Gurman: Apple will announce a new Watch ‘Readiness’ app at Surprise and Shine
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple plans to unveil a Readiness app — a Vitals variant aimed at Whoop- and Oura-style recovery scoring — alongside Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 on Wednesday.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple plans to announce an all-new Readiness app during Wednesday’s “Surprise and shine” event, according to a MacRumors report summarizing a social post he published Tuesday.
What Gurman is claiming
Gurman described Readiness as a variant of the existing Vitals app on Apple Watch. The goal, he said, is to better compete with recovery-focused software from Whoop and Oura — products known for daily readiness-style scores that estimate how prepared your body is for activity.
Vitals (introduced with watchOS 11) already consolidates overnight metrics such as heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, wrist temperature, and sleep duration. A Readiness layer would likely turn similar inputs into a recovery-oriented view rather than a raw vitals dashboard.
How this relates to earlier code signals
This is a confirmation-of-intent update, not the first sighting of the feature name. near Workout in Home Screen logic. Gurman’s Tuesday note adds the claim that Apple will , alongside and .
