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iOS 772: Choosing a New Apple Watch - Series 11 vs. SE 3 vs. Ultra 3 Compared
In this episode of iOS Today, hosts Micah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard explore the latest Apple Watch lineup, comparing the Series 11, SE 3, and Ultra 3 models. They provide insights to help listeners...
iOS 772: Choosing a New Apple Watch - Series 11 vs. SE 3 vs. Ultra 3 Compared
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Coming up on iOS today, you asked for it so we answered Rose, Mary Orchard and I,
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Micah Sargent talk about Apple's latest Apple watches and help you determine which one is right for you.
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This is iOS today, episode 772 with Rose, Mary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent.
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Recorded Tuesday, September 23, 2025 for Thursday, October 2, 2025, choosing a new Apple watch.
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Hello and welcome to iOS today.
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The operating systems and all the software and hardware that Apple provides.
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I am one of your hosts.
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My name is Micah Sargent.
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And my name is Rose, Mary Orchard and I hope we give you all an ultra experience with the app.
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Zing!
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Yes, this is our episode where we talk about Apple's new watches.
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Apple recently at its all-dropping event announced a whole slew of new devices.
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And with that came a great lineup of Apple watches.
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And it perhaps is more complex than ever when it comes to what Apple provides.
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And so after doing an episode where we talked all about the various iPhone models and helped you make a choice that way,
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we heard from folks who said, hey, would you be able to give us some thoughts on which Apple watch would be right for you or right for whatever person?
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We said yes, yes we will.
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So that's what we're going to do today.
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Apple announced the Apple Watch SE3, which is the new least expensive model.
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The Apple Watch Series 11, which is its standard model, and the Apple Watch Ultra 3,
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which is that sort of sport watch very complex model that it has.
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And so let's talk first and foremost about the series 11 before we kind of go up and down from there.
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The Apple Watch Series 11 comes in four aluminum colors and three titanium colors.
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And I guess cases is the best way to put it.
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So you do have amongst the watches the most choices available to you,
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given that it comes in rose gold, in silver, in space gray, and in jet black,
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as well as I mentioned those titanium cases, which includes slate, which is sort of the black or color,
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gold and natural.
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I always really liked the natural titanium options.
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It is for the cellular version of the Apple Watch.
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It starts at 499 and the non cellular version of the Apple Watch starts at 399.
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It comes in two case sizes as well, 46 millimeters and 42 millimeters.
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So you do have that smaller and larger option.
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And that's important because if you have owned an Apple Watch up to this point,
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then you have probably purchased at least more than one Apple Watch band.
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And so the case size that you've had up to this point will sort of inform which of the Apple Watch
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is you get in order to get the band that will fit your Apple Watch.
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So you can kind of think of them as the smaller one or the larger one.
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If you've always had the larger Apple Watch, then you'll have the larger Apple Watch bands.
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And so you need to get the larger case.
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If you've always had the smaller one, then you'll want the smaller one again because your
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Apple Watch bands will be made to fit the smaller case.
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Each of the models that we'll be talking about today, all I should say, all of the models have
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and always on retina display. So that's really great that no matter what you get,
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you're always going to be able to glance down at your watch and quickly kind of tell the time.
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You are getting a pretty good brightness with the Apple Watch Series 11 at up to 2000 Nits.
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That's going to compare to the SE that only gets 1000.
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But everything else as far as the display goes is relatively the same between them.
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There are some features that are specific to the Apple Watch Series 11 and the Ultra
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that you won't get with the SE3. So if hypertension notifications are important to you,
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that's exclusive to these models as well as the ECG,
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electrocardiogram measurements. That's exclusive to the Ultra and the Series 11.
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It is not part of the SE3. And then on the Series 11 and the Ultra 3, you can use the blood oxygen
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app to have your iPhone if you're in the US tell you what your blood oxygen levels are.
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They all offer sleep tracking, sleep apnea notifications and sleep scores. So you're not
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missing out on anything there. They all offer respiratory rate, heart rate, wrist temperature
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and sleep duration tracking. They all offer cycle tracking and they all offer emergency SOS.
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The Ultra is the only one that offers it via satellite. So you're getting quite a good
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experience regardless again of the different phones that are available or excuse me,
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the different watches that are available. And that means that you can also count on water
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resistance of up to 50 meters and some of the other things like being able to swim with the watch.
