New · Blackbird Auto · in testing

Play. Your Watch keeps the shots.

When a disc leaves your hand, your Apple Watch feels it, buzzes, and puts the spot on your round. The next throw says where the last one landed. You just play.

Blackbird on iPhone at Peninsula Park, hole 3: the drive heard from the tee, the line to where it landed, 22 feet left for the putt, and your score's guess from your Watch, tap to take.

Apple Watch Ultra on hole 7: 212 feet to the basket, a Teebird for it, and Auto, one throw.

Nobody sees a disc land. But you always throw from where it stopped.

The drive

Heard from the tee. You walk to your disc and throw again, so the next spot is where the drive came to rest.

The line

A straight line from spot to spot: how far each throw got you, not the hyzer it flew. It never claims more than it knows.

The last one

It goes in when the hole is on your card. Standing near a basket is never enough.

On every throw

It feels it, places it, keeps it.

It feels the throw.

Through a round's workout, your Watch reads how fast your wrist turns and how hard your arm pushes, up to 200 times a second. A drive is a short, hard burst. A putt is a smaller push out of stillness. Walking and reaching into your bag aren't throws.

It knows where you stood.

Not the last GPS reading, which comes late and drifts, but the seconds around the throw, when you stood at your lie. Where GPS was unsure, the map shows how unsure.

It puts it on your round.

One buzz, and the spot is on the hole on your iPhone, as if you'd marked it yourself. Your iPhone can stay in your bag: the Watch keeps what it heard until they meet.

A throw, as your wrist feels it · illustrationHow fast the wrist turns

On your iPhone

The hole fills in as you play.

Every throw your Watch hears lands on the 3D hole, with your throw count and the distance each one got you. Your score is a guess you take with a tap. A missed putt nobody heard isn't counted, so the card stays yours.

On the mapEach spot it heard, and a faint circle wherever GPS was unsure.
Your score“From your Watch · tap to take.” Penalties included.
Your statsPutting, approaches and throws gained, from rounds you just played.

Blackbird on iPhone, hole 3: the drive heard from the tee and drawn to where it landed, 22 feet to the basket with the Aviar, and your score of 2 from your Watch, tap to take.

When it's wrong

One tap. And nothing when it's right.

Swipe to the Auto page only when you need it. It knows the rules it can't feel, so your map and your score stay honest.

Missed oneA throw it didn't hear, added where you stand.
Not a throwIt buzzed for nothing. The last one comes off.
OB · Re-throw · ReliefSaid before the next throw, so it isn't taken for where the last one landed. The stroke goes on your score.
PauseA practice throw between holes, not counted.

Apple Watch Ultra, the Auto page on hole 7: two throws, the last heard three seconds ago, Missed one and Not a throw.

Apple Watch Ultra, before the next throw: OB, plus one, set. Re-throw, relief and penalty beside it.

Between holes

It follows you to the next tee.

Walk up to the next tee with the hole done and your Watch offers it with a tap on the wrist. Throw a drive from there and it moves on by itself, so every throw lands on the hole you threw it on.

It never moves on because you're near a basket. Next tees often sit right beside one, and putts happen there.

Apple Watch Ultra: done with hole 7, five throws, and At 8's tee, go.

Made for your arm

It learns the way you throw.

Throw a few in a field and tap what each one was. Blackbird tunes itself to your arm, from your own throws, on your own Watch, and shows you what changed before you keep it.

Label a sessionBackhand, forehand, putt, or what you did instead: a practice swing, the bag, a walk.
See the differenceThrows heard, putts heard and false ones, before and after.
Your arm, your WatchKept for the wrist you wear it on. Start over any time.

Apple Watch Ultra, a field session twelve minutes in: seven heard, saved as a backhand, and the throws to label.

Apple Watch Ultra: tune to your throws? Throws heard 14 of 20 to 19 of 20, putts 6 of 10 to 9 of 10, false ones 5 of 12 to 1 of 12. Keep it.

Already on your wrist

And the rest, without taking out your phone.

Start a round on your iPhone and your Watch follows it.

Apple Watch Ultra on hole 7: 212 feet to the basket, a Teebird with hyzer at 80%, Dani tees first.

Apple Watch

Questions

Is it ready?

Blackbird Auto is new, and in testing now with our TestFlight group. It hears throws with a rule of thumb that it tunes to each player, and every session our testers record makes it better. Get early access and you can try it.

Which Apple Watch?

Any Apple Watch that runs watchOS 10 or later. On Series 8, Ultra and newer it reads your wrist 200 times a second during a round; earlier Watches read it 100 times a second.

Which wrist?

It hears best on the arm you throw with. Most people wear their Watch on the other arm, and it still feels your body turn and your other arm swing; tuning it to your throws helps either way.

Does it change my score?

Never on its own. The throws it heard are a guess you take with a tap, because a missed putt nobody heard, or a penalty, would make it wrong. The card is yours.

Does my iPhone need to be with me?

No. Your Watch hears your throws and knows where you were on its own. What it heard reaches your round when your iPhone is near again.

Where does my data go?

Your throws stay on your iPhone with your round. The motion of your wrist stays on your Watch, unless you record a session to help us test and choose to share it.