Apple Watch Series 1 and Series 2 will not update to watchOS 7
By <https://9to5mac.com/author/apollozac/> Zac Hall
Apple has previewed watchOS 7 ahead of its release later this year, but two
Apple Watch models running watchOS 6 won't receive the software update.
Apple Watch Series 1 and Apple Watch Series 2 will stop receiving major
software updates with watchOS 6.
Before watchOS 7, Apple only dropped software support for the original Apple
Watch. Apple Watch Series 1 replaced it in the lineup with a faster chip
alongside Apple Watch Series 2.
Starting with watchOS 7 later this year, these will be required for
significant software updates:
* Apple Watch Series 3
* Apple Watch Series 4
* Apple Watch Series 5
* .and later
watchOS 7 introduces support for built-in sleep tracking, dance workout
tracking, and much more.
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including dance, hand washing detection, more
By <https://9to5mac.com/author/apollozac/> Zac Hall
Apple is previewing watchOS 7, the new software update coming to Apple Watch
later this year. The update includes new watch faces, workout types, and
sleep tracking.
Here are some core changes in watchOS 7 for Apple Watch:
* Built-in sleep tracking with iPhone integration
* New workout types including Dance, Core Training, Functional
Strength Training, and Cool Down
* Activity app renamed Fitness
* Apple Maps now contains cycling routes in select cities
* Two new watch faces including a new Chronograph face with a
tachometer and an XL face
* Watch face sharing between Apple Watches
* Multiple complications per app for third-party apps
* Hand wash detection and countdown timers
watchOS 7 will be available to developers starting today. The first-ever
watchOS public beta will be available in July.
watchOS 7 adds significant personalization, health, and fitness features to
Apple Watch
PRESS RELEASE June 22, 2020
Introducing watch face sharing, sleep tracking, and automatic handwashing
detection
watchOS 7 brings new personalization, health, and fitness features to Apple
Watch this fall.
Cupertino, California - Apple today previewed
<http://apple.com/watchos/watchos-preview/> watchOS 7, delivering enhanced
customization tools and powerful new health and fitness features to the
world's most advanced smartwatch. Personalization is taken to an entirely
new level with shareable and discoverable watch face configurations, while
sleep tracking, automatic handwashing detection, additional workout types
including dance, and a new hearing health feature give greater insight into
overall well-being and are designed with privacy in mind. Conveniently on
the wrist, Maps is updated with cycling directions and Siri now offers
language translation.
"We're energized by the positive impact Apple Watch is having on our
customers and are excited to deliver meaningful new tools that support their
health, fitness, and wellness," said Jeff Williams, Apple's chief operating
officer. "watchOS 7 brings sleep tracking, automatic handwashing detection,
and new workout types together with a whole new way to discover and use
watch faces, helping our users stay healthy, active, and connected."
Watch Faces and Sharing
Faces are central to the watch experience, providing customers with valuable
information at a glance and the ability to personalize their Apple Watch.
watchOS 7 offers new ways to discover and share unique combinations to
completely configure the watch face to suit any activity or lifestyle, from
the new parent to the surfing aficionado, tennis player, or photographer.
Infinitely customizable and personalized faces, inclusive of complications,
can be shared through Messages or Mail, and discovered through the App Store
or even from links through websites and social media channels.
Customized watch faces can be downloaded from websites.
watchOS 7 offers updates to faces for more personalization and greater
access to favorite apps. The beautifully detailed and ultraprecise
Chronograph Pro includes a tachymeter to calculate speed based on time
traveled over a fixed distance, the Photos face offers color filters, and
the bold X-Large face now has an option to add a rich complication.
The Chronograph Pro face features an integrated tachymeter.
Developers now have the ability to offer more than one complication per app
on a single watch face. For example, on one watch face, Glow Baby can
display multiple complications that help new parents track bottle-feeding,
breastfeeding, pumping statistics, and nap times, while Dawn Patrol can show
surfers tide, wind speed, and water temperature from a favorite surf spot.
New parents can use Glow Baby to see nap, changing, and feeding times all on
one face.
Sleep
With watchOS 7, Apple Watch introduces sleep tracking, taking a holistic
approach to sleep by providing valuable tools to help users get the desired
amount of sleep, get to bed on time, and create a pre-bedtime routine to
meet their sleep goals. Through the detection of micro-movements from the
watch's accelerometer, which signals respiration during sleep, Apple Watch
intelligently captures when the wearer is sleeping and how much sleep they
get each night. In the morning, the wearer will see a visualization of their
previous night's sleep, including periods of wake and sleep. They will also
see a chart showing their weekly sleep trend.
The new sleep tracking feature takes a holistic approach to sleep.
According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a bedtime routine helps
the body prepare for sleep. To support this, Wind Down allows Apple Watch
and iPhone users to create a customized routine before bed, including
setting up a specific scene in the Home app, listening to a soothing
soundscape, or using a favorite meditation app. In Sleep Mode, Apple Watch
turns on Do Not Disturb and automatically darkens the screen overnight.