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Each of them allows technically for swimming. So that's something that you will be able to do.
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They all have the S10 chip in them. That's the big thing to keep in mind.
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It is that you are not having to deal with a different system on a chip, depending on which one
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you get. But it is important to note and understand that only the Series 11 and the Ultra 3
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offer what's called precision finding. And what that is is it has an ultra wideband chip inside
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that lets you sort of narrow in on whatever is missing. So if that's an if you're trying to find
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your iPhone and you just have your watch on your wrist, then the Series 11 and the Ultra 3 are
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going to do a better job of that. Battery life is going to be different of course between the
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Series 11, the Ultra and the SE3. Huge battery life on Ultra 3 at up to 42 hours. The Series 11
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is meant to last a day 24 hours. The SE3 has the smallest amount at 18 hours.
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But again, something that's really great this year, I feel rosemary, is that we have for once
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a really close comparison between the various models of Apple watch. I think some of the
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the coolest features and the most important features are all there on the Apple watch. And that
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I think is pretty exciting because it makes it easier to perhaps say, you know, I don't think
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that you need the Series version. I think the SE version is fine for you. And that's something
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certainly that has been part of my advice when I've had a couple of people reach out about
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which watch they wanted to get or should get. I said, you know, I don't think you need more than
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the SE3. So yeah, that's kind of an initial look and we'll break things down from there.
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Yes, yeah, I think, you know, one of the other things to remember is if you're looking at upgrading,
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how old is your current watch? Is it supported? Because on WatchOS 26, if you have an iPhone
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an Apple watch, sorry, SE2 or 3 or an Apple Watch Series 6 or newer, and that includes all of the Apple
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watch altars, then you can get WatchOS 26, which at least software-wise is going to give you all the
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new features and the new faces and so on. But personally for me, coming from an iPhone
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from a Apple Watch 10, you know, the big difference would be potentially 5G. I don't purchase
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a cellular Apple watch, so that doesn't make a difference. And the battery life is the other big one.
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Now, I'm not saying that battery life is not a worthy reason to upgrade. It is absolutely a great
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reason to upgrade, but due to the way that I charge my watch, I don't really have an issue with
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the battery life on my Apple Watch anyway. So it honestly just works out pretty well for me that I've
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decided this year is not a year that I'm upgrading. However, next year will almost certainly be
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an upgrade year because it will just be a little bit closer to or a little bit more of an upgrade
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at that point, and then I can pass it down to my parents as well. And they will also enjoy a bigger
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jump with the new watches. But it is worth considering and comparing. You know, Apple has a great
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comparison site where you can see, you know, all the way back to Apple Watch Series 1. What is the
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difference? Well, you know, if you had an Apple Watch Series 1 and that's the watch you're currently
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rocking, well, your display is only 450 nits. And now it can go to 2000 nits and you've got wide
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angle OLED, ECG, hypertension notifications and all of those things. So it's well worth actually
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using the comparison feature on the Apple Watch website to see what differences might you be getting
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between your devices because yes, that's that for me meant I went through and I looked at
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the series 10 versus series 11 and I played it with a spot the difference. And again,
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there are differences, but for me, not enough to say I'm definitely upgrading this year.
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I love that Apple has quantified by the way what all day battery life looks like. So with the,
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here's Apple's definition, all day battery life is based on the following use 300 time checks 90
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notifications 15 minutes of app use and a 60 minute workout with music playback from Apple Watch
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via Bluetooth over the course of 18 hours. Apple Watch SE 3 the GPS usage includes connection to
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iPhone via Bluetooth during the entire 18 hour test. Apple Watch SE 3 with GPS and cellular
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includes a total of four hours of cellular connection and 14 hours of connection to iPhone via
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Bluetooth over the course of the 18 hours battery life in low power mode, including sleep tracking
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is based on the following use. This is far more 430 time checks 130 notifications 20 minutes of
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app use a 60 minute workout, which is the same with music playback from Apple Watch via Bluetooth
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and that six hours of sleep tracking over the course of 32 hours only six hours. That's not
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enough sleep. Again, I really like that this is done this way. Testing was conducted by Apple in
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July and August of 2025 using pre-production Apple Watch SE 3 and Apple Watch SE 3 GPS plus cellular.
