Squall · Apple Watch

The Watch, page by page.

Laid out like Apple’s Workout app, so it already feels familiar: controls on the left, the run in the middle, music on the right, and more detail a turn of the crown away. Pace and how far off target you are stay in view on every page.

The Watch is optional. Your iPhone records the run and talks you through it on its own; the Watch adds heart rate, and the session on your wrist.

01 · The main page

On a rep, the whole face is the zone.

Pace now, big enough to read mid-stride. Below it, the pace line: the target is the centre tick and you’re the dot. Left of the tick is behind, right is ahead.

Ahead / behind: In seconds per km against the rep's target, with the target beside it.
Top line: Which rep of how many, its zone, and distance so far.
Session bar: The whole session along the bottom: warm-up, every rep in its zone colour, recoveries and cool-down.

Squall on Apple Watch: rep 3 of 4 in zone 4, 3.24 km, pace 5:22 per km, the runner's dot left of the target tick on the pace line, 34 seconds per km behind, target 4:48, and the session bar in zone colours. — Interval rep · test build

02 · Recovery

Between reps, it goes calm.

When a rep ends the face switches to recovery by itself: cobalt, with a lime ring running down around the time left.

Last rep: How it went, in one line: on pace, ahead or behind.
Next rep: Spelled out before it starts: which rep, how far, at what pace.

Squall on Apple Watch: a cobalt recovery face, a lime ring running down around 1:41, 3.24 km, rep 2 on pace, and next: rep 3 of 4, 1 km at 4:48 per km. — Recovery · test build

03 · Steady runs

You against your goal pace.

Long and easy runs swap the pace line for a lane: a dashed runner holding your goal pace, and you as the dot.

The gap: In metres: how far ahead or behind a runner who has held your goal pace since the start.
Finish: Your time so far plus the distance left at goal pace.
Heart rate: On the bottom line, beside the projected finish.

Squall on Apple Watch: a long run on a zone 2 green face: 11.2 of 18 km, pace 5:41 per km, a lane with a dashed goal-pace runner and you as the dot, 41 m ahead of a 5:45 goal, finish about 1:43:16, heart rate 154. — Long run · test build

04 · Turn the crown

More detail, one turn away.

The main page stays simple. Turn the Digital Crown for the numbers behind it, each page in the colour of the zone you’re in.

Squall on Apple Watch: the gap page on zone 4: 34 seconds behind, large, over the pace line, with target 4:48, pace 5:22 and average 5:46. — Gap · test build

Squall on Apple Watch: the run-so-far page: 18:42 elapsed, 3.24 km, average 5:46 per km. — Run so far · test build

Gap: How far off target you are, large, with target, pace now and average pace underneath.
Heart rate: Your heart rate and its zone, time in each zone, and what's next in the session. The page fills with your heart rate's zone colour.
Run so far: Elapsed time, distance and average pace.

05 · Left and right

Controls on the left. Music on the right.

Swipe right for the controls. Pace and how far off target you are stay across the top, so you never lose the run.

Pause · End: Stop for a moment, or finish the run.
Skip: Move on to the next step of the session.
Voice: Turn the spoken cues on or off.
Lock: Water lock, for rain and sweat.
Music: Swipe left for Apple's own Now Playing. Squall's voice cues lower the music while they speak, then bring it back.

Squall on Apple Watch: the controls page: pace 5:22 and 34 seconds behind across the top, then Pause, End, Skip, Voice on, Lock and Settings. — Controls · test build

About these screens

These are captures from a Squall test build on the Apple Watch simulator, with sample training data; the time in the corner is the simulator’s. The Watch app is in testing and may still change before release.

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