To help users wake up, Apple Watch offers a silent haptic alarm or gentle
sounds, while the wake-up screen shows the current battery level. Depending
on personal charging behavior, if the battery is too low within an hour of
bedtime, Apple Watch will remind users to charge it ahead of sleep. Sleep
data is encrypted on device or in iCloud with iCloud sync, and data is
always in the user's control.
Set a sleep-duration goal for the desired amount of sleep.
Automatic Handwashing Detection
Washing hands properly for at least 20 seconds can help prevent the spread
of illness. In a first-of-its-kind innovation for a wearable, Apple Watch
uses the motion sensors, microphone, and on-device machine learning to
automatically detect handwashing motions and sounds. It then initiates a
20-second countdown timer, and if the user finishes early, they will be
prompted to keep washing. Apple Watch can also conveniently remind the user
to wash their hands when they return home.
The Health app on iPhone will show frequency and duration of the user's
handwashing, as well as information on the importance of handwashing, as it
relates to overall health. Sounds used to detect handwashing are not
automatically recorded or saved by the Health app or Apple Watch.
Once automatically detected, handwashing will begin a 20-second timer.
Workout Types and Fitness App
The Workout app is one of the most popular apps on Apple Watch, and watchOS
7 brings four exciting new workout types supported by powerful heart rate
and custom-built motion algorithms: Core Training, Dance, Functional
Strength Training, and Cooldown.
To correctly capture calorie exertion for Dance, Apple Watch uses advanced
sensor fusion, combining data from the heart rate sensor and inputs from the
accelerometer and gyroscope, that accounts for the unique challenges of
measuring different body-to-arm motions typical with dance. This workout
type was validated and tested with four of the most popular dance styles for
exercise: Bollywood, cardio dance, hip-hop, and Latin.
Apple Watch now offers custom-built algorithms to track Dance, Functional
Strength Training, Core Training, and Cooldown.
The redesigned Activity app on iPhone, now called Fitness,provides a
streamlined view of data including
daily Activity, Workouts, Awards, and Activity Trends on one tab, and
Activity Sharing and Activity Competitions on another.
The Fitness app on iPhone has been completely redesigned to provide a more
streamlined view of Activity data.
Hearing
Following the introduction of the Noise app in watchOS 6 that measures
ambient sound levels and duration of exposure, watchOS 7 adds further
support for hearing health with headphone audio notifications. Customers can
now understand how loudly they are listening to media through their
headphones using their iPhone, iPod touch, or Apple Watch, and when these
levels may impact hearing over time.
When total listening with headphones has reached 100 percent of the safe
weekly listening amount, Apple Watch provides a notification to the wearer.
This amount is based on World Health Organization recommendations that, for
instance, a person can be exposed to 80 decibels for about 40 hours per week
without an impact to hearing abilities. Customers can also see how long
they have been exposed to high decibel levels each week in the Health app on
iPhone and can control the maximum level for headphone volume. No audio from
the headphone audio notification feature is recorded or saved by the Health
app or Apple Watch. watchOS 7 continues to support hearing health with new
headphone audio notifications.
Additional watchOS 7 Updates
* For optimal convenience while biking, cycling directions are
available right on the wrist. Directions are large and easy to read, and
Maps can direct when to dismount and walk the bike, or take the stairs to
save time. The wearer can choose a route that avoids steep hills, gets to
the destination the quickest, or takes the most direct path.
* Customers can now use Siri to translate many languages conveniently
from the wrist, dictation is handled on device with the power of the Apple
Neural Engine for faster and more reliable processing when dictating
messages and more, and Apple Watch now supports Announce Messages with Siri.
The Shortcuts app is also now available on Apple Watch and can be accessed
as a complication.
* Developers can create graphic complications with SwiftUI, and new
developer tools such as Xcode Previews make building them even easier.
* New complications for native features include: CameraRemote, Sleep,
and Shortcuts.
* New Mobility Metrics available in the Health app include: low-range
cardio fitness, walking speed, stair-descent speed, stair-ascent speed,
six-minute walk distance, double support time, step length, and asymmetry.
These metrics are important for the clinical community to monitor patients'
ability to move safely and easily as they age. Typically only measured in a
lab setting, these metrics can be uniquely measured by Apple Watch and
iPhone, and used by developers, such as Zimmer Biomet, a musculoskeletal
healthcare company, in patient care and in management tools such as
mymobility.
Privacy
Privacy is fundamental to Apple and particularly important when it comes to
health data, so all health features are designed with privacy in mind.
Health data is encrypted on device or in iCloud with iCloud sync, and data
is always in the user's control.
Availability
The developer beta of watchOS 7 is available to Apple Developer Program
members at <https://developer.apple.com/> developer.apple.com starting
today. For the first time, a public beta will be available to watchOS users
next month at <https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/> beta.apple.com.
watchOS 7 will be available this fall as a free software update for Apple
Watch Series 3, Apple Watch Series 4, or Apple Watch Series 5 paired with
iPhone 6s or later running iOS 14 or later. Some features may not be
available in all regions or all languages or on all devices. Features are
subject to change. For more information, visit:
www. <http://apple.com/watchos/watchos-preview/>
apple.com/watchOS/watchOS-preview.
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