Apple Fitness+ is coming to iPhone

October 20, 2022

It doesn't get the most attention, but lots of people love Apple Fitness+, the subscription workout service tied to Apple Watch.

Staffers at Cult of Mac towers often sneak a quick stretching session or workout using the service, which now offers more than 3,000 on-demand classes to stream.

Hoping to fix Fitness+'s below-the-radar profile, Apple will expand the program to more users at the end of the month.

When iOS 16.1 launches on October 24, Fitness+ will become part of the iPhone Fitness app, and will no longer require an Apple Watch to work out.

Apple's adding lots of other incentives too, including new classes, more Time to Walk sessions, and workouts and fitness playlists dedicated to Taylor Swift.

I'll skip that -- but the new "Totally ’80s Cycling" classes sound right up my alley.

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

Apple Fitness+ will finally become available to iPhone users starting next week. The subscription service, which offers an array of recorded workouts for a wide range of health levels, previously focused on Apple Watch. The expansion to iOS handsets is not the only move in the works to make Apple Fitness+ more mainstream. Music by Taylor Swift is also coming to Fitness+, with workouts focused on the artist’s new album, Midnight.

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With Apple’s top-shelf AirPods Max over-ear active noise cancelling (ANC) wireless headphones due for a refresh, competitors keep coming with hot new products. High-end audio maker KEF jumped into the market for the first time this week with its KEF Mu7 headphones, not long after venerable brand Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) rolled out its newest flagship, the PX8.

On October 20, 2009, Apple goes big with its fall 2009 iMac redesign, introducing the world to its first 27-inch display in a unibody iMac.

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