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Of course, that is for that version of the phone. I keep saying phone of the watch. It is also
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defined for the Apple Watch Series 11 and for the Ultra. For the Ultra, 600 time checks 180
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notifications 30 minutes of app use. So I like that it's kind of broken down into what
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Apple defines as all day use as opposed to just being like, oh yeah, I kind of touched it
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throughout the day. I looked at it a couple of times and you know, did this did that. It's nice
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to see and hear what exactly that is defined as. So let's now kind of talk about the watches.
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Oh, and I wanted to mention to Kevin in our discord brings up a good point. It says, I've been
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obsessed regarding the differences between the two watches battery life. The 46 millimeter is about
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10% larger battery than the 42 millimeter, which gives about an hour longer juice. So bear that in
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mind as well. That's the obviously if you're getting a bigger case, a bigger case means it can have
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more battery inside and more battery means more battery life. So let's kind of start at the Apple
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Visit twit.tv slash ClubTweet. So you decide you want a new Apple Watch and the SE3,
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which is a mere 299 for the GPS and cellular or 249 for just the GPS is where we begin. You have two
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choices in a darker color, which they call midnight and it's aluminum or starlight, which is the
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lighter color of aluminum. And it comes in two sizes. So that's going to be the same. It's got that
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always on retina display. It's got heart rate notifications, irregular rhythm notifications,
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low cardio fitness notifications, and it's got sleep tracking. So you're getting so much of what an
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Apple Watch can provide. What would take you out of the SE3 and bump you up to the series 11?
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If you want, if you have, if your family has a history of high blood pressure or you have a
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history of high blood pressure or you just want to know what the watch can tell you about hypertension,
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that could be a reason to upgrade to the series 11 over the SE3. If you'd like to do ECG
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measurements, which are for looking for arrhythmias of different types, then you would need to upgrade.
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It does not provide ECG. And if you want to keep track of your blood oxygen, then this is also
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another reason to upgrade from the SE3 to the series 11. Outside of that, if you want to have,
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if you're someone who dives or snorkels, then you would want to at least go to the series 11,
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because the series 11 has a depth gauge to six meters and also that built in water temperature
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so that you can keep track of that. And as we mentioned before, if you like the idea of being
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able to precisely find your iPhone or other ultra-wideband items, like anything that an air tag is
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attached to, then the SE3 does not have that, so you would want to upgrade as well. I don't think
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it's enough to say that you are wanting to upgrade simply because the color is not available to you,
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but maybe that is the case. So if you want more than either the dark one or the light one,
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you would want to at least upgrade to the series 11. And the last thing that would be of importance
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to you, a reason why you would want to go up from the SE3 is that the SE3 has a nylon composite
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and sapphire crystal back. So because of the material that's on the back of the SE3,
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it's going to be more prone to scratches than what you would get from the case of the Apple Watch
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series 11 and the Apple Watch Ultra 3. It is not as strong as those other models. So if you see
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yourself using this as more of an action watch or if you tend to be kind of, I don't know, clumsy,
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then that's another reason why the SE3 might not be a good choice for you. But again,
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the screen is also not quite as bright. It can only do up to 1000 bits of brightness at
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a minimum of two nits of brightness versus the series 11, which goes up to 2000 bits of brightness.
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That's twice as bright. I think it can go down to one. It is the minimum brightness. So if you're
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somebody that does, I don't know, work in a darkened theater and need to check the time on your watch.
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That it's probably not going to make a huge difference. But if you're working in bright sunlight,
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that extra brightness could be really useful.
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Absolutely. And that's pretty much it when it comes to the differences between them,
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more importantly, why you would want to go up to the series 11 over the SE3. You do get a little
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bit more battery life on the S, or excuse me on the series and of course on the Ultra, which we'll
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talk about just momentarily. But 18 hours versus 24 hours, if you're charging it every night or
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you're charging it, you know, when you wake up, let's say you do when you use it for sleep tracking.
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So when you get up in the morning and you do your morning routine, you pop it on the charger,
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then you're probably going to be okay when you, you know, you need to pop it on again as you're
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getting ready for bed, right? 18 hours versus 24 hour, not a huge difference unless you're kind of
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going, I'd say with a smaller case size, in which case the series 11 might be a better bet for you.
