Fitness for Kids

For the most part, the Apple Watch has been targeted at adult users, but it looks like that’s set to change in watchOS 7, which will add a plethora of new features for kids, including new kid-focused fitness features that will encourage them to exercise with unique activity challenges and metrics more appropriate for young bodies.

This would include simplified rings in the Activity app to track daily activity levels, with the ability for parents to monitor them as well as swapping out parameters that aren’t relevant to their kids’ fitness goals, such as replacing calories burned with distance or active minutes.

It might also become possible to sync watches for multiple users to a single iPhone, allowing parents to give their kids an Apple Watch without necessarily needing them to have their own iPhones. Apple could also allow kids to pair their Apple Watch with an iPod touch or iPad. A new Schooltime feature would also bring Screen Time parental controls to the wearable, so that parents could lock down the watch during certain times of the day, as well as placing restrictions on who their child can communicate with.