Hey there, it's me again. Uh, today I want to talk about Apple's new readiness score on the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Ultra 4 here and talk about my experience with it so far. You see, I'm kind of a nerd and I obsess all about these readiness scores. In fact, if you look up on my arm here, I have this band and on this band I have four different fitness trackers and all these trackers provide their own readiness score or something equivalent to that. So, when Apple announced the new readiness score on the Series 12 and Ultra 4, I was very excited. This is something they absolutely needed for a while now. So, in today's video, I want to show you some comparisons between Apple's readiness scores and all these other things I'm wearing. And on top of that, just share some of my thoughts about how this feature works, the new Apple Health app, and some of the quirks that it has because there are a couple that are super annoying, and I I hope they can fix them. Another big part of this is the new Apple Health app. They announced the complete redesign to the Apple Health app and I do have it on my iPhone 17 here along with the old version on my iPhone 18 Pro here. Keep in mind as we go through this though that this new version of Apple Health in the middle here is in beta. This is the public beta version. In fact, it just updated again last night. So, some of the new things work, but they're still working on it. This is not the final version. Back to the readiness score, though. Looking at it on the new Apple Watch Series 12 here, you can see this morning I got a uh nine or go for it. And this readiness score is just a gauge on how fresh or ready I am to take on the day ahead. This is based on a 1 to 10 scale. And there's four different categories or buckets that your score will fall into. If you've got a low score, you're going to see recover or pace yourself. And if you've got a high score like I do today, you're going to have ready or go for it. And this readiness score is based on a variety of factors including your activity, your calories burned, your workout effort from previous workouts, and all of your training load data as well. On top of that, your vitals, your overnight metrics like your heart rate, respiratory rate, your HRV, your wrist temperature, blood oxygen saturation, and it's going to roll in your sleep score as well. Now, the thing about Apple's sleep score is it's pretty much only based on duration of sleep. They don't really roll in a bunch of other factors when it comes to your sleep score. They do consider your sleep stages for the score, but they don't roll in things like your HRV, for example, and that can skew things a little bit when it comes to your sleep score because you could technically have a very long and deep night of sleep according to the sleep score. But if your HRV was super low, maybe had alcohol the night before or something like that. If you wear an Apple Watch, you've probably seen this before, you might wake up feeling groggy, but still see a relatively high sleep score. And that's where the readiness score can actually account for that because the readiness score does look at your HRV and other metrics. So, you could have a lower readiness score and a somewhat high sleep score, if that makes sense. Now, the readiness score in particular does require that you sleep with the watch continuously for 7 days in a row and wear it throughout the day as well for the most accurate data. Now, I started wearing the Apple Watch out in California at the Apple event. I put it on that night uh so I made sure I could unlock the readiness score. So, I've got a few days of use with it now and I just want to show you some examples. And for these examples, I actually documented how I slept to the next morning. I also wore all these test devices so we can kind of have an apples to apples comparison. September 16th, I got a fair night of sleep in my personal opinion. I had a very stressful day. A lot of things went on between personal life and work life. I didn't get to bed on time. I was actually up late working on a video, coincidentally. But my actual sleep during that night was okay. Not amazing, but okay. I felt okay in the morning. The next morning, when I looked down at my Apple Watch, I got a six or in terms of my readiness score. When it came to Garmin's body battery from the Garmin circa band on my arm here, I got a 60 out of 100. Garmin's training readiness, which is a different metric, but still kind of falls into this ballpark, uh, was a 50. The Aura ring I'm wearing showed me a 79 out of 100, telling me I was somewhat ready. The Google health readiness score from my Fitbit Air told me 65. And the Mazefitit with the Helio Band's hybrid charge feature told me 85. Finally, the Whoop Band 5.0 0 gave me an 80% in terms of recovery. So, as you can see, those scores are kind of all over the place, but they're also doing things a little bit differently in each algorithm. They all don't account for the same things. I would say largely though, if I established a baseline with each device and I knew what a good night of sleep was in terms of the readiness score, they would probably all make sense to me in one way or another. One thing I will note though is that Garmin always trends towards the lower side of things where the Apple Watch and a lot of these other devices trend towards the upper end or a little bit more generous. And I find Google Health or the Fitbit Air uh with its readiness score to sort of land right in the middle. That might mean something good. It might mean something bad. This is just my experience. Now, to jump forward a little bit to another night of sleep that I considered a very good night of sleep. I got to bed early. I was well rested. Uh things were going well that day. I wasn't super stressed out and I got to bed early and my kids were in bed and asleep on time. I woke up the next day feeling quite refreshed and on that day I got a 9 out of 10 in terms of the Apple readiness score or go for it. Garmin's body battery gave me a 97 which is quite high for Garmin. Garmin's training readiness was 90. The Aura ring gave me an 85 a little bit lower. Google health readiness score from the Fitbit Air gave me an 88. and Amazefitit's hybrid charge gave me an 87. So largely on a good night of sleep, it seems like all these devices can identify a good night like high HRV, long durations in deep sleep stages. Uh it's pretty easy to notice. It seems like the challenge with these devices is really on those poor nights of sleep where some of them will consider a night poor when others won't. Now, when it comes to the Apple readiness score, just like some of the other scores like Amazefitit's hybrid charge and Garmin's body battery, the score is dynamic. And what that means is throughout the day, the score can change. You wake up with a nine or go for it in the morning and then go and run a marathon, you're probably going to have a lower number after that marathon. Now, in my experience so far, in terms of the dynamic nature of the readiness score, it's not like overly dynamic compared to other devices. For example, Garmin's body battery is super dynamic and so is Amazefitit's hybrid charge. meaning you could wake up with a very high Garmin body battery or hybrid charge and by the end of the day you could still run it down to like 5%. On the other hand, Apple's readiness score does change over time, but it doesn't change drastically. So, if