Apple’s tech specs list three items in the Apple Watch Series 12 box: the watch, a band, and an Apple Watch Magnetic Fast Charger to USB-C Cable, 1 meter long. The Apple Watch Ultra 4 box lists the same three items. Neither box includes a USB-C power adapter, so you need your own. Apple Watch…
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Apple Watch Ultra 4 vs Apple Watch SE 3: $799 or $249, What $550 Buys
Apple Watch Ultra 4 costs $799 and Apple Watch SE 3 costs $249 on Apple’s Store page, a gap of $550. Apple’s tech specs show what that money buys: the S11 chip instead of S10, 50 hours of battery instead of 18, 3000 nits instead of 1000, a 100 m water rating instead of 50…
Apple Watch Ultra 4 vs Series 12 for Runners: 10 vs 18, 25 and 45 Workout Hours, L1 vs Dual-Frequency GPS
For a runner, two lines on Apple’s spec sheets separate Apple Watch Ultra 4 from Apple Watch Series 12: workout battery and GPS. Series 12 is rated for up to 10 hours of outdoor workout with Precision L1 GPS, while Ultra 4 is rated for 18 hours, 25 hours in Extended Workout and 45 hours…
How to Use the Tap Gesture and Dynamic App Grid in watchOS 27
watchOS 27 adds two navigation changes Apple describes on its watchOS page: a tap gesture, a single tap of your index finger and thumb, that selects Smart Stack widgets one-handed, and a dynamic app grid that automatically suggests your frequently and recently used apps. Both arrive with the free update on Monday, September 14, the…
Apple Watch Series 12 Has Wi-Fi 4 and Bluetooth 5.3: What the Gap With iPhone 18 Pro's Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 Means
Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 connect over Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) and Bluetooth 5.3, according to Apple’s tech specs, while the iPhone 18 Pro announced the same day has Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) and Bluetooth 6. Apple has not explained the gap, but its compare page shows the watch radios are unchanged from…
Ceramic Apple Watch Series 12 Is Slightly Bigger: 43 mm and 47 mm Cases, 9.85 mm Deep
The ceramic Apple Watch Series 12 is not quite the same size as the aluminum and titanium models. Apple’s tech specs list the ceramic cases at 43 mm and 47 mm tall and 9.85 mm deep, against 42 mm and 46 mm and 9.7 mm for the other materials, even though Apple sells all three…
Apple Watch Ultra 4 vs Apple Watch Series 11: Last Year's $399 Watch or the New $799 One
Apple Watch Ultra 4 costs $799 and Apple Watch Series 11 launched at $399 a year ago, so the question is whether the S11 chip, 50-hour battery, 100 m water resistance and satellite messaging are worth $400 over last year’s mainstream watch. They are if you hike, dive, run long distances or hate charging; if…
Apple Watch Ultra 4 vs Apple Watch Ultra 2: 36 to 50 Hours, S9 to S11 and Satellite Added
Apple Watch Ultra 4 raises the battery rating from the Ultra 2’s 36 hours to 50, moves two chip generations from the S9 to the S11, adds satellite messaging that Ultra 2 never had, charges to 80 percent in about 45 minutes instead of about an hour, and keeps the $799 price Apple set for…
iPhone Weight Ranked: 165 g iPhone Air to 254 g iPhone Duo, Every Current and Recent Model
The lightest iPhone Apple has sold in the past five years is the 165 g iPhone Air, and the heaviest is the new 254 g iPhone Duo, according to Apple’s tech specs. The iPhone 18 Pro weighs 211 g and the iPhone 18 Pro Max 249 g, both heavier than the 17 Pro models they…
How to Set Up Cycle Tracking and Perimenopause Notifications on Apple Watch Series 12
Cycle Tracking for Apple Watch Series 12 is set up in the Health app on iPhone: tap Search, then Cycle Tracking, then Get Started. Once it is on, you log a period from the Cycle Tracking app on the watch, and the perimenopause and menopause notifications Apple added for watchOS 27 arrive with the free…
How to Read Recovery HRV and the Daytime Vitals View on Apple Watch Series 12
Apple Watch Series 12 measures heart rate variability every five minutes and reports it two ways: Recovery HRV, which Apple describes as a daily stress and recovery signal, and overall HRV. Both appear in the Heart Rate app on the watch, and a new daytime vitals view lets you toggle between overnight and daytime metrics…
How to Use Live Rewind on Apple Watch Series 12: Double-Press the Digital Crown for the Last 15 Seconds
Live Rewind is not available yet: Apple says it arrives in beta late in 2026. Once it does, Live Rewind on Apple Watch Series 12 shows the previous 15 seconds of a conversation as a text snippet after you double-press the Digital Crown. Apple says the feature needs a paired Apple Intelligence iPhone 16 or…
