Introducing more customizable watch faces, an enhanced Workout
app, sleep stages, a first-of-its-kind AFib History feature, and an
all-new Medications app
Apple® today previewed watchOS® 9, which brings new features and
enhanced experiences to the world’s leading wearable operating
system. Apple Watch® users will now have more watch faces to choose
from, with richer complications that provide more information and
opportunity for personalization. In the updated Workout app,
advanced metrics, views, and training experiences inspired by
high-performing athletes help users take their workouts to the next
level. watchOS 9 brings sleep stages to the Sleep app, and a new
FDA-cleared AFib History feature provides deeper insights into a
user’s condition. The new Medications app makes it easy for users
to conveniently and discreetly manage, understand, and track
medications.
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watchOS 9 brings new experiences and
features, app updates, and creative ways to customize Apple Watch
to fit any style. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Users around the world love Apple Watch for helping them stay
connected to those they love, be more active throughout the day,
and better manage their health,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief
operating officer. “This fall, watchOS 9 takes the Apple Watch
experience to the next level with scientifically validated insights
across fitness, sleep, and heart health, while providing users more
creative ways to make their Apple Watch their own.”
Watch Faces for Everyone
The Apple Watch experience starts with watch faces, which give
users the opportunity to express personal style while connecting
them to relevant information at a glance through complications.
watchOS 9 introduces four new faces: Lunar, which depicts the
relationship between the Gregorian calendar and lunar calendar,
used in many cultures such as Chinese, Islamic, and Hebrew;
Playtime, a dynamic piece of art that’s unique to Apple Watch and
created in collaboration with artist Joi Fulton; Metropolitan, a
classic, type-driven watch face where the style changes as the
Digital Crown® is rotated; and Astronomy, an original face that has
been completely remastered and features a new star map and current
cloud data.
watchOS 9 introduces enhanced and modernized complications on
some of the most classic watch faces, such as Utility, Simple, and
Activity Analog, along with background color editing for Modular,
Modular Compact, and X-Large for additional personalization. The
new Portraits face showcases the depth effect on more photos,
including cats, dogs, and landscapes, while Chinese scripts have
been added as options for California and Typograph watch faces.
Focus now allows users to select an Apple Watch face to
automatically appear when they start a specific Focus on iPhone®,
such as the Photos face during a Personal Focus, helping users stay
in the moment.
Workout App Updates
The Workout app, one of the most popular apps on Apple Watch,
has been updated to provide richer metrics for measuring
performance, as well as new training experiences to help users
reach fitness goals. The familiar in-session display now uses the
Digital Crown to rotate between easy-to-read Workout Views, so
users can see important metrics for different training styles.
Heart Rate Zones, which can be manually created or automatically
calculated using personalized Health data, can be used to monitor
the intensity of a workout. Interval training is an important part
of any training plan, and in watchOS 9, the Workout app introduces
Custom Workouts, which can be used to create a structured workout
that can include work and rest intervals. New alerts, including
pace, power, heart rate, and cadence, can be added to guide users
throughout the workout.
For triathletes, the Workout app now supports a new Multisport
workout type that automatically switches between any sequence of
swimming, biking, and running workouts, using motion sensors to
recognize movement patterns. When each workout is complete, a
redesigned summary page in the Fitness app offers additional
details with interactive charts for more precise analysis.
Hit the Ground Running
Apple Watch is already a powerful tool for runners, and watchOS
9 brings more data and features to help track how efficiently users
run. New running form metrics, including Stride Length, Ground
Contact Time, and Vertical Oscillation, can all be added as metrics
on Workout Views. These metrics appear in the Fitness app summary
and in the Health app, where users can see trends over time and
learn from patterns.
Users can choose to race against their best or last result on
frequently used routes, and receive alerts during the workout for
being ahead or behind their pace, as well as when going off route.
Additionally, a new pacer experience lets users choose a distance
and goal for the time in which they want to complete a run, and
calculates the pace required to achieve the goal. During the
workout, they can follow the pace alerts and metrics provided.
