What would you like in the next watchOS?

I just got my first ever apple watch a couple of months ago: an apple watch ultra. On the whole, I love it, but with VO, the workouts app is a pain to navigate. This is only because no matter what I do, VO constantly focuses on music controls. I think it would be very nice if there was an option in settings to remove music controls from the workouts app. Maybe I'm the exception to the rule, but I control music using a button on my headphones when I'm working out, and especially the way it functions now, being forced to contend with music controls when I'm trying to review info pertaining to an ongoing workout on my watch is incredibly frustrating. I've done everything I can think of to make it impossible for music controls to appear on the watch, but nothing works, so if anyone knows of a pre-existing work-around for this, I'd love to hear about it. Otherwise, I'm really hoping that at the very least, Apple fixes things so that vo won't automatically focus on music instead of more relevant parts of the workout apps screen. I've actually tried to report this as a potential bug to Apple Accessibility, but I don't feel as though the representative I was working with understood the issue.

I probably don't use a fraction of what my watch can do. I would like to see voice parody between all of Apple's platforms. Eloquence on my phone? I want to use it on my watch too. same thing for those other TTS apps that can integrate with iOS for people who prefer them. I'm one of those people who doesn't like using different TTS for different devices if I have the choice. lol

The other thing I want to see is more music management options. I've googled and can't figure out if I can do what I want. Basically I want my watch to be what my 4th gen iPod nano used to be -- let me have a subset of my music library on it without having to think about it too much. I've read in a few places that roughly 1/4 of the watch's storage can be used for media, so with the newer ones that would be around 8GB. So I want to be able to have my phone copy 8GB of music to my watch when it's charging without having to manually copy albums over. So kind of like what you used to be able to do with smart playlists in iTunes. Right now I have my phone set up to copy music that I've recently listened to onto my watch, but it only copy's around a gig.

1, having individual ring tones, sound notifications, music. The samsung watches have all that. Apple talk about innovation but my cat is more than apple.

I would love it if the custom alert tones and ring tones I've set up in my phone could work on the watch as well. These days, I just keep my phone on mute since the majority of important alerts come to the watch now. I honestly don't understand why the ring tones or alert sounds we've purchased can't be transfered over to the watch. I'd still much rather have the music controls go away from the workout app, or at least for VO to be less obsessed with focusing on them, but if that can't happen, I wish that Apple would at least let us have our custom ring tones.

Samsung watches have that and they are not that great. Picture this, apple using the sane as samsung. Each call will have their own tone and notification also.

Siobhan, I have never seen the 'Apple made Alex so I'm supporting them' take on Alex before but actually I like that argument. I won't go down that route myself because Alex is American and I prefer my iPhone to speak with an english accent (note English, not British, please) as I prefer it to match my locality. however, were Apple ever to make Alex speak as though he were from, say, Yorkshire, I would be very keen to use him.

now, to the question itself, to which my answer is very simple and boring: I just want the three-finger double tap to turn speech off! I know I know - there'll be people coming on the radio in a minute saying: it works for me, no issues here, I've been able to do this since 1954 etc. but it doesn't work for me, nor has it ever done so. it would be really handy to ensure total silence from time to time.

There you go. Told you it would be boring.

I am using Nathan for my watch. Did not use Alex because do not care for him. I had use him in the past many times in my phone but I kept going back to Tom. My iPad 9 has tom also.

I thought that said Tom Alsop for a moment there! he's a fine young cricketer who scored a lot of runs for Sussex last summer and who could play for England one day if he continues to improve; but he isn't a voice option in IOS or Watch OS. If he were, however, I would be more likely to use him than I would be to use Alex for the localisation reasons given above.

Another thing I do wish, incidentally: I wish i could tell the time while swimming. Can't get that to work.

Apple recently (IOS 16.1) add this feature under:

"Accessibility- Siri- Announce Notifications on Speaker"

Please add this feature to Watch OS for those with low vision or dexterity issues.

Currently, Apple supports the speaking of the Time-of-day with two fingers on a watch face

Maybe the ability to customize VO gestures on the watch? I can do the three-finger double/triple taps to turn speech and screen curtain on and off, but it's tricky. Then again, I have the larger size watch. I assume this would be even easier with the ultra.

No matter what I do during a workout, focus jumps to page 3, the audio playback page, even though I have nothing playing. It's annoying! I'd also like to be able to use my custom ringtones and alert tones. Especially the alert tones for texts.

Since you're able to mirror your watch from your iPhone, I do not comprehend why we are not able to have custom ringtones, text tones, matching voiceover voices between devices, etc. This is just common sense, but I guess Apple doesn't use that? Lol I would also like to get rid of the music controls inside the workout app. For those who haven't discovered this, however, when you open up an active workout, it will either be focused on page 2 or page 3. I am a left-handed watch wearer, so if I swipe to the right, then I find the picker item,then I can swipe up or down to get to the page that I need to see. You can also do the three finger swipe up and down, but I find that, on my very old Apple Watch Series 3, swiping to the picker item to change pages seems to be faster and more effective. here's hoping that these very simple requests will actually happen soon.

Honestly all I want is for the time to be announced when I tap my watch once. It used to do that, now I have to hunt around and tap the time once or twice to hear it.