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Apple Watch Workouts Have a Great New Feature
Setting alerts for heart rate is a big one for me
Aaargh! I don’t know when these features were added — it may have been in WatchOS 9.0, and I had my mind on other things at the time. Adding to that is that I already have my workouts set to what I want — or at least to what I wanted and that Apple gave me a way to set!
It doesn’t matter because I did notice them today, and although I have a minor complaint about the interface, these features are a welcome addition.
My gripe first
You may already know that to edit Workout goals, you click the three dots at top right:
That’s still the same, but what you see next is quite different.
Wouldn’t you think that brightly colored pencil is what you’d click to start editing? Of course, and it is. But what’s the dimmed pencil below it for? It seems that it might be a clumsy way to…