5G RedCap on Apple Watch Series 12 Explained: What It Is and Why the Watch Does Not Use Full 5G
The cellular versions of Apple Watch Series 12 connect over 5G using RedCap, according to Apple’s tech specs, which list “Supports RedCap for 5G and LTE” for the two cellular models, A3582 and A3587. RedCap is short for Reduced Capability, a lighter 5G profile for small devices, so Series 12 is a 5G watch without…
Apple Watch Ultra 4 for Scuba and Snorkeling: 100 m, EN13319 to 40 m, and the Depth Gauge Accuracy
Apple Watch Ultra 4 is rated water resistant to 100 meters under ISO 22810:2010 and certified to EN13319 for recreational scuba diving to 40 meters, with a depth gauge Apple rates as accurate to plus or minus 1 meter. Those figures come from Apple’s tech specs for the $799 watch, which reaches stores on Friday,…
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 Price in Singapore and the UAE: S$599, S$1,199, AED 1,599 and AED 3,199 to Start
Apple Watch Series 12 starts at S$599 in Singapore and AED 1,599 in the UAE, and Apple Watch Ultra 4 starts at S$1,199 and AED 3,199, according to Apple’s press releases for each country. Those are starting prices only; Apple’s Store pages for Singapore and the UAE do not show per-size, titanium, ceramic, cellular or…
Every Apple Watch Ultra Compared: Ultra, Ultra 2, Ultra 3 and Ultra 4 in One Table
Apple has released four Apple Watch Ultra models in four years, every one at $799: the original in 2022, Ultra 2 in 2023, Ultra 3 in 2025 and Ultra 4 this week. Across those generations the chip went from S8 to S11, rated battery from 36 hours to 50 hours, peak brightness from 2000 to…
Apple Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3 After the Event: Are They Still Sold, and at What Price?
Apple no longer sells Apple Watch Series 11 or Apple Watch Ultra 3 on its own store. As of September 10, Apple’s Store page for Series 11 returns a 404, the Ultra buy page lists only Ultra 4 from $799, and the Apple Watch lineup consists of Series 12 from $399, Ultra 4 from $799…
iPhone Duo vs iPhone 16 Pro: Two-Year Upgrade From the Last Titanium Small Pro
An iPhone 16 Pro owner looking at iPhone Duo is weighing a 199 g titanium phone with a 6.3-inch display, a 5x telephoto and 27 hours of video playback against a 254 g titanium foldable with 7.6-inch and 5.4-inch displays, no telephoto and 44 hours closed. The gap is $1,000 against the 16 Pro’s $999…
iPhone Duo vs iPhone 17: $1,200 Apart at Launch Prices, and Where the Money Goes
iPhone 17 launched at $799 and iPhone Duo starts at $1,999, a $1,200 gap at launch prices; against the $929 Apple’s Store page charges today for an unlocked 256GB iPhone 17, the gap is $1,070, or $1,100 against the $899 price with carrier activation. The money buys a second display, a folding 7.6-inch panel, the…
iPhone Duo vs iPhone Air: Apple's Thinnest Phone vs Its Foldable, 165 g vs 254 g
iPhone Air is 5.64 mm thick and weighs 165 g; iPhone Duo is 5.2 mm thick open, 11.3 mm closed, and weighs 254 g, so the foldable is the thinner phone only while it is unfolded and it carries 89 g more. Both are titanium, both use a 2x crop of a 48MP main sensor…
iPhone Duo vs iPhone 17 Pro: $900 More Than Last Year's Pro, and What the 7.6-Inch Screen Buys
iPhone Duo costs $1,999, which is $900 more than the $1,099 an iPhone 17 Pro cost at launch, and for that you get a 7.6-inch inner display in place of a 6.3-inch one, a 5.4-inch outer screen, the A20 Pro, a 2TB option and up to 44 hours of video playback with the phone closed.…
iPhone Duo vs iPhone 17 Pro Max: Should Last Year's Big Pro Owner Fold?
If you bought an iPhone 17 Pro Max last September, iPhone Duo asks you to swap a 6.9-inch phone with a 4x telephoto and 39 hours of video playback for a 7.6-inch folding display, a 2x crop in place of that telephoto, and 44 hours of video closed or 31 hours open, at $1,999 against…
iPhone Duo GPS and Sensors: Dual-Frequency GPS With NavIC, Barometer, and Four Ambient Light Sensors
iPhone Duo uses dual-frequency GPS that works with six satellite systems, GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, BeiDou and NavIC, according to Apple’s tech specs. The same sheet lists a barometer, a high dynamic range gyroscope, a high-g accelerometer, a proximity sensor and four ambient light sensors, twice the usual count, which is the clearest hardware sign…
iPhone Duo USB-C: USB 3 at 10 Gb/s and DisplayPort Output, What You Can Plug In
iPhone Duo’s USB-C port supports USB 3 at up to 10 Gb/s and DisplayPort output, according to Apple’s tech specs. That puts it in the same class as iPhone 18 Pro for wired transfers and about 20 times faster than the USB 2 port on iPhone 17 and iPhone Air. iPhone Duo's 7.6-inch inner display,…