Apple Watch Series 11 needs to catch up with the Galaxy Watch in one important area
I’m approaching the end of the first month Galaxy Watch 8 and Galaxy Watch 8 Classicand for the first time in almost ten years of reviewing wearables, I Apple Watch. That hesitation comes down to an astonishing new addition: Gemini With a watch.
Samsung’s latest watch was the first to debut with Google’s Gemini AI assistant, and the experience left a lasting impression. Gemini is not just more conversational than their previous voice assistants. Smartwatch. With the Apple Watch season approaching, it’s hard to ignore how behind Siri is in comparison.
If you can only ask for one this year (OK, two, battery life is still important), here is: Give your Apple Watch a assistant who finally lives in the rest of the Apple ecosystem. It feels like an opportunity that has been missed so much after seeing what Gemini can do.
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Gemini on the wrist: Amazing life-changing
I had to consciously retrain myself to speak like a normal person when using Gemini, so I had to be reminded to use my wrist rather than breaking my phone due to random enquiries that fell into deaf ears. But when I do it, it felt like I would unleash a new layer of productivity that I didn’t know was possible on a small screen.
I gave up on my wrist-based voice assistant. Siri, Bixby (the Samsung version), and even the older watch Google Assistant often felt like clunky intermediaries. I had to repeat the command, talk in the robot syntax, and deal with web links that were not open in the clock UI. Asking my assistant to set a timer to something as specific as a soft-boiled egg, it took several steps. Do you want to use the assistant to change settings? Forget it. But Gemini looked back on it for me.
Google’s Gemini AI Voice Assistant 8 for Galaxy Watch 8.
Now I can say, “Set egg timer with egg yolk running soft egg timer.” You can ask to explode the volume of the watch Running Without touching the screen. Alternatively, you can ask about a landmark with vague prompts such as “What is the famous church on the hills of San Francisco?” The result was an accurate and audible direction to Grace Cathedral.
Gemini handles multitasking with ease. I found a trendy Latin fusion restaurant in San Francisco and asked my friend (in Spanish) to see if he was free to join. The watch did all of that at once.
It’s time for Apple to catch up
Apple has made progress Watchos 26. new Training Buddy Features You can get a glimpse into what AI looks like on your wrist, using real-time fitness data to promote mid-workouts. And the new translation feature provides live text translation for the watch. Apple Intelligence enabled phones.
Watchos 26 brings the Apple Intelligence Powered Workout Buddy to your Apple Watch, but you need to make your iPhone work.
However, Siri’s long-standing weaknesses still have nothing to address. There is slow response, minimal context, and practically no follow-through. And that’s not that Apple isn’t aware of it. The company has confirmed it is working on smarter Siri, but its update is reportedly delayed until 2026. Meanwhile, Apple’s current AI efforts show promises such as image editing, Genmoji, and Tapping ChatGpt. But they’re all iPhone first and so far, when it comes to Apple Intelligence, it doesn’t look like Gemini is designed to change the watch the way Android already has.
I’m not expecting any miracles from the Apple Watch Series 11, but there’s an opportunity here. When Apple upgrades its watch processor to better handle tasks on the device, it can pave the way for a more responsive Gemini-like assistant that actually belongs to the wrist.