Redline: Sprint Timer

Cues that keep working when the phone stops paying attention. NOTHING GOES QUIET Turning voice cues off used to leave a locked phone with no cue at all: no sound, no tap, no notification. Now the transitions arrive as notifications instead, and Settings says so. Those notifications are also properly time sensitive, so a Fitness Focus no longer silences them, and they show while you are looking at the screen. IF iOS TAKES THE APP AWAY When iOS reclaims the app mid-session, the queued cues are what carry the rest of your workout. Opening the app back up used to delete them. It no longer does. And coming back after a gap no longer replays everything you slept through in one burst of contradictory instructions; you get the one cue that is actually current. ON THE WATCH A call or a Siri invocation used to kill the voice cues for the rest of the session with no way back. Starting a session used to stop music playing from the Watch itself and never bring it back. Both fixed. If the workout session fails to start, the app now tells you instead of quietly dying at the first wrist down. And the phone's voice and Apple Health switches finally apply on the wrist, which is what the privacy policy always said. HONEST NUMBERS Pausing no longer counts as exercise, in the session total or in Health, and a paused sprint is no longer written to Health as one long interval. The sprint ticks on the Lock Screen and in the app now agree with each other. SMALL THINGS You can end a session from a paused sprint on the phone, and the Watch says how. The lead-in says "Sprint starts on GO" rather than promising a beep that never existed. Settings toggles have VoiceOver labels.