Watch’s new sleep apnea algorithm analyzes respiratory disruption data to inform users of indicators of the condition. The warning will include the time of probable sleep apnea, educational materials on the need of treatment, and a PDF with three months of breathing disturbance data to reference with a doctor.
Sleep apnea warning was built using powerful machine learning, validated in a clinical study, and is likely to gain FDA and other worldwide health authority marketing authorization soon. Sleep apnea notifications will be available in over 150 countries and regions this month, including the U.S., EU, and Japan.
Playback via speakers
Apple Watch Ultra 2’s two speakers play audio for the first time. The Apple Watch can play audio from Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Apple Books, and third-party apps, just like phone conversations.
Additional watchOS 11 Features
Apple Watch Ultra 2 has many other watchOS 11 improvements:
- More customizable than ever, activity rings can be set by day of the week to deliver the correct motivation at the right time. In order to unwind, recover, or take a break, users can also pause their rings for a day, a week, a month, or longer without it harming their award streaks.
- Further GPS location improvements allow the Workout app to track distance for field sports, Downhill Skiing, Cross Country Skiing, Snowboarding, Golf, Outdoor Rowing, and more. Users can view route maps for other workouts.
watchOS 11 also includes a more intelligent Smart Stack to help users quickly access important information, a new Photos watch face that uses machine learning to help users choose and compose their best photos, the Translate app and Check In on Apple Watch, the ability to scroll through any app with the double tap gesture, summarized notifications powered by Apple Intelligence, and more
Apple Watch Hermès Ultra 2
The first Apple Watch Hermès Ultra 2 has a natural titanium case, the new Hermès En Mer band in Bleu Nuit (dark navy), and a Hermès Maritime watch face. Hermès’ nautical, diagonal rib pattern on the En Mer band’s high-density textured weave makes it durable and comfortable. Apple Watch Hermès Ultra 2 keeps on the wrist during scuba diving, sailing, and high-speed water sports thanks to its wide titanium buckle.
A sweeping outside bezel displays seconds on the new Hermès Maritime watch face, which has high-visibility Cape Cod numerals. The Action button turns the watch face into a boat racing-inspired countdown timer.
Pricing, availability
Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, the UAE, the U.K., the U.S., and more than 49 other countries and regions may get Apple Watch Ultra 2 in black titanium today, with stores opening Friday, September 20.
Apple Watch Ultra 2 price
Apple Watch Ultra 2 costs $799 (U.S.) in natural and black titanium.
American Apple Watch Hermès Ultra 2 costs $1,399.
Today, apple.com/store and the Apple Store app will sell new bands like the Titanium Milanese Loop, with stores opening on Friday, September 20.
On Monday, September 16, Apple Watch Series 6 and later will get watchOS 11, which requires iPhone Xs and iOS 18. Devices and locales may not have full features.
Apple Watch Series 10, SE, Ultra 2, and Series 6 or later come with three months of Apple Fitness+ and Apple Music.
AppleCare+ for Apple Watch offers unlimited unintentional damage, battery service, and priority support from Apple Watch experts.
