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Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 to Feature Watch Face Sharing, Parental Controls and More

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Along with the ability to detect blood oxygen saturation, the Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 are also expected to bring new watch faces, watch face sharing capabilities, and more.


In a new report out today that's based on code found in leaked iOS 14 snippets, 9to5Mac shares upcoming Apple Watch features.
  • Share Your Face - watchOS 7 will allow users to share specific watch face configurations with one another.
  • Infograph Pro Watch Face - There's a new Infograph Pro watch face that includes a tachymeter. A tachymeter can be used to compute speed based on travel time.
  • Photos Watch Faces - In watchOS 7, watch faces created from photos can be made using a shared album in addition to individual photos and groups of photos from albums.
  • Parental Controls - watchOS 7 will add features for managing an Apple Watch for a child with a parent's phone.
  • Schooltime - Allows parents to manage which apps and complications can be used during specific hours.
  • Control Center - Control center will feature new toggles for sleep mode and noise detection.
  • Architecture - In watchOS 7, apps are no longer based on extensions, which is a holdover from when apps required a phone app to function. That was eliminated in watchOS 6, and now in watchOS 7, apps will not have an extension base.
Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 are expected to include a sleep tracking feature, which has been rumored many times before. The feature is allegedly confirmed within the iOS 14 code, and a user will be able to set a personalized sleep goal in the Health app on iPhone, which will also offer up recommendations for improving sleep.

Details on watchOS 7 will be unveiled at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, but anything that also requires Apple Watch Series 6 will be hidden until the fall when new Apple Watch models are expected to debut.

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My Garmin tracks my sleep and has a battery that lasts over a week rather than 18 hours. I enjoy my other Apple stuff, but really need at least 2 days battery life before I would think about a watch.
 
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  • Parental Controls - watchOS 7 will add features for managing an Apple Watch for a child with a parent's phone.
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Allow setup from a parent's phone and we're talking. However, I fear this is just an extension of "screen time" for ios/mac devices.
 
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The ‘Infograph Pro Watch Face’ sounds interesting. Apples proprietary watch faces always have some type a ‘unique Identifier’ to them, and this one specifically can be used to compute speed based on a time equivalent. Sounds nerdy, but I like it.😁
 
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Infograph Pro Watch Face - There's a new Infograph Pro watch face that includes a tachymeter. A tachymeter can be used to compute speed based on travel time.
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And here we see Apple once again using their favourite word, pro.
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Architecture - In watchOS 7, apps are no longer based on extensions, which is a holdover from when apps required a phone app to function. That was eliminated in watchOS 6, and now in watchOS 7, apps will be not have an extension base.
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That's a bit hard to parse, if I'm being honest.
 
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Mo 1959 said:
My Garmin tracks my sleep and has a battery that lasts over a week rather than 18 hours. I enjoy my other Apple stuff, but really need at least 2 days battery life before I would think about a watch.
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100% agree with this. DW recently got an Apple Watch 5 and I bought a Garmin Forerunner 945. My Garmin has sleep tracking functionality and ~ 7 days usage (in my current usage mode), while her AW gets < 24 hours (she gets a LOT of texts and notifications). Until Apple can extend battery life to a couple days, it’s a non-starter for me...no matter how nice the screens/apps/integration is.
 
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That's a bit hard to parse, if I'm being honest.
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Agreed.

The short of it is that up until recently, apple watch "apps" were always essentially part of an iPhone app. There always had to be a corresponding app on your iPhone, and the code always was part of an iPhone app project in Xcode.

For the past year or so, you could write stand-alone iPhone apps.

It sounds like, going forward, stand-alone will be the only way to go.
 
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