Seems I’ll be keeping the Series 4 another year. Wow, by the time I will replace it in 2024, I will have had it for 6 years.
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watchOS 10 Compatible With Apple Watch Series 4 and Later, iPhone XS/XR or Later Also Required
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I’m still rocking a series 4. I’ll upgrade eventually, but I can still wait a bit longer. Hopefully by then they’ll have actually updated processors, an actual space grey version, and who knows, maybe more useful sensors (there’s a history of diabetes in my family, so if j’y any chance there is some sort of glucose monitoring, it’d be an easy sell)
I’m no expert in either but apparently non-invasive glucose monitoring is right up there with self driving in terms of difficulty, in that it’s theoretically possible but no one can do it up to the safety standards required yet, and it’s not clear when that could happen. I hope to be proven wrong but that alone would be a huge, market changing addition.
Other than that, compared to Series 5 and earlier the screen on 6 and up is a huge improvement. I really noticed going from a 5 to a 7.
The Series 6, 7 and 8 are. So it looks like Apple means the Series 4 and 5 may not get all of the new features of WatchOS 10.
Not if you want to find another “incentive” to push people to upgrade their phones.
Yeah, it sure is complicated. Even if they came out with something that could just say that it’s going up or down without a quantitative measure would be a good start.
I have no doubt I’d enjoy the bigger screen and some other changes, but nothing yet as has made it imperative I upgrade. When series 4 is no longer supported, that’ll for sure be it, but could happen before then. Are there any substantial rumors for the next watch?
Almost - the Series 4, 5 and 1st gen SE use a dual core processor based on the efficiency cores from the A12. The Series 6, 7, 8 and 2nd gen SE use a dual core processor based on the efficiency cores from the A13. Really there has only been 1 generation of chip advancement in the last 4 years.
I was hoping for Apple Notes to come to the watch. More eye candy with easier to access information. Hopefully, there will be a little more feature bang when the new watch is released.
My wife’s Series 4 40mm had terrible battery life so she upgraded last year. My 44mm is creaking along now and the battery is starting to become an issue, especially because I’ve been really active losing weight. I wanted to wait for Ultra 3 but will probably end up getting Ultra 2.
Cool to see S4 being still supported. I hope this watch does not turn into S3 after getting WatchOS10.
If I was a S4 owner, I’d be concerned about the lack of memory on the device and how large this update is.
So looks like WatchOS 11 will drop the support of Series 4 and 5. I wonder how they will drop the support of Series 8 and Series 6 at the same time since they have the same CPU. I think Series 7 and Series 8 have upgraded RAM and they will have one more update than Series 6. Apple will drop the support of Series 7 and 8 at the same time.