The new feature launches with four stories.
Another story arrives each week
Draymond Green, Shawn Mendes among first hosts
If you re an Apple Watch and Apple Fitness+ customer, you re walking experiences are about to change thanks to Time to Walk. The feature includes audio content from influential and interest people who share stories, photos, and music. It works with Apple Watch and AirPods, or other Bluetooth headphones. Time to Walk launches with four audio experiences, with many more expected to arrive in the coming weeks and months.
Episodes of Time to Walk are between 25 to 40 minutes in length and appear automatically in the Workout app on Apple Watch. You can also browse the available episodes in the Fitness+ tab in the Fitness app on your iPhone. For wheelchair customers, Time to Walk becomes Time to Push and automatically starts an Outdoor Wheelchair Walk Pace workout.
Sometimes having a workout buddy can really help your fitness goals, especially if your workout buddy is a celebrity.
On Monday, Apple launched a new experience for the Apple Watch called Time to Walk. This new audio experience is available to Fitness+ subscribers and encourages users to walk more by offering immersive stories, photos, and music from celebrities and interesting people that can serve as motivation to get up and get moving. AppleFitness Time to Walk on Apple Watch faces
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The first episodes, all available on the Workout app, of these audio stories are from country music star Dolly Parton, NBA player Draymond Green, musician Shawn Mendes, and Emmy Award winner Uzo Aduba. While you listen to their fascinating stories, all ranging between 20 and 40 minutes, the app tracks your pace and steps.
A new walking experience featuring celebrity guests recounting part of their life story has been added to Apple Watch for users of Apple Fitness+.
Apple has launched a new workout for Apple Watch, a weekly exclusive for users who also subscribe to Apple Fitness+. Time to Walk is a series of audio episodes in which a guest celebrity talks for between 25 to 40 minutes as users walk. Walking is the most popular physical activity in the world, and one of the healthiest things we can do for our bodies, said Jay Blahnik, Apple s senior director of Fitness Technologies, in a statement. A walk can often be more than just exercise: It can help clear the mind, solve a problem, or welcome a new perspective.
Apple’s new Fitness+ feature brings celebrity-guided walks to your wrist
Here’s a bit of a curve ball from Apple. A month-and-a-half or so after launching the Fitness+ app premium workout service, the company’s offering up an add-on intended to offer an exercise dimension beyond the confines of iOS (and your living room). Arriving today for Fitness+ subscribers, Time to Walk is a new, guided walking tour hosted by a rotating cast of celebrity guests.
It’s a pretty diverse cast, as evidenced by the first round of names, which are dropping via a software update today. Included in the first five are Dolly Parton who is probably about as universally beloved a celebrity as exists in 2021 and Warriors power forward Draymond Green, who is no doubt less universal, because, well, sports. Also included in the first round are musician Shawn Mendes and “Orange Is the New Black” star Uzo Aduba.
Apple launches audio walking experience to encourage exercise
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Apple has unveiled a new audio-based fitness feature, narrated by celebrities, which is designed to encourage more people to go out for a walk.
The tech giant has launched Time to Walk, which uses stories and playlists from famous guests including Dolly Parton and Shawn Mendes to help promote regular exercise.
The new feature has been added to the firm’s Apple Fitness+ subscription-based workout service, which is linked to the Apple Watch.
The first four episodes of the new experience – which feature Parton, Mendes, NBA player Draymond Green and Emmy Award-winning actress Uzo Aduba – have been released to mark its rollout, with more content to follow every Monday until the end of April.