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I guess I would say if sleep tracking is the main reason you're thinking about getting the Apple
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Watch, that might be another reason that I would say just go ahead and, or if you can, go for the
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series 11 instead. So I've set all the reasons why you might want to get the series 11 instead of
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the SE3, assuming that the SE3 is kind of where you go in and you need to go up from there. Why would
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you want to get the Ultra 3 over the series 11? Well, first and foremost, much bigger screen,
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49 millimeter case instead of the 46 millimeter case and the display is also far brighter. So
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A, if you just want the biggest possible watch screen on your wrist, well, that's going to be the
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Ultra. Pair that with if you are outside a lot or if you find that the Apple Watches you've had
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up to this point are difficult to read in bright light or even in, you know, semi bright light.
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Then again, the Ultra 3 has a far brighter screen. It can go up to 3000 nits of brightness.
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That's a whole more thousand nits over the series 11. It has the same hypertension notifications
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and ECG app and blood oxygen app as the series 11. So that's not going to make a difference.
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If you find yourself in places that do not have cellular connectivity and you are wanting to have
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emergency connectivity, then that could also be a reason that you go with your Apple Watch,
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particularly if you're going places without your phone there. And so you don't have satellite
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connectivity otherwise. The Ultra is the only watch that has that functionality. It's also the
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only watch that has a built-in siren. So this is really helpful if you are lost and you know,
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people are trying to find you. The siren that's inside of it is specifically designed and has
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specific frequencies made to sound to be able to be heard over longer distances. So it's sort of
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designed to do that exactly. If you are a scuba diver, if you like to snorkel, if you do other
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like water sports, this is the other reason to go with the Apple Watch Ultra 3 because it is water
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resistant up to 100 meters. That's double the water resistance of the SE3 and the series 11.
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And again, scuba, that's because it has a depth gauge to 40 meters and that built-in water temperature
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sensor. So six meters for the series 11, 40 meters for the Ultra 3. It also has dual frequency GPS.
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And so that means that the GPS is just a little bit more precise by having kind of two frequencies.
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It can narrow in on a location better than the standard GPS you get otherwise. The gestures
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are the same across the devices. The other big thing, 42 hours of battery life. There's one thing
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I can say about my Apple Watch Ultra. It's that I don't ever really worry about battery life on it.
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There have been a couple of times where, because I don't, I don't, I have an aura ring and so I don't
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use my Apple Watch for sleep tracking. But there have been a couple of times where I've gone to sleep
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and for some reason that night something was off about my routine and so I didn't put my Apple Watch
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on the charger unlike normal, what I usually do. And so I wake up the next day and go the whole day
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without needing to charge it. And so yes, the battery life on this thing is quite impressive. It also
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has a ceramic and sapphire crystal back over the SE3 in the Series 11, which feature metal and
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sapphire for the Series 11. And again, we mentioned nylon for the SE3. So bigger screen, much better
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tracking when you're out and about. And then I don't think this is important, but perhaps there are
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some people out there who do the Apple Watch Ultra 3 does feature dual speakers. So if you plan to
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rock out from your Apple Watch, or I think more likely take calls from your Apple Watch like
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Inspector Gadget, then you are able to do so with a little bit better sound from from your Ultra 3.
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Or you could just pair some airpods to it because that's going to get better sound for you and
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not annoy everybody around. And not annoy everyone else. Exactly. Please don't do it.
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Yeah. The one thing I will say that I hate about the Ultra and I'm really sad about that is
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it's too big. Okay, this is an Apple Watch Ultra. This is the first Apple Watch Ultra because I
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bought one because it has that magic action button. You can program with shortcuts to do different
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things, which seems amazing. It's quite slow. I'm sure it's faster in modern versions.
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Okay, here is my Apple Watch. And this is the small Apple Watch series 10. Okay, I'm saying small
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because it start out is 38 millimeters is now 4042. It doesn't really matter. Okay, and this
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is the Ultra on my wrist. Okay, if I try and just hold it in front, it's a little bit difficult to see.
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It is the size of my wrist. If I put this directly on my wrist, it overhangs on either side.
