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What would you like to see in watchOS 4?

  • A new App Screen

    Votes: 82 23.4%
  • New native health features

    Votes: 151 43.0%
  • Siri responding with speech

    Votes: 65 18.5%
  • A 3rd party Watch face store

    Votes: 235 67.0%
  • Other (specify in the comments)

    Votes: 30 8.5%

  • Total voters
    351

DeNachtwacht

macrumors member
Aug 2, 2012
71
16
I come from a Microsoft Band and the feature I miss most is sleep tracking. It would be great to turn it on using a Control Center button. One click that starts sleep detection, and also turns off the screen & motion detection while sleeping. It would solve two problems at once.
 
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verdejt

macrumors 6502
Jul 19, 2011
363
110
Central Florida
Besides Sleep tracking and Watch face customization I would like to see the ability to export data from Apple Health even if it's via iCloud. I understand the huge security issue with this but it would be a great feature.
 
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Cancelled
Jul 12, 2016
37,642
42,494
I'm not entirely a huge fan of the application cluster on the main screen. I'd like to see something more structured or less cluttered. And it's already been mentioned, but I would like to see being able to delete default applications that are useless or not applicable to a specific Apple Watch user.
 

newdeal

macrumors 68030
Oct 21, 2009
2,531
1,861
more streamlined system for notifications. I don't need to glance at my wrist when I get tapped, see the notification, then later check the time, see the red dot, and have to clear the notification I already viewed in order to make it go away. Also when I get an email notification and I look at the email I want to be able to force touch it to delete rather than scroll all the way to the bottom to delete it. Even short messages need a lot of scrolling with the small watch face
 

bob24

macrumors 6502a
Sep 25, 2012
641
641
Dublin, Ireland
I come from a Microsoft Band and the feature I miss most is sleep tracking. It would be great to turn it on using a Control Center button. One click that starts sleep detection, and also turns off the screen & motion detection while sleeping. It would solve two problems at once.

I also would like native sleep tracking (though some third-party apps do a decent job), but I don't want to have to trigger it manually. If Apple releases it it hope and expect it will detect your sleep automatically.
 

ftaok

macrumors 603
Jan 23, 2002
6,491
1,573
East Coast
Besides Sleep tracking and Watch face customization I would like to see the ability to export data from Apple Health even if it's via iCloud. I understand the huge security issue with this but it would be a great feature.
That would be my number 1 feature request. If Apple feels that they'd have to put it on iCloud.com to maintain security and privacy, I'd be OK with that too. I just want more data, presented in a better way.
 
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