Apple

Blood pressure

more battery

I’d love to see a smaller Ultra model. Additionally, on S9 and earlier models, allow developer more customization of the existing buttons.

Battery life. Auto exercise recognition.

The ability to use the NFC function outside of Apple Pay for NFC tags around the house

Rest days, performance metrics and a performance service (dreaming on the last one)

I would love a temperature sensor that takes ambient heat in the surroundings into account for calorie burning and reporting (as it would be neat) for my hot yoga and heated HIIT classes.

Ability to answer calls on third party voip apps would be nice.

Automatic exercise detection and commencement. I swear my Fitbit was better at recognising and just recording, I’d like the Apple Watch to do the same instead of prompting me.

Auto detect sleep mode. Better school mode with a digital clock. Interactable web browser.

Realtime wind speed and integration with third party apps for complications.

Siri that doesn’t suck. Often when running it has poor understanding of what I’m saying. Even when in a silent room sending HomeKit command it has a hard time udner

Rest days and measuring Recovery

Mine are more about current Apple technologies that making my apple watch less useful:

• Siri is just plain dumb- in 2023, it is still easier to do things manually than to get Siri to do most things (the few features I use in carplay seem ok). I know Apple's working hard on making Siri competitive with GPT and other such machine learning systems, so this one may come true. I want to use my watch to control everything with my voice, conversationally, wherever I am
• A Walkie Talkie where I can successfully invite my wife... the invites go to some apple pocket universe, even homekit has some bizarro issue with her Apple account and nothing I've tried has made any difference.
• Truly User-Customizable watch faces... I don't want to have to install a third party app or learn watch OS development (which I could do, but come on!) to make a cool watch face on a whim... a set of templates and the ability to embed images and video, can't be that hard to create for dev teams of Apple's caliber? A watch, is in its very nature, a fashion item- don't hold back self-expression for the sake of "creative control", Apple.

Running with my cellular watch while listening to music, receive phone call, answer phone call by pressing green button on watch, switch music to phone call. That's all I need.

Anything related to health. how is the interface so
ugly and pointless 😭

A battery that gets through the day and doesn’t shit the bed every time I update the OS.

Blood pressure and glucose monitoring.

For those of us that have to have 2 devices (work and personal) simultaneous multi device support would be epic. Like have the watch connected two IPhones at the same time.

FaceTime!

An actual stress score/ BodyBattery-like function. The available 3rd party ones are terribly unreliable. The only reason I keep looking at Garmins… OK, maybe I’m jealous at the battery life too…

I want a battery life that lasts at least a week before needing a recharge. That’s it. I don’t give a crap about anything else. IMO, if they made an Apple Watch without any of the health/fitness crap, I’d just buy that one. I just want a watch to tell time and quickly check info/notifications/siri.

Alcohol / DUI test.

Custom themes

Favourites back on Timer

I just want my shazam complication on the info modular face haihh regretted updating to watchos10

BPM

TELL ME WHEN MY PHONE IS FULLY CHARGED

Recommended workouts based on fitness and route creation for running

Longer battery

continuous hr monitoring setting , customizabile power saving mode (like let me choose which features to disabile or not) customization for sections inside health app like reordeing items/sections, better health metrics focused on exercise performance. Oh and i would really like a native whatsapp app 😅

I want them to make it possible for companies to make money off apps. I don’t think Apple is the best to invent new features etc., but with the history of the app store it is clear, that a lot of innovative people will do a lot of work, if they can make money. It is so sad to see apps going away from the watch because they can’t make money on them.

So I want Apple to make a community and create a marketplace for apps and features. They probably have to make some tools etc. I don’t know.

A bigger battery, damnit. I realize it's not realistic to achieve Garmin levels of longevity with the processor tech Apple is using, but c'mon - you shouldn't need to buy an Ultra to get something that lasts more than a day, and the Ultra should last at least 4 to 5 days, given that even Fitbits are capable of that.

Video. So I can click a link and watch the video instead of having to pull my phone out

Themes

A Home widget for the Smart Stack… a Workout widget that looks decent or has at least the icon. Non redundant Timer/Stopwatch widgets. (You start either and you get it running on the widget itself but also ANOTHER unnecessary widget at the top of the stack…)

Blood Glucose Monitoring.