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Although I don’t see a way to have one larger field or any way to separate two fields at top and bottom positions so they’re spaced apart. Yeah, I’m very picky in how i like to read my metrics.
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Gurman: watchOS 10 to Have Notable Changes, macOS 13.4 to Support New Macs
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Thanks for that tip.
Although I don’t see a way to have one larger field or any way to separate two fields at top and bottom positions so they’re spaced apart. Yeah, I’m very picky in how i like to read my metrics.
Wow truly breathtaking predictions. My day has been dramatically enhanced after reading them.
Apple does roadmaps hidden in plain sight out in the open, with future updates depending on the ground being laid with other features or technology making perfect sense in retrospect. Live Activities is laying the blocks for a watchOS revamp.
It looks like watchOS will be pivoting to Live Activities instead of dedicated watch apps. Live Activities are being increasingly supported in iOS apps and are effectively bite sized apps perfectly suited to a small screen on your wrist meant for short glances and interactions.
In addition to Lock Screen widgets, Live Activities also have a Dynamic Island component that look very much like Watch complications.
Pursuing developers to make separate apps for watchOS hasn’t worked out for Apple. Even large devs have been abandoning the platform. Apple seems to be conceding to that and taking a different approach, leveraging iOS‘ healthy app platform instead. Every app with Live Activities would automatically work on a Watch, with the developer simply having to check a box in Xcode to enable it.
It looks like watchOS will be pivoting to Live Activities instead of dedicated watch apps. Live Activities are being increasingly supported in iOS apps and are effectively bite sized apps perfectly suited to a small screen on your wrist meant for short glances and interactions.
In addition to Lock Screen widgets, Live Activities also have a Dynamic Island component that look very much like Watch complications.
Pursuing developers to make separate apps for watchOS hasn’t worked out for Apple. Even large devs have been abandoning the platform. Apple seems to be conceding to that and taking a different approach, leveraging iOS‘ healthy app platform instead. Every app with Live Activities would automatically work on a Watch, with the developer simply having to check a box in Xcode to enable it.
Wow. Interesting and thoughtful analysis. I think you're right. Straight-up apps on the watch are quite limited. But the Live Activities angle makes sense. And, yes, you are right that Apple tends to lay the groundwork in plain view and often only visible in retrospect.
Expecting new Macs at WWDC. Also wish to see many new watch faces with watchOS 10
This makes sense to me. There isn't a single third party app on the apple watch I've actually needed. Most are almost completely useless, such as Plugshare's app. It shows all chargers nearby with no ability to filter... meaning it gets jammed up with random chargers in people's garages that they for some reason added to the map as a "residential charger" despite it obviously not being open to the public. I feel like most watchOS apps have been given a similar level of minimum effort development time.
The only thing I could think of that would actually be useful on a regular basis is being able to control a car's functions via a watch app, or unlock the car if it operates like Tesla. I know Apple CarKey exists but I don't think anybody supports it besides BMW.
Totally agree with you. Although the number of watch faces has grown on watchOS, they need to open it up to third party designers and have a watch face store. The face is what you look at the most and quite frankly I get bored of looking at the same faces all the time.
I’ve been eyeballing a Fossil Wear OS watch lately. I just prefer the look of a round watch (which probably will never happen from Apple), and although I’m not particularly an Android fan, I love some of the watch faces they have.
Ideally I’d love to see a smartwatch/ watch face evolve to where the rendered screen looks like the watch is mechanical. WearOS has some pretty good 3d watch faces which look really good (at least on YouTube).
I bet that the "New features" will only be supported in the S8 and above versions, despite having the same specs since S6. Apple always find a way to make obsolete the "old" devices or make them feel ultra slow or with super short battery life. Lets see if the least innovative company in the planet can kill another succesful product, as Apple is doing with the Iphone and its absurd new features like the dynamic continent, removing the mute switch, etc.
I really hope there's gonna be a new way to interact with the watch, instead of trying to tap on extremely small touch areas. I feel like there are so many missed opportunities with the UX on the watch in general.
And I do hope they do something about the reliability of the device. Currently, about half of the things I'm trying to do either fail or are too slow.
And I do hope they do something about the reliability of the device. Currently, about half of the things I'm trying to do either fail or are too slow.
Maybe future watches will help with hand tracking with the AR headset, and we will have to wear a watch on both wrists.
All I read from that was ”Apple wants to drop support for series 4 but hasn’t yet figured out how to motivate it”.
I agree. New watch faces would be great. I’m dying for some interesting new graphics and shapes.Need some new Apple Watch faces. They are getting old. Also, Gurman said the same thing last Sunday about iOS 17. He could have said that last week as well instead of making us wait 🙄
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For me, the most glaring basic feature missing from the Apple Watch is the ability to SYNC TEXT MESSAGES WITH THE IPHONE, so that when you delete a message from the phone, it also deletes from the watch simultaneously. It blows my mind that this is not currently possible. It’s incredibly frustrating.Need some new Apple Watch faces. They are getting old. Also, Gurman said the same thing last Sunday about iOS 17. He could have said that last week as well instead of making us wait 🙄
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Beyond that, I would also like the ability to set complications where I choose. For instance, when using the Infograph face, you can only add a digital time display in the sub-dial of the watch face, rather than in the corners. Extremely annoying and counterintuitive.
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I think that you 100% called it.
Complications from the very start was the right way to put different data on the watch face.
Then, as you say, live activities and dynamic island providing more umm 'complicated' / interactive versions of these.
I suspect that this approach will be key for the forthcoming VR product too.
I still don't think that they'll do this as the watch face is such an important part of the watch's 'look'.
I suspect that they'll allow even greater customisation of existing watch faces though and maybe that's why many of the older current ones have been left untouched for 3+ years (i.e. they'll rework them for greater customisation).
personnally, i'd find it more confusing.Apple short should have brought all the versions in sync with the M1 Macs so iOS 17 MacOS 17 etc...
It’s a completely different model that’s double the price. Might as well be a different product category.
Maybe Apple will work real hard day and night to flip the software switch on and release the outstanding never before done body temperature reader on-demand for everyone, to revolutionize body temperature readings so youll know when you’re either in fever, or danger of hypothermia.
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It's ridiculous that messages in the cloud isn't supported with watchos.
Also ridiculous that I can't download a podcast or song directly to my watch from my watch.
Please yes. I honestly don’t know what the watch needs, but it is just a mess IMO. Across all areas. Apps, complications, app picker, notifications, activity tracking.
The “Siri” watchface was on the right track IMO - dynamic widgets based on context. IE if I start a timer…show the timer, and don’t make me have to swap watch faces. Really all we need is “widget stacks” on the watch. If I have an upcoming calendar event, show that, if I don’t, show something else. You can probably do some of this with Watchsmith, but I don’t want to manually program things, it should just be “magic”.
Activity tracking I gave up on a long time ago because of the lack of rest days. Get sick? Too bad, your 3 year streak is done.
As far as apps - Apple wasted gestures on changing watchfaces. Long press should be the only method to change watch faces, and left/right swipes should be quick app launch actions. Apps also need more background processing capabilities.
Notifications need finer grained watch controls - IE apps should be able to expose something like silence this type of notification, vs just mute for an hour or turn off completely.
Also custom watch faces. Or at least digital faces that take advantage of being a digital watch. There are more fonts than San Fransisco.
The “Siri” watchface was on the right track IMO - dynamic widgets based on context. IE if I start a timer…show the timer, and don’t make me have to swap watch faces. Really all we need is “widget stacks” on the watch. If I have an upcoming calendar event, show that, if I don’t, show something else. You can probably do some of this with Watchsmith, but I don’t want to manually program things, it should just be “magic”.
Activity tracking I gave up on a long time ago because of the lack of rest days. Get sick? Too bad, your 3 year streak is done.
As far as apps - Apple wasted gestures on changing watchfaces. Long press should be the only method to change watch faces, and left/right swipes should be quick app launch actions. Apps also need more background processing capabilities.
Notifications need finer grained watch controls - IE apps should be able to expose something like silence this type of notification, vs just mute for an hour or turn off completely.
Also custom watch faces. Or at least digital faces that take advantage of being a digital watch. There are more fonts than San Fransisco.
Seriously. Are other manufacturers that far behind the Apple Watch? It seems that apple has almost no incentive to give hardware updates to it.