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Apple Announces watchOS 7 With Enhanced Face Customizations, Handwashing Detection, and More
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I really want them to add group activity challenges to the watch. I use the activity challenges weekly on my apple watch, but I have groups of friends that i would like to compete with. Thats the only workout function I wish we had.
I sleep with my Watch now, and I charge it when I'm sitting at my desk or driving. It charges pretty fast.
I have worn mine every night of my ownership since the first one premiered. For illustration sake, pretend you are at 100% leaving the house in the morning. Personally, I leave theater mode turned on 100% of the time, (I do not mind tapping my watch to wake up/use it). When I get home from work I am typically in the 60-70% range. When I head to my bedroom, (where I watch my evening TV with wife), I throw it on the charger. It typically needs 1 minute per 1%. In an hour or so, I put it back on for sleeping. When I wake it is usually 94%. I throw it on the charger while I shower/dress etc. It is back at 100% when I am ready to leave for work. Rinse, repeat.
Whatever happened to the rumor of being able to have a child's Apple Watch on the parent's phone, without needing a phone just for that AW? Damn, I was really looking forward to that.
I wear my watch at night already, and charge it for an hour or so sometime during the day when I'm sitting at my desk (usually skewed from hourly boundaries a little so as to not miss a "stand" hour).
Note that when it's in night mode, it'll now shut off the display unless/until you press the screen - this will save considerable power over keeping the screen dimly lit all night (Watch 5 and above). Should actually last longer on a charge with watchOS 7 than it does now.
When you get up you can immediately start charging it. Assuming you have a bit of a morning routine with showering etc. your watch is already charged quite a bit by the time you leave. If that's not enough, buy a charging cable for work, it doesn't take long to charge the watch.
I'll admit that I haven't been able to watch the stream yet, but I'm not sure where you guys got this from. They way you've all phrased it makes it sound like you're expecting third-party faces. That's not the way I took it. The way I understood it was that you could take the included faces, customize them with the complications you include on them and all the other settings that we already have, and then share that with others. But this will all be based on the standard set of faces Apple provides.
Yep, it's definitely not opening the doors for custom 3rd-party watch faces. It's being able to distribute/share your exact screen layout (think of all the options you can customize for a given watch face, complete with specific complications in the various slots). So if someone says, "how did you get your watch to look like that", you can answer with ... well, some sort of link or text string that they can tap on to get the same layout. It will also get use by developers who offer complications for their apps - they can include essentially a recipe that configures your watch face to look like their sample. But it's using the existing watch faces (plus any new ones that Apple adds).
Again, not sure where this is coming from. See the two posts right above yours.
I wonder if FitBit has a patent on fitness tracking with no user interaction. Just go for a walk come home and bingo a walk has been logged with no user input at all. It is the only feature I really wish my AW had and it seems so easy to implement - it makes me wonder if there is some legality involved.
Not to be confused with Nightstand Mode which annoyingly does not stay lit as one might expect a nightstand alarm clock. Still not fixed, sigh.
Yes — honestly, I prefer this over many of the recent stage presentations with long awkward pauses, vamping, etc. This reminded me of Nintendo Directs, which are great.
Also, love him or hate him, Tim’s strength is not being a charismatic presenter. I’m glad he’s letting people on his team shine and just acting as master of ceremonies. It works well!
Interesting. That circle in the top right is the voice memos glyph. Seems like it would be somehow related to recording audio.
As a guess, whether the watch is listening, likely for a “Hey Siri”, though possibly because of some other app you’re running. Tapping it may be a way to mute the microphone.
Alternatively, perhaps whether it is or is not recording some sort of biometric data, like pulse, again, with a tap to “mute”.