watchOS 11 and WWDC 2024: Digging into must-have activity rings on Apple Watch

In the midst of extravagant tech events like Apple's ongoing Worldwide Developers Conference, it's always good to see people struck with a flood of dopamine in their brains, simply because they finally come across something which would oversee their physical well-being while extending an abundance of features found rarely on the market.

As feature announcements of mediocre calibre make it to capture only the ground, the activity rings feature slated to come under the hood of watchOS 11 is something which captured all, the ground, the attic, and the eyeballs.

Pause activity rings on Apple Watch

What validates the non-AI segment's elevated traction at the WWDC 2024 is a tiny feature of watchOS 11: activity rings. The feature has long remained in high demand from the prolific Apple Watch wearers as well as other tech enthusiasts of other wearable gadgets from various other brands. 

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The feature would prove enormously helpful for those having health issues, as it offers the ability to pause activity rings. This insignificant feature may not hold any importance in the eyes of many, but for a struggling being, it's no less than an oasis in a desert.

The triviality of the feature, too, can be justified in the case of those having little to no use of it, but being obsessed about it to an abnormal degree.

Nevertheless, the feature on watchOS 11 is going to be the best Apple Watch update in a long time for a specific group of Apple Watch users. If a user is under the weather or down because of some other reasons, they can pause the progress of the activity rings from the Apple Watch on their wrist or through a connected iPhone app.

The feature offers much more than just existing, as users have options to pause it for one day, by day of the week or for entire months at a time. And fortunately, the metrics will keep getting collected regardless of the pause. Even if users fail to reach the number that would normally close your ring, their streak will remain intact.