Apple Watch Series 8 and the SE revealed at the apple event
Apple has made many updates to their Apple Watch models, which include new and improved performance, safety features and technology upgrades.
The features in the new Apple Watch series include a large display and an unbreakable crystal.
Apple Watch Series 8 gives you all-day 18 hours of battery life and introduces ECG apps, fall detection, retrospective ovulation estimates, and international roaming while adding temperature sensing capabilities.
The new Apple Watch SE has the core Apple Watch abilities, including a full activity tracker, acceleration notification and emergency message. In addition, it offers a redesigned design at a cheaper price of $249 (US).
Apple Watch now allow for additional facial designs, an enhanced Workout app which includes the first-ever Fib History feature, sleep improvements, medication and dietary management features.
From today, the new Apple Watch Series 8 and Apple Watch SE are available to order with availability beginning Friday for customers.
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“Apple’s motto is ‘think different.’ And the Apple Watch allows its users to be a little bit different,” said Jeff Williams, the chief operating officer of Apple in an interview with Fortune.
“Apple Watch Series 8 reinforces our commitment to new technology, while Apple Watch SE brings advanced features at a new starting price. Powered by watchOS 9, the best smartwatch delivers even more capabilities than before.”
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The menstruating cycle is vital to women and Apple Watch 8 can track this with its new temperature-sensing capabilities designed with the same privacy protections as all other data.
Apple Watch Series 8 takes a different approach to temperature sensing. It utilizes two sensors — one on the back of the watch, closest to the skin and another on the underside, not far from the heart rate sensor.
A wrist sensor on the Apple Watch can offer insight into your sleep health. The sensors sample your wrist temperature every five seconds and measure changes as small as 0.1℃.
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With support for individuals to synchronize and share environmental data, people can understand the correlation between different lifestyle changes and their baseline temperature levels.
Utilizing built-in health sensors in Apple Watch Series 8, users can receive daily predictive ovulation information for family planning. The new temperature-sensing capabilities included in this release can also be used to improve period predictions.
All users of Cycle Tracking can now be alerted if their personal cycle history shows a deviation, such as irregular, infrequent, or prolonged periods, and persistent spotting that might point to an underlying issue. iOS 16 and watchOS 9 stress the importance of taking care of oneself.
To detect crashes using the Apple Watch, Apple has developed a smarter and more advanced algorithm, which takes advantage of a new, more powerful gyroscope and accelerometer.
A company conducted two years of research to develop an algorithm that can produce quality content without requiring too many parameters, similar to how human writing.
Using motion data, GPS, and the microphone on iPhone, Crash Detection is able to detect unusual patterns that indicate a severe injury.
The Apple Watch detects a car crash and alerts you with a 10-second countdown. The device will also attempt to contact emergency services if the wearer is unable to respond.
Emergency responders will receive your location, while you and your contact both have the opportunity to help. All this and more is facilitated by Apple Watch’s Crash Detection function.
When a serious car crash is detected, the emergency services call interface will appear on Apple Watch because it is most likely to be closer than your iPhone. The emergency services call interface can be made through your watch if it is within range of the best connection, or else you’ll need to make an emergency call through your phone, which may have some difficulty keeping up.
Apple has just released a new Low Power Mode for you to try that wil extend your watch’s battery life up to 36 hours and disable some sensors, such as the Always-On Retina display, workout tracking, heart health notifications, and more.
watchOS 9
A new software released on the world’s leading wearable operating system comes with new features and enhanced experiences.
With international roaming coming this fall, users can stay connected on a cellular network while traveling internationally. Plans can be bulk extended for their Apple Watch from their iPhone for little or no additional fee and will be available with over thirty carriers worldwide.
People with AFib who are looking for information about how frequently their heart rhythm is different from normal can use the FDA-approved AFib History 5 feature. With information about the condition, it is possible to master more about their condition and feel better about their treatment plan.
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With the Health app’s new AFib Tracker, users will receive notifications on their phones when AFib symptoms are back. In addition, users can access an overview of what effects lifestyle factors that might cause AFib, like sleep, alcohol consumption and exercise have had on the condition in recent weeks.
The iPhone app also contains a PDF that can be downloaded and shared with doctors to help them understand your AFib history and lifestyle risks.
It has received local clearance from health authorities in more than 100 countries, and will be available in those countries in the US, Australia, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, Mexico, South Africa and the UK.
