The Apple Watch Series 12 is the start of a new wearable era

This time, heart rate monitoring is truly continuous.

You wouldn’t know that the Apple Watch Series 12 is a big deal just by looking at it. It has the same design, buttons, sizes, and sensor types as generations of Apple Watches before it. But under the hood, the Series 12 builds in major changes that lay the groundwork for big ideas about the future of health and wearables.

These ideas – and this year’s updates – can be divided into two parts: catching up to the recent boom in AI health and leading the way in AI wearables that surface helpful information based on your entire day. When it comes to the former, Apple is catching up to the rest of the wearable space, which has eagerly embraced AI …

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