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I can't use Apple's provided straps even in the smallest version because they literally go around
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and like stick up and there's a tail. So if you have small wrists for whatever reason, maybe you're
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just having small wrists like I do. Maybe you're looking at getting this for a child who's
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forgetful about charging things. You need to bear that in mind. Because the other thing I found is
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third party straps also don't fit because they assume that if you're using an Ultra and therefore
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it's a big watch, you are a big person. I am just a big person. I am a regular sized human being.
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Thank you very much. I will admit that I am on the summer side, but I'm 5'7". So, you know,
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I'm not exactly short at the, you know, I have bones. I exist as a person. And you can see me from
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all angles. It's just if you stick the Ultra on my wrist, then it's like I have a second wrist
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stuck to my wrist because it's just hanging off the sides. Like I genuinely, if I put that on my
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wrist, flat on my wrist, I cannot see my wrist behind it. You know, it depends on the angle,
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obviously, but it's humongous. And that is the one thing I hate about the Ultra. And I really
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wish that they would do a small version of it because I would love a small version. I love the flat
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screen so that there's a little bumper around it that's made of metal so you're listening to
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catch it and scratch it and break it. But yeah, it's just humongous. It's thick. It's bulky.
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And I wish it was smaller. I wish they offered an Ultra Mini, an Ultra Micro, an Ultra Nano.
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That would be awesome. But sadly, they do not.
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Darn it. Darn it. Darn it. I'm still rocking my Apple Watch Ultra 2 and very happy with it. If you've
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got the Ultra or the Ultra 2, don't really feel like you need to upgrade to the Ultra 3.
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If you are planning on getting the series 11, you're definitely locked into the series Watch.
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And you have a series 10, probably not necessary series 9 or before. It's starting to look a lot more
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interesting just because, as I mentioned, they've really tried to kind of fill out the rest of the
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lineup with everything that the other watches have. If you're rocking an SE of second or first
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generation, upgrading to the SE3 is still going to be quite an upgrade because that's especially the
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watch that got a lot of attention this year with feature parity across the line. So really great
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stuff on the Apple Watch lineup. And thank you to our listener who asked us to cover the
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Dale has written in and has this to say, Hi, Rosemary and Micah. I take battery life, this is
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very impressive. I take battery life very seriously. And when Dale says this, Dale means it.
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Recently, I was able to get my iPhone 15 Pro Max to last for four days, but it was touch-and-go
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recording videos of my son's Taekwondo test with the last 10% of charge. Some of the things I do
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to get that much time on a charge are, one, always stay in low power mode, two, keep a short auto
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lock, three, when home, make calls using Google Voice on my iMac or Surface Pro instead of on the
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phone, cell tower pings e to day of battery. It is true. Cellular looking for cells, cell towers
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does e to lot of battery. Four, implemented Rosemary inspired shortcuts that put my phone in
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airplane mode when I arrive home and take me out of airplane mode when I leave home.
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Five, almost never use speakerphone. Six, minimize notifications as much as possible,
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but there are work and family ones that I almost always want to receive. Now before I continue
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with the rest of this, I just, Dale, can you please write in to tell us why, what,
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how come you are, I'm not saying it's a wrong thing. This is not me saying, why are you doing
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this? It's wrong. I'm just genuinely, I would love to hear what sounds like you're doing a lot of
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work and I'm putting a lot of thoughts into making your battery last a really long time. For me,
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for example, I would be, I would want to charge to 100% before my son's Taekwondo test to not even
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have the stress of will this last on the last 10% of charge. Is it just a sort of mini game that you
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play? Is there a reason behind it? I'm just so curious. I'd love to hear more because this is a lot
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that you're doing to make your battery last as long as it can. And I'm curious what is the reason
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behind it assuming that you have a way to charge your phone around you somewhere? Because for some
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people, it's just like, oh, I want to just see how long I can make it last. And that's fine. I just
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am so curious to hear the reason behind why you go so long between charges and why you're trying to
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make it last as long as you can before you charge again. Okay, here we go. Dale says, it's that last
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item. I'll read that last item again. Number six, minimize notifications as much as possible,
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but there are work and family ones that I almost always want to receive. So Dale says, it's that
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last item that prompted me to write you today. I have a very chatty iMessages thread of Android
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and iPhone users that is set to hide alerts, but that only occasionally applies correctly. Suddenly,
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my phone starts blowing up and it isn't family or work. It's that chat that isn't supposed to ever
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notify me. My solution to shutting down the chat notifications is to go into a focus mode,
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but since I get these messages that I shouldn't, I don't trust that I will get the important
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notifications from family or work if I do that. Do you have any idea why my phone would sometimes
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notify me about these messages when the thread is set to hide alerts? Dale. And then Dale says, in case
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it's relevant, other devices that I've accessed to iMessage include an iMac 2017 and iPad Pro,
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a MacBook Pro M3 Max and two Apple watches. I use them like the headphones swapping one out of charge.
