How to use Workout Buddy with Apple Watch and iOS 26

Apple’s iOS 26 and watchOS 26 introduced a new fitness companion called Workout Buddy. This feature uses Apple Intelligence to provide spoken feedback during workouts and give motivation based on yo [...]

watchOS 26 preview: It's the little things

At WWDC 2025, Apple announced it was replacing the sequential numbering for OS versions and with year numbers. So instead of watchOS 12, I’ve spent the past two weeks with the public beta of watchOS [...]

How to use the AirPods Pro 3’s heart rate tracking feature

Your AirPods may soon become your most important pieces of fitness gear. One of the AirPods Pro 3’s new features is heart rate tracking for both workouts and periodic pulse checks. Apple’s latest [...]

The best wireless workout headphones for 2025

Regardless of what kind of exercise you’re into, if you’re working out, you’ll want a pair of wireless workout headphones. They allow you to be free and untethered during a serious weight-liftin [...]

Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 review: Incrementally better than its predecessor...again

We called 2023’s Galaxy Watch 6 a “modest upgrade” from the Galaxy Watch 5, which itself also got described as “very similar” to its predecessor, the Watch 4. So it’s perhaps not surprisin [...]

Pixel Watch 4 review: A well-rounded smartwatch with a surprising advantage

Everyone uses smartwatches differently. There are the people who wear them all day, those who only wear them when they’re outside, those who only use them while working out and even those who only w [...]

The best cheap fitness trackers for 2025

You may have just set new fitness goals for yourself but you’re unsure how to go about achieving them. Modern wearables have made it pretty easy to keep track of things like your daily step count, h [...]

The 6 best Mint alternatives to replace the budgeting app that shut down

It's been almost one year since Intuit shut down the popular budgeting app Mint. I was a Mint user for many years; millions of other users like me enjoyed how easily Mint allowed us to track all [...]

Apple Watch Series 11 review: A reliable wearable for when it matters most

The tenth generation of the Apple Watch came and went without much fanfare last year, and the arrival of the Series 11 is similarly subdued. Not much appears to have changed with Apple’s smartwatch, [...]