Apple’s launch candidate for watchOS 11.4 got here out right now, offering an early take a look at some new options coming to the Apple Watch within the subsequent few weeks. The OS replace has some bug fixes, however extra notably, it makes a change to the Apple Watch’s Silent Mode, permitting alarms to be heard whereas the whole lot else is silenced.
Currently, with Silent Mode activated, the Apple Watch solely delivers alerts to customers by haptic vibrations. It helps preserve notifications personal, reduces distractions, and prevents the watch from making noise at inopportune instances, like while you’re in a gathering.
The notes for the watchOS 11.4 launch candidate describe the brand new function as “an possibility to permit Sleep Wake Up alarm to interrupt by Silent Mode.” Each particular person alarm, together with the one set within the Apple Watch’s sleep settings for waking up within the morning, could have a brand new choice to “Break Through Silent Mode.” With it on, sounds and haptic vibrations will each play when an alarm goes off, in line with 9to5Mac.
The change appears counterintuitive to Silent Mode, however even with the Apple Watch’s haptics set to Prominent, the best potential depth, I nonetheless regularly discover myself sleeping by the vibrations of an alarm I’ve set. I refuse to show Silent Mode off, which implies I simply don’t use my Apple Watch for any vital alarms, however that would quickly change.
