{"id":789724,"date":"2026-10-02T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789724\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:46:08","slug":"apples-watch-series-12-is-coming-for-your-whoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789724\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s Watch Series 12 Is Coming for Your Whoop"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a good time for the Watch to be getting this kind of technical glow-up. Apple might still outsell the entire Swiss watch industry combined, but the last year or so has seen screenless wearables that fixate on your health take off in a major way. Both Harry Kane and Declan Rice were made Oura Ring brand ambassadors prior to the summer\u2019s World Cup, while Jay-Z<\/a> is probably the first person to wear a Whoop band with an all-gold \u201cJohn Player Special\u201d Daytona. Unsurprisingly, one of the first rumours to emerge from John Ternus\u2019s era as Apple\u2019s new CEO was the prototyping of a rival tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more to the Series 12 and Ultra 4\u2019s redesigned heart rate tracker than increased precision, even if a recent scientific study<\/a> ranked it the most-accurate wearable going. Where the first Watch\u2019s heart rate app took a measurement every five minutes or so, it now checks in every five seconds. That’s still useful when monitoring for potential complications such as an irregular rhythm, but much more so when you just wanna figure out how you\u2019re feeling. \u201cIt’s changing with everything you do,\u201d says Asha Chesnutt, a member of Apple\u2019s clinical team. \u201cSo it really helps me understand if I’m behind on my water intake or if I shouldn’t have had that extra cup of coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fittingly for a company that created a new ink formulation just so the iPhone 18 Pro\u2019s glass has a consistent shade of burgundy, the Series 12\u2019s sensor array is arranged like gemstones on an iced-out Nautilus. Larger, more power-efficient LEDs are surrounded by a circle of photodiodes, each of which has been shaped into a trapezoid at the insistence of Apple\u2019s design team to leave no dead space in the coverage. Of course, you can\u2019t see any of this finesse without ratcheting off the Watch\u2019s electrode panel, but it\u2019s a perfect example of how Steve Jobs\u2019 legacy still percolates through the company he founded. \u201cWhen you\u2019re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you\u2019re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it,\u201d Apple\u2019s former CEO told Playboy in 1985.<\/p>\n

To interpret the Watch\u2019s results, no medical or PT qualifications are necessary\u2014just wear it consistently, and the Series 12 will cook up a new \u201cReadiness\u201d score that summarizes your ability to take on the day. Much like Whoop\u2019s \u201cRecovery\u201d rating, Apple\u2019s \u201cReadiness\u201d score is personalized according to how long you slept last night, how hard you\u2019ve worked out lately and other vitals such as your blood oxygen rate and heart rate variability. It\u2019s a win for high-performance types who love proteinmaxxing<\/a>, but the concise summaries are just as useful if you\u2019re waking up to a hangover<\/a> and wondering whether you\u2019re in any state to grab some fresh air before midday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a good time for the Watch to be getting this kind of technical glow-up. Apple might still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[304,786,102,6613,43086,86,56,54,55,5913],"class_list":["post-789724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-gadgets","tag-health","tag-heart-health","tag-sleep-and-recovery","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-watches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}