Swimming Enhancements
Kickboard detection has been added as a new stroke type for Pool
Swim workouts, using sensor fusion on Apple Watch to automatically
detect when users are swimming with a kickboard and classify the
stroke type in the workout summary along with distance swam.
Swimmers can now track their efficiency with a SWOLF score — a
stroke count combined with the time, in seconds, it takes to swim
one length of the pool. Users can view their SWOLF average for each
set in the workout summary.
Get More Out of Apple Fitness+ Workouts
Apple Fitness+℠ is the first fitness and wellness service built
around Apple Watch, designed to be welcoming to all. It
intelligently incorporates real-time workout metrics from Apple
Watch right on the screen with iPhone, iPad®, or Apple TV®,
motivating users of all levels from start to finish. With watchOS
9, Fitness+ workouts now display on-screen guidance in addition to
trainer coaching to help users get the most out of workouts,
including: Intensity for HIIT, Cycling, Rowing, and Treadmill;
Strokes per Minute (SPM) for Rowing; Revolutions per Minute (RPM)
for Cycling; and Incline for walkers and runners in Treadmill.
Fitness+ subscribers without Apple TV can now use AirPlay® to
stream workouts and meditations with on-screen metrics to
compatible third-party TVs and devices, allowing them to train
anywhere, anytime.
Sleep Insights
The Sleep experience on Apple Watch already empowers users to
create Wind Down and Bedtime schedules, as well as track their
sleep to help them meet their goals. Sleep tracking in watchOS 9
provides even more insights with the introduction of sleep stages.
Using signals from the accelerometer and heart rate sensor, Apple
Watch can detect when users are in REM, Core, or Deep sleep. Users
will see sleep stage data on Apple Watch in the Sleep app and can
view more detailed information, like time asleep, alongside
additional metrics, like heart rate and respiratory rate, in sleep
comparison charts in the Health app on iPhone.
The machine learning models were trained and validated against
the clinical gold standard, polysomnography, with one of the
largest and most diverse populations ever studied for a wearable.
As the science of sleep is still being explored, users will be able
to aid in potential discoveries by contributing their sleep stage
data in the Apple Heart and Movement Study through the Research
app.
First-of-Its-Kind AFib History
Currently, the ECG app and irregular rhythm notification on
Apple Watch can identify potential signs of atrial fibrillation
(AFib). Left untreated, AFib is one of the leading conditions that
can result in stroke.
Research suggests that the amount of time spent in AFib may
impact a person’s symptoms, overall quality of life, and risk of
complications. Previously, there has not been an easy way to track
the frequency of AFib over an extended period of time, or to manage
lifestyle factors that may influence one’s condition. According to
the American Heart Association, addressing modifiable lifestyle
factors may decrease the amount of time spent in AFib.1
With watchOS 9, users who are diagnosed with AFib can turn on
the FDA-cleared AFib History feature2 and access important
information, including an estimate of how frequently a user’s heart
rhythm shows signs of AFib, providing deeper insights into their
condition. Users will also receive weekly notifications to
understand frequency and view a detailed history in the Health app,
including lifestyle factors that may influence AFib, like sleep,
alcohol consumption, and exercise.
Users can download a PDF with a detailed history of their AFib
and lifestyle factors, which can easily be shared with doctors and
care providers for more informed conversations.
Medications
The new Medications experience on Apple Watch and iPhone helps
users manage and track their medications, vitamins, and
supplements, allowing them to create a medications list, set up
schedules and reminders, and view information on their medications
in the Health app. The Medications app on Apple Watch makes it easy
for users to conveniently and discreetly track medications anytime,
anywhere.