you have a 9 in the morning and then go run 10 miles, it might drop you down to like a seven by the end of the day. It's not going to run you all the way down to one or zero or whatever. In some ways, I do like the way Apple's readiness score works. It's a lot simpler and I don't find myself obsessing over it like some of their competition. In some cases, I can find myself becoming a little addicted to Garmin's body battery and wanting to keep that number up. And it also gets in my head a little bit. Sometimes I'll wake up in the morning and notice a low body battery and find myself thinking, "Oh, I must feel bad because my watch is telling me so." And I feel like I'm not alone in that camp. And I honestly think that's why Apple has designed the readiness score on their watches to be a lot simpler. They don't give you a ton of data, graphs, historic information. On the other hand, if you are a datadriven person and like seeing graphs and a whole bunch of other data along with your score, that's where Apple falls a little bit short. And that's going to be up to you to decide which one is right for you or which one you prefer. I think the important thing to remember when you're using a device like this with a readiness score, that could be the Aura Ring, could be your Garmin, your Whoop Band, whatever, you need to remember that these are not medical grade devices. These are simply consumer devices that are designed to help guide you and validate the way you feel. Your readiness score should not be dictating the way you live your life. Even if you wake up and have a super low score on whatever device you're using, it doesn't mean you should put off your run that day. It just means you should maybe reflect on how you feel, take that self-evaluation, and then continue with your day. And if you feel good, still go for the run. Now, I want to quickly talk about some of the ecosystem quirks and features about the Apple Watch readiness score and Apple Health in general. So, I've been using the Apple Watch Ultra 4 and the Series 12 together. However, I do not sleep with both watches every night. The cool thing about having multiple Apple Watches, this is probably going to apply to a very small amount of people out there, is that if you have both paired to the same Apple account, they will sync up. For example, I did not sleep with this Series 12 last night. I did sleep with the Ultra 4 here. And when I woke up in the morning and open up both of my phones, which have the watches paired to each one, or they're not even on the same device, the Series 12 still showed me a readiness score, which is really cool. That sync is not real time. It's pretty intermittent. So, if you wake up and don't see that score right away, it might take a few minutes to sync up and then it will be displayed. Just keep that in mind. This does open up some possibilities, though. If you don't love sleeping with the Apple Watch Ultra 4 and you find it just a little bit too big, you could potentially own an Ultra 4 and a small version of the Series 12, sleep with the Series 12, and still get all of your sleep and readiness data on your Ultra 4. Kind of cool. Very expensive, but yes, kind of cool. And that functionality also makes me wish that Apple has released a screenless device like a Whoop Band because that would make this ecosystem even cooler. With all that good stuff out of the way, I do want to mention some frustrations I have with the readiness score. First of all, there's no history. So, if I go into Apple Healthier, this is again the new version of Apple Health, and tap on readiness. Uh, first thing you notice is it's not populated yet. Like I said, it's intermittent and it's still loading. But the really annoying thing with Apple Health and the readiness score is that there's no historical data. I can't scroll down and find a graph of like the previous week of readiness or previous month of readiness. I can't even scroll back to the previous day and see my readiness score for yesterday. Of course, you can look at your historical data for things like your sleep score and some of your vitals like your HRV, but the readiness score in particular, there's no there's no historical data. Another thing I found odd about this is that when I did a full export of my Apple Health data, it did not include the readiness metric. So, I went into Apple Health, tapped on my little icon up there, did a full export, which was very big. It was like 6 GB or something and I did a scan of the XML file that it output and there was no readiness data in that entire file. So, it seems like the readiness score is isolated to Apple Health with no historical data. Now, when it comes to the new Apple Health app, which is the app in the middle here, I do like it quite a bit. Like I said, this is the latest beta version of the app and they did turn on a couple of new features that weren't in the previous beta version that you may have seen in some of my videos. For example, now we do have that insights the top there. So, it tells me I went to bed early. You fell asleep around 9:53 p.m. That's about an hour and a half earlier than usual. Yeah, I go to bed late apparently. But in general, this app is just so much prettier to look at. The data and all of the historical metrics are shown really nicely. The front screen actually feels like a consumer app and less like a repository of information, which was the previous Apple Health. We've got my sleep score here and all the data around it. And it's nice that it's all in one place now, including your activity data, which previously would be in the fitness app on your phone. And it makes me wonder what the fitness app will actually include down the road since they're lumping everything into the Apple Health app. You also get Apple intelligence features here on the heart page. And if we jump over to the longevity tab here, which is a new page in Apple Health that sort of shows you how all of the different factors of your lifestyle roll into your longevity. There's also a little blurb here from Apple Intelligence. And of course, we get the health age feature here as well telling me that I'm biomechanically 8 and a half years younger than my actual age, which I will take every minute of. But down here, another Apple intelligence blurb has been added. Protect how well you're aging. Your body is sending youthful signals. Your healthy habits are building lasting momentum to keep younger longer. And down here we do get a graph of my health age history over time and all the factors that rolled into that negative score which tells me I'm younger than I actually am. All right, friends. That's it for this one. Just a quick one sharing my experience so far. I'll check in again down the road with more data, more comparisons. If you're interested, let me know in the comments down below. And while you're down there commenting, also let me know your experience with the new readiness score. Do you have a new Apple Watch? Have you been tracking your readiness? What does it look like? comment down below. Let me know. Let us all know. And after you're done commenting, don't forget to click that thumbs up button and subscribe to the channel down below. That really helps me out. And after you do that, check out the links in the description down below where I'll have all the products that I showed in this video listed. Those also help me out and they cost nothing extra to you. 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