The new Compass app consists of a new hybrid view on the watch’s screen. The watch now has a digital compass, as well as an analog one.
Of course, the crown has its pros and cons that include being able to see latitude and longitude, as well as incline with information management. With the ability to select Compass Waypoints and Backtrack view, it is easy to lead after night fall.
When the user is lost or exhausted and needs help retracing their steps, Backtrack can detect when they disappear from the normal grid and automatically turn on. It uses GPS data to generate a path showing where the user has been.
Compass Waypoints are quick and convenient for marking a location or point of interest. The Compass Waypoint icon can be tapped to place it and then selecting one then provides its distance from the user.
The Workout app in watchOS 9 includes new in-session views that give you more precise data, such as Segments, Splits, and Elevation. You can also improve your training with advanced workout experiences, including Heart Rate Zones, Custom Workouts, Pacer, and coming later this year, Race Route.
With built-in GPS and auto-switching workouts, watchOS 9 is made more convenient. With more new running form metrics to help track efficiency, like Stride Length, Ground Contact Time and Vertical Oscillation being added as options in Workout Views.
New sleep tracking features in watchOS 9 provide even more insights into users’ sleep cycles. The Apple Watch uses data from heart rate and accelerometer to analyze brain waves, core, and deep sleep patterns.
Through the Health app and Apple Watch, users can see the level of their sleep. On the iPhone, the Sleep app provides interactive graphs with data about your heart rates and respiratory rates for a more detailed look at your sleep patterns and patterns.
The Medications app allows users to view and manage their medications, vitamins, and supplements in the Health app, creating a list of items to be consumed.
The Apple Watch Series 8 Lineup
Apple Watch Series 8 will be available in a variety of case finishes, colors and bands to fit your personal style. With the new Apple Watch Series 8 available in two different sizes (41mm and 45mm) and compatible with all bands, you’ll easily find a design that fits your needs.
The Apple Watch Series 8 aluminum case colors range from silver, graphite, and gold with the best option discovered to date being product red. With the release of apple watch studio, Apple Watch Series 8 can pair with any available band in an existing collection.
Apple Watch Nike and Apple Watch Hermès debuted new bands and watch faces this fall, with Nike releasing new sport band colors and new sport loop. It’s a woven loop with the “Just Do It” logo.
Beginning Fall 2018, all Apple Watch users will have access to the Nike watch faces, including fresh colors coming to the new and improved Bounce face.
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Apple Watch Hermès introduces two new bands; H Diagonal, which creates a sporty pattern of the Hermès H with hundreds of micro-perforations, and Gourmette Metal, which features a polished stainless steel chain and black leather wrapping twice around the wrist.
What Hermès got with its new bands was a whimsical new watch face called Lucky Horse. The animated horse on the face complements the background of the brand and celebrates their equestrian roots, then goes to sleep when you lower your wrist and comes alive when you raise it back up.
The Apple Watch SE
From $249, the Apple Watch SE offers powerful upgrades to help laypeople get started in the Apple setting and including features like a processor twenty percent faster than previous models, as well as anti-crash features.
The Apple Watch SE retains the same case design as the previous models but features a different case made with a nylon composite material, making it much lighter than its predecessors. The watchOS 9 features improve fitness and wellness for the Apple Watch SE users.
Apple Watch SE is available in 40mm and 44mm aluminum case options in each of the three finishes: midnight, starlight, and silver. It can be paired with any band.
How Apple Watch can be environmentally friendly
Apple Watch Series 8 and Apple Watch SE use a minimal impact on the environment, as they have been designed to minimize their environmental impact.
All Apple Watch’s feature 100 percent recycled aluminum, tungsten comes in the Taptic Engine, and all rare earth elements are from recycled materials. Apple has used 100 percent recycled gold in the plating of printed circuit boards on one model on the Apple Watch Series 8 and SE.
Apple has removed all the harmful metals from their commercial products. 94 percent or more of the packaging is not plastic, bringing Apple closer to their goal of removing plastic from their packaging in 2025.
Today, Apple is carbon neutral for corporate operations, and by 2030, plans to be 100 percent carbon neutral across its supply chains and product life cycles.
Apple devices produce zero emissions during their lifecycle, and are the first company to have reached net-zero climate impact across all stages of production.
By using an encrypted system, Apple assures the privacy of sensitive personal information. All that is displayed about a user’s health and fitness data in the Health app when their iPhone is locked using fingerprint recognition, passcode or face