Custom schedules can be created for each medication, whether it
needs to be taken multiple times a day, once a week, or as needed,
and users can set up reminders to help keep them on track. In the
US, users can receive an alert if there are potential critical
interactions with medications they have added to the Health
app.3
Privacy
Privacy is fundamental in the design and development across all
of Apple’s features. When a user’s iPhone is locked with a
passcode, Touch ID®, or Face ID®, all of their health and fitness
data in the Health app — other than Medical ID — is encrypted. Any
Health data backed up to iCloud® is encrypted both in transit and
on Apple servers.
Additional watchOS 9 Updates
- Staying informed in the moment is a powerful part of the Apple
Watch experience, and in watchOS 9, notifications have been
redesigned to be less interruptive while still being impactful,
arriving with new slimline banners when Apple Watch is being
actively used.
- Family Setup now supports the Home app so a child can be
invited as a member to control HomePod® speakers and smart home
accessories.4 They can also use home keys and hotel keys in Apple
Wallet®.
- With new Quick Actions on Apple Watch, users can do even
more with a double-pinch gesture, including answer or end a phone
call, take a photo, play or pause media in the Now Playing app, and
start, pause, or resume a workout. This builds on the innovative
technology used in AssistiveTouch® on Apple Watch, which gives
users with upper body limb differences the option to control Apple
Watch with gestures like a pinch or a clench without having to tap
the display.
- Apple Watch becomes more accessible than ever for people with
physical and motor disabilities with Apple Watch Mirroring,
which helps users control Apple Watch remotely from their paired
iPhone. With Apple Watch Mirroring, users can drive Apple Watch
using iPhone’s assistive features like Voice Control and Switch
Control — so they can navigate Apple Watch by using their voice,
sound actions, head tracking, and external Made for iPhone switches
as alternatives to tapping the Apple Watch display.5 Apple Watch
Mirroring uses hardware and software integration, along with
advances built on AirPlay, to ensure users who rely on these
mobility features can benefit from unique Apple Watch apps like
Blood Oxygen, Heart Rate, Mindfulness, and more.
- The QWERTY keyboard on Apple Watch Series 7 adds support
for French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), and
Spanish (Mexico, Spain, Latin America).
- Apps that are actively in use are now promoted over the rest of
the apps in the redesigned Dock, making it easier for users
to quickly return to them.
- The Reminders app now lets users add or edit key details
such as date and time, location, tags, and notes.
- Stay productive with the updated Calendar app by
creating new events directly from Apple Watch. For the first time,
users can access a Week view in addition to updated List, Day, and
Month views to support more scrolling through calendar events.
- Cardio Recovery is a useful fitness metric that can be
an indicator of cardiovascular health. Apple Watch now provides
estimates of Cardio Recovery after an Outdoor Walk, Run, or Hiking
workout, even when the workout does not reach peak intensity. This
metric can be tracked over time in the Health app.
- New APIs allow developers to build best-in-class
third-party apps, with CallKit and share sheet support, access to
Photos picker, and the ability to integrate watchOS apps with Apple
TV.
Availability
The developer beta of watchOS 9 is available to Apple Developer
Program members at developer.apple.com starting today. A public
beta will be available to watchOS users next month at
beta.apple.com. watchOS 9 will be available this fall as a free
software update for Apple Watch Series 4 or later paired with
iPhone 8 or later and iPhone SE (second generation) or later,
running iOS 16. Some features may not be available in all regions
or all languages, or on all devices. Features are subject to
change. For more information, visit
apple.com/watchos/watchos-preview.
1 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32148086/ 2 AFib History is
FDA-cleared for users in the US age 22 years or older who have been
diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. 3 Medication and interaction
information is evidence-based content licensed from Elsevier, a
leading publisher of health and science information. The
Medications feature should not be used as a substitute for
professional medical judgment. Additional information is available
on the labels of your medications, but please consult your
healthcare provider prior to making any decisions related to your
health. 4 Access to latest home architecture requires a paired
iPhone running iOS 16, a home hub (Apple TV or HomePod) for shared
home, and activation of notifications from the Home app. 5 Apple
Watch Mirroring is available on Apple Watch Series 6 or later.
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