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So Dale goes between a series four and series six Apple Watch and Dale says, it seems like maybe I
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get these notifications more often when I'm wearing one watch versus the other, but that may be my
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imagination. So Dale is saying, Dale has also included the versions of the operating systems that
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these things are running. So a shout out Dale for providing a lot of feedback. Yes, yeah. And there
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was a bunch of other information in this message as well, which I just trimmed out. Thank you,
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Dale, for saying that we could do that. Just to try and keep it to the relevant stuff. I have a
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feeling, Dale, that your watch Apple Watch series four and your iMac 2017 are part of the problem
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here. I'm not saying that they're all of the problem, but I think that they may be part of it.
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So watch OS 26 only supports series six and higher on the Apple Watch, which means the previous
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situation of watch OS didn't support watch the Apple Watch series four. And you are about four
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years out of date on the iMac. And I know that there can be funky things going on with iMessage
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syncing between devices. If anybody has ever had one device like an iPad or a Mac run out of
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battery and they've left it for a day or two, and they've been busy sending and receiving messages
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on their phone and other devices in the meantime. And then they plug that device back in.
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Everybody I know has had this experience where it goes,
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it brings in all the messages, it alerts you about all of them and you have to go into
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Martha Mosredd, even if you've already read them. And I have a feeling that something is going on
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with these devices. Now naturally in iMac is not going to be running out of battery. The series four
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and series six, it sounds like you're just hot swapping them. So you know, once on the charger,
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you pick it up with the charger, you put it on your wrist, you put the other one on the charger,
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and off you go. But the fact that both of those devices are out of date,
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it just popped up a little flag in my head that said, hmm, do these devices and do the operating
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system versions on these devices support the same settings and options properly as everything
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else. Because for example, RCS messages, which are now a thing on iPhone and Android,
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I don't think they were around so much in macOS 11, which was four years ago. Four years ago,
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RCS messages were a thing, but IOS and macOS weren't supporting them. So I wonder if,
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and I hate to say this because I don't want to say that these devices are defunct or deprecated
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or that you should get rid of them. But I wonder if temporarily taking them out of the iMessage loop.
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Just to test it, yeah. A good idea. Like just for a week, don't use the Apple Watch series for
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turn off iMessages on the iMac and just leave everything as it is and just remove those
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and see if that message stays off of alerts because it does stay off of alerts.
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Then one of those two is your problem and you can turn them back on one at a time,
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turn on the iMac, give it a day or two to catch up and then start testing.
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And then bring the Apple Watch series for back into play and see if that causes the problem.
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It may also just be that temporarily removing those devices and then bring them back into the loop
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fixes it because something was wrong on them and then they get the correct settings pushed to them.
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But yeah, something just in the back of my mind popped up when I saw macOS 11 and an Apple Watch series
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four. It just made me go there might be something there.
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Particularly because of the message forwarding and notification forwarding settings that are
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tied to Apple Watch. I've noticed in the past that it can get a little confusing and complex between
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for example your phone forwarding text messages, those would be SMS and RCS messages to your Mac.
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But then pair that with the new features like your Mac being able to this wouldn't apply as much to
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you because to this person with their iMac. But certainly with their MacBook Pro M3 Macs, which is that
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the Mac can now display notifications from the phone by way of the iPhone mirroring.
