Wearing an Apple Watch on the Ankle? New Report Explains the Trend – MacRumors
A report from The New York Times over the weekend highlighted the trend of people wearing an Apple Watch on their ankles, instead of the wrist.Apple Watch on ankle (Image Credit: The New York Times)The report highlighted reasons why some people prefer to wear the Apple Watch on the ankle:
Apple has not commented on the report, but its support documents and white papers for the Apple Watch mention that the device’s heart rate and calorie measuring functions are validated for wear on the wrist, with no mention of the ankle anywhere. Apple has not publicly come out and advised people against wearing the Apple Watch on the ankle, but it is not something that its documentation acknowledges at this time.Get weekly top MacRumors stories in your inbox.New visual intelligence features for iPhone 16 models, tweaks for notification summaries, and more.Apple Intelligence is what Apple is calling its artificial intelligence feature set, previewed at WWDC in June 2024. Here’s everything we know.Image Playground is Apple’s dedicated image creation app that can build cartoon-like pictures based on text descriptions.
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