r/AppleWatchStandalone

I’m actually checking with ultra users in general. Does anyone wear them while showering/sauna/steamroom/swimming/bathing, maybe actually scuba dive with it also? I’m always always take it off in these extreme conditions and wondering how they hold up if always left on? I’m on the 4 now but had one since the 2 and always take it off in these scenarios. I’m a certified scuba diver and thinking of taking it up again, but last time I went diving was before the ultra.

A big one! Your pet eats now. Feed it the Bursts you earn from steps, workouts and games, then spend Sparks on wands and living skies.

Go check out WatchieBesti: Watch Pet, our favourite Apple Watch pet, now 😄

Feed Your Pet

• Every step, every workout and every Brain Boost game earns Bursts, and Bursts are food. Serve them up and your pet eats, cheers and grows faster than it ever could on its own.
• Meal reminders. Bank enough Bursts and a nudge arrives at breakfast, lunch, dinner or dessert time, opening straight to the feed screen. Your pet is hungry. Do not keep it waiting.
• You can feed your pet up to 15% of its current growth stage per day, all at once or bit by bit!

Spark Store

• Feeling thrifty? Convert your Bursts into Sparks instead and spend them in the new Spark Store.
• Five animated habitat worlds to buy and switch between. Skylight hangs a living sky over your pet that follows your own sleep schedule, with sunrise, storms, lightning, moon phases and shooting stars. Rainbow Mist, Rainbow Spark, Lava Lamp and Emoji Rain each react to your pet's mood and how your day is going.
• Nine wands, held and waved by your pet. Tap and a themed emoji burst fires from the tip, and every so often lightning strikes.
• A welcome gift of Sparks for new players, with a starter wand matched to your pet's kingdom.
• Outfit history: see which wand and habitat effect your pet was wearing on any past day.
• Optional Spark packs are there if you want a top up. No subscriptions, ever.

iPhone Widgets and iOS Updates

• Your pet, right there on your Home Screen. Pet Mood, Pet Stats and a small pet frame.
• Tap a calendar square, mood ring or activity bar and the app opens straight into that day.
• Day timeline. Tap any segment of the mood ring and the whole day unfolds: event cards, burst markers, a weekday drill down and a mood distribution view. Swipe to move between days.
• Ten watch case tints for the watch preview on iPhone, from Jet Black through Titanium and Polished Steel.
• The watch mockup on iPhone now matches real Apple Watch Series 11 proportions.

New

• Two new Brain Boost games, ten in total. Besti Break is a Digital Crown paddle game with Quick and Full modes. Treasure Tumbler is a crown powered safe cracking game.
• Bestiary on iPhone: a species encyclopedia with kingdom habitat tiles, stat grids, and workout and burst counts for every pet.
• Favourite species, so the pets you love are never far away.
• Three pets on the way, and you can preview them now: Phoenix, Sulkmander and Void Shadow.
• The Besti Encyclopedia now runs to twenty nine articles, including a how to play guide for every Brain Boost game.

Smoother, Everywhere

• Over fifty performance fixes went in behind the scenes.
• Animations stay out of each other's way. Effects pause the moment they leave the screen or the tab and idle at a lower frame rate, so the frames go to whatever you are actually looking at.
• Lighter on battery too.

Improved

• Every Brain Boost game got a joy pass - check them out!
• Beat your goal and the rings get richer at every tier, topping out in a rotating rainbow aurora.
• The mood calendar and mood ring dials now work with VoiceOver, and pet effects respect Reduce Motion.
• Translations refreshed across all twelve languages.

Fixed

• Hatching, stage ups and graduation could get stuck or lose their celebration. Rebuilt so every case resolves.
• Mood, activity score and complications could go stale or disagree with the watch around midnight, goal changes and iCloud sync.
• Workouts recorded right after a data wipe were being lost.
• The daily goal streak capped at 366 days instead of 365.
• Parental gate Digital Crown focus, plus a touch alternative.
• Very, very many additional fixes.