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And that could kick back into then displaying a message on the phone that kind of came from the Mac
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and the same thing that applies with the Apple Watch. Not with text message forwarding but instead with
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message notification mirroring, which is a feature within a setting rather within the watch app that
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you have to adjust independently. The other thing Dale that I wanted to mention, something that was
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actually at the root of one of my issues before where I kept getting it wasn't regularly but it was
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intermittently. I would be getting notifications from a group chat that I had absolutely said hi to
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alerts. And it was because on Mac OS and then later added to the rest of Apple's platforms,
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there is a feature called mentions. It started again on Mac OS where you didn't even have to do this
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little like at sign beforehand. You could just put someone's name or put my name and then if I got
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a message that had my name in it, I would get a notification for it. So just double check in your
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messages settings. We have a link to the support page that talks about making adjustments for mentions.
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They it tells you where to go on your iPhone to turn that off and then you can do the same thing on
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your Mac. If you have the messages app open on your Mac, you click on messages in the menu bar you
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choose settings and under general, you'll see an option that says notify me when my name is mentioned.
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So you could disable that to see if maybe it is that you didn't pick up on anytime someone mentions
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you or says your name, then the Mac is sending you a notification that then gets popped over to your
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phone. And then here's the other kind of annoying thing. If people are replying to the message
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that has your name in it, then Mac can also cause boop boop boop over and over and over again because
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it's technically mentioning you again every time, particularly if we're going between Android and
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iOS. And then another thing to bear in mind, although, day I have a feeling this isn't a problem for you,
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but I just wanted to mention it. Double check your priority notifications settings as that could
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potentially be part of the problem where it's the AI is deciding that some of the messages are
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more important than the others. So we have at the very least given you a bunch of troubleshooting ideas
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between those older devices and how they could be at the heart of this or perhaps some of these
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other features that have quirks in them that make them a little bit more complicated to use. So
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definitely check all of that out as well, Dale. And thank you for writing in. And again,
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especially thank you for the detail. It is very helpful when it comes to us being able to
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troubleshoot is simply because you mentioned the older versions of Apple Watch that you didn't
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just leave it as I have a couple of Apple Watches that Rosemary was able to go, oh, this is an older
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iMac and this is an older Apple Watch and that could be one of the problems here. So
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everyone who's writing in look at look at look at what Dale has done and follow the lead there in
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terms of providing that detail to us. Thank you. All right, it is time for us to just about wrap up
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here, which means appcaps and these are apps or gadgets that we have now or have at some time
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use that we think are great and want to share with all of you. My app cap, I'm not going to be able
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to show you to you on screen because it would result in me showing a bunch of video that I don't
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have permission to share because it's family and friends and stuff. But I will talk about this app.
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I think it's an app everybody should check out. It's from Devon Davies in the it's available in the
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Mac app store. It's available on iPhone on iPad and this app basically lets you nostalgicly look
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back at your videos that you've had before. If you are pretty much like Rosemary in my age or
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older in particular, then you will have at least had the experience of going home to family and
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having them pull out an old VHS tape pop that in and you're watching videos of you as a kid
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or your family members. I've got so much of like my grandparents visiting us when we lived
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near the beach and loads of fun video and that nostalgia of like popping in a VHS and watching
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this stuff that someone recorded with this horribly shaky VHS recorder is there's something unique
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about that. And so cassette home video player aims to provide that experience. You can look through
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your videos in they're kind of organized by year. And so then I can see all of the videos that I
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did that I took in 2015 and you can play them back just one after the other as if it's just this
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whole stream of the year. So it just goes into your photo library it groups the video by year
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and also by album so that you can just see your old videos. You can also use airplay to show it up
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on like a big screen if you want to and I found this to be quite delightful. It's just a moment
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of nostalgia and resulted in me seeing videos that I hadn't seen in a really long time and thought,
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oh yeah, I remember when I did the ice bucket challenge and had all of my co-workers do the ice
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bucket challenge. That's so fun. And then seeing videos of Henry when he was but we lad also very
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cool. Yeah, so that's Devon Davies who's made this really cute retro VHS app called cassette home
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video player. It's available for free in the app store. It has some some tip options. So if you
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want to provide a tip in the app you can do so. And then there are some extra features called
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color plus that you can get 99 cents a month 599 a year or a 799 one time purchase. So check out
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cassette home video player. Rosemary, we good to go? Yes, we are. All right. That is going to bring us
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