Apple Watch Workout App Gets Corner Buttons, Music Integration in watchOS 26

In watchOS 26, the Apple Watch Workout app has received its biggest interface overhaul since it launched, introducing a redesigned layout that promises easier entree to cardinal features.


Four caller country buttons present supply speedy entree to fashionable workout customization tools including Workout Views, Custom Workout, Pacer, and Race Route. Apple has besides integrated euphony and podcast setup straight into the Workout app itself. Users tin present configure audio to automatically statesman playing erstwhile they commencement exercising, eliminating the request to power betwixt apps mid-workout.

The update includes intelligent playlist enactment done Apple Music integration (with a subscription). It tin present automatically take playlists based connected some workout benignant and idiosyncratic listening preferences, though users clasp the enactment to manually prime from suggestions.


For podcast listeners, the app volition aboveground recommendations based connected erstwhile listening habits during circumstantial workout types. A runner who typically listens to existent transgression podcasts during jogs, for instance, mightiness spot those suggestions prominently featured.

The country fastener attack is simply a departure from the erstwhile scrolling interface, and should hopefully marque one-handed cognition easier during exercise. watchOS 26 is presently disposable successful developer beta, with a nationalist beta expected to get adjacent month.
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