Apple

The ability to use the NFC function outside of Apple Pay for NFC tags around the house

More standalone apps

In addition that all that the series 9 has, blood pressure. That's really it.

I'd like the idea of being able to charge the watch while still wearing it. Like how Whoop does it. Yes, I do understand there could be potential consequences.

Blood 🩸 Glucose monitor

Am I missing something with all the requests for 24 H HR ?? It's definitely doing that and will alert you if you go over a HR you set. I use that a lot. Maybe it's more of a full reporting of HR?

Teleportation

I’d love to see a smaller Ultra model. Additionally, on S9 and earlier models, allow developer more customization of the existing buttons.

Battery life. Auto exercise recognition.

Blood pressure

more battery

• custom , per notification type vibration strength and pattern
• empty watch face with no time, just for complications
• 100 percent programable buttons so we can all individually decide what pressing (or double pressing) of button does

For the red screen on the AW Ultra to be applied system-wide (It's kind of dumb that it's only on the watch face but if you get a notification bam here you go full colors and brightness).

The ability to allow for more readings (specifically HR).

Custom watch faces (I know that there are apps that you can kind of use, but they're not legit watch faces).

A sports mode that would prioritize readings and reduce performance of the watch to increase battery life (I don't like/want to use the battery saving mode because it basically reduces the readings).

Probably a pipe dream but my most wanted feature is blood glucose monitoring.

Realtime wind speed and integration with third party apps for complications.

Siri that doesn’t suck. Often when running it has poor understanding of what I’m saying. Even when in a silent room sending HomeKit command it has a hard time udner

I would love a temperature sensor that takes ambient heat in the surroundings into account for calorie burning and reporting (as it would be neat) for my hot yoga and heated HIIT classes.

Mine are more about current Apple technologies that making my apple watch less useful:

• Siri is just plain dumb- in 2023, it is still easier to do things manually than to get Siri to do most things (the few features I use in carplay seem ok). I know Apple's working hard on making Siri competitive with GPT and other such machine learning systems, so this one may come true. I want to use my watch to control everything with my voice, conversationally, wherever I am
• A Walkie Talkie where I can successfully invite my wife... the invites go to some apple pocket universe, even homekit has some bizarro issue with her Apple account and nothing I've tried has made any difference.
• Truly User-Customizable watch faces... I don't want to have to install a third party app or learn watch OS development (which I could do, but come on!) to make a cool watch face on a whim... a set of templates and the ability to embed images and video, can't be that hard to create for dev teams of Apple's caliber? A watch, is in its very nature, a fashion item- don't hold back self-expression for the sake of "creative control", Apple.

Running with my cellular watch while listening to music, receive phone call, answer phone call by pressing green button on watch, switch music to phone call. That's all I need.

Rest days, performance metrics and a performance service (dreaming on the last one)

A battery that gets through the day and doesn’t shit the bed every time I update the OS.

Automatic exercise detection and commencement. I swear my Fitbit was better at recognising and just recording, I’d like the Apple Watch to do the same instead of prompting me.

Auto detect sleep mode. Better school mode with a digital clock. Interactable web browser.

Anything related to health. how is the interface so
ugly and pointless 😭

Tell me the charging status of my phone.

• Ability to connect to car Bluetooth or even CarPlay
• Features and functionality in general that allow me to simply leave my phone at home.
• True all day battery even when putting the watch through a workout, the above in-car connectivity, phone calls, etc.
• Blood pressure monitoring

Alcohol / DUI test.

A Home widget for the Smart Stack… a Workout widget that looks decent or has at least the icon. Non redundant Timer/Stopwatch widgets. (You start either and you get it running on the widget itself but also ANOTHER unnecessary widget at the top of the stack…)

Custom themes

Yearly stats

Longer battery

I want a damn built in weight app.

I want a battery life that lasts at least a week before needing a recharge. That’s it. I don’t give a crap about anything else. IMO, if they made an Apple Watch without any of the health/fitness crap, I’d just buy that one. I just want a watch to tell time and quickly check info/notifications/siri.

I can not for the life of me understand why I can't check my phone's battery % from my watch without the aid of a third-party app.

I just need the Sunrise/sunset indicator back after it was removed for no reason 😭😭😭

I just want my shazam complication on the info modular face haihh regretted updating to watchos10

Recommended workouts based on fitness and route creation for running

An actual stress score/ BodyBattery-like function. The available 3rd party ones are terribly unreliable. The only reason I keep looking at Garmins… OK, maybe I’m jealous at the battery life too…

Make it round like a watch.

Let it use the sound/ringtones that are on the phone. I have custom ringtones for my commonly used contacts, but I don’t get to hear them with the watch on!

Better battery