Hands-On With the New Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 Models
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fel10
macrumors 68020
Honestly the only reason why I’m upgrading is because I just recently cracked my screen and my stupid ass didn’t get apple care for it. The screen is probably cheaper than an Apple Watch but my granddad said he would pay for it if he could have my Apple Watch.
JGIGS
macrumors 68000
I'm still rocking my 3 series till it dies or there's are real reason to upgrade. 7 to a 9 seems pretty unnecessary but I'm also someone that mostly just uses it as an alarm clock, timer, see notifications and fitness tracker from time to time. Everything else is usually easier to do pulling out a smartphone.
CarAnalogy
macrumors 603
This one makes Apple way more money.
CarAnalogy
macrumors 603
I cant wait for Siri to be more quickly incorrect.
I find that Siri actually understands my words with very high accuracy. It's what comes next that's always the problem. We've heard about more on-device Siri for three years in a row now, but everything I want to do still seems to require a connection to a (buggy) server somewhere on the Internet.
If they really do move more USEFUL functions on-device, and maybe even use that Thread radio, I can see it getting a lot better for what I use it for. But no Thread on the watch, strangely, the place where by Apple's own admission I "want to use Siri the most."
Would love to see them use UWB to replace Bluetooth for the connection to the phone and AirPods. That might help.
I like this design and with my AW 7 hitting 81% battery health I see it as getting a battery upgrade of 25% by updating and the S9 is great since i doubt they will put in a S10 next year. Might be a new design but only thing i really want is more battery life and just having 100% battery health again will give me 25% battery life increase.
if they make a more square model like rumors had them do last year which thankfully didn't work out I would stay on whatever was the last model of the old design. Now i think i am set since i doubt they will make much of battery life extension in a redesign. But we will see that next year.
if they make a more square model like rumors had them do last year which thankfully didn't work out I would stay on whatever was the last model of the old design. Now i think i am set since i doubt they will make much of battery life extension in a redesign. But we will see that next year.
Good design is good design. Just because it's a smartwatch doesn't mean it needs to change design substantially over it's evolution.
Thanos812007
macrumors member
Ultra watch s1 iOS 17 RC has double tap to answer the call and hang up!🤣🤣 accessibility on and thats it. It is already integrated!
My fairly cynical guess is that they needed another feature to tout at launch and simply decided to move this out of the accessibility menu via a software tweak. That software tweak, however, isn’t ready. They probably will add *something* to make this feature different, but I would be surprised if it’s significantly different.
dampfnudel
macrumors 603
Unfortunately, that sometimes happens.
TracerAnalog
macrumors 6502a
The design is currently mature, not much Apple can do as they are waiting for a number of technologies to deliver on their promises: micro led, new sensors (bloodsugar, blood pressure, more), new battery tech. This is it for now. I’m sure there is quite some internal pressure for the engineers to deliver!
The rumors of a major redesign next year seem to indicate that some new capabilities are ready for prime time. I’m guessing micro led and a blood pressure sensor🤞🏼
F23
macrumors 6502a
saves Apple cost on all the existing Ultra cases and just slaps on the S9 & higher brightness screen
Daedalus65
macrumors member
Thanks, this is what I was looking for. And I could test it using the "try it out" and the double tap was recognized. However, when I tried to use it to answer a call or "snooze" an alarm, nothing happened. Is there something else I am missing?
I’m not sure. When I get a call on my watch I see a blue circle around the answer button and a message that says “Answer Double Pinch”. Same for snoozing. That’s with Quick Actions “on” not “when Assistive Touch is enabled”. Check your settings??
kkee
macrumors 6502a
It is different with the accessibility feature for sure, but people is too lazy to read. The new gesture is content-aware.
Daedalus65
macrumors member
Thanks. This is what was missing. For some reason it was not showing up initially, but after the latest v9 update, this is now what I am seeing. (9.6.3)