Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 first look: AI and major health upgrades!

We have two new Apple Watches to talk about, the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Apple Watch Ultra 4

Now, for all intents and purposes, these look like the same exact watches as last year

However, everything inside has changed from the processor to the health sensors

and this may be one of the biggest upgrades to the Apple Watch for a long time

You know what? I'm going to start with the good news. It may not be hardware-related, but it was definitely a happy surprise for me

Apple has not changed the price on the Apple Watches. Even though it changed a lot of the prices of some of the other products like the iPhone 18 Pro and raised a lot of them, the Apple watches remain the same

The Series 12 will be $399 and the Ultra 4 will be $799

Now let's get to the good stuff. One of the most important upgrades to this watch is the processor

Apple waited two years to upgrade the processor from the S10 chip to now the S11 chip

It has a faster GPU and CPU. you. And now this is going to help power a lot of the AI features that I'm going to talk about

including Siri AI, which I have been testing in beta, and now something called audio intelligence

Now, let's talk about audio intelligence because it kind of came out of left field for me. I wasn't

expecting this one. And that is a feature that's essentially going to allow your Apple Watch to

listen to you for all day Now bear with me because this sounds creepy I know Essentially if you miss part of a conversation you can go back in time and tell the Apple Watch to replay 15 seconds of that conversation So say for example you at a

restaurant, they're reading you the specials menu, and you forgot what the specials menu were

you can just click on the Apple Watch and it'll transcribe what the waiter just said. Now, you can

also do this on the spot for meetings. So if you're going into a meeting, you can enable this feature

and then it will take notes and then jot them all down in the notes app and give you all the

highlights of your meeting. Now, this feature is not coming yet. Apple has not even given a date

for it, but I'm very curious to try it. They were very intent on privacy. They said everything stays

on the cloud. It's not processed elsewhere. So none of this is accessible to Apple, but it still

raises a lot of interesting privacy questions. Now let's switch to health, which is the core of

the Apple Watch. Apple has completely redesigned the health sensors on the Apple Watch Series 12

and the Apple Watch Ultra 4. You can see here how different it looks from my original Series 11 that

I'm wearing to the new sensors on the back. Now, this is important because it allows for the Apple

Watch to take more frequent readings of your heart rate and your heart rate variability, two very

important metrics that feed into a lot of the other metrics in your Apple Watch. It will now be able to

sample your heart rate every five seconds. This was only possible during workouts before, but now

it's doing this throughout the day. This means more accuracy across the board

In fact, Apple went on to say that this is the most accurate

wearable in the market which of course we will test Now with more robust health data it will now enable something called a readiness app Now if you familiar with other devices like Whoop Aura or even the Fitbit Air you will be familiar with this score It basically tells you

how recovered your body is to take on the day. So it'll score you from not great to let's go

And then it'll kind of change throughout the day depending on your metrics. It will take into

account your workouts your vitals app and your sleep to come up with that score another cool

thing that i particularly like because sometimes i forget to sleep with my apple watch or i just

don't make it through the day to be able to sleep with my apple watch is that it will now be able

to track your vitals throughout the day not just throughout the night now the other health feature

that will be coming not just to the apple watch series 12 and ultra 4 but to other watches as well

is that apple has revamped the health app so now it's gonna look more like if you're familiar with

the Fitbit app, it's going to look more like that in which it gives you a daily summary that

incorporates a lot of these metrics and it gives you a glimpse of how you're tracking your vitals

your readiness, and put it all in one spot at the beginning of your health app experience

And it's also going to give you little AI insights that it's going to tell you how your day's going

and also give you a couple of suggestions, kind of like an AI health coach. Now, the cool thing about

Apple is that there's no subscription required. A lot of these health features that I've mentioned

require a subscription on other devices, and Apple is giving it to you absolutely free

at least as far as I know The caveat here is that a lot of these features are not ready on launch date Apple didn even give us a date in which we can test the AI features

and the health features. It just said it's launching later this year

so we will have to see them in action to truly tell if they're useful or not

Now, the tangible things that I can talk about are the new ceramic models of the Apple Watch

We hadn't seen a ceramic Apple Watch since 2019, so this is kind of a big deal

You have a white one and a dark navy one, as well as different finishes for the aluminum version

You also have a bronze version that's new to the lineup this year

Now, in terms of battery life, Apple didn't say much about the Series 12

It's going to have that same 24-hour battery. Last year, Series 11 lasted me about 28 hours, so maybe you can squeeze a couple more in

Where it is going to count is the Apple Watch Ultra 4 is going to get a bigger battery bump

Apple says it's going to last you a full two days now, and you can actually extend it now with a new exercise mode

So say, for example, you're running an ultra marathon, you are going to be able to get through races

on this extended battery mode that allows you to work out as well

I am just scratching the surface on Apple Watch features here. I was sitting in the keynote

kind of feeling a little overwhelmed because there was so much to take in this year and I'm truly excited to put all of them to the test

and tell you how that goes and to see if the Apple Watch Series 12

and the Ultra 4 are truly worth the upgrade. Obviously, we're going to have to wait a while

because a lot of these features aren't available, but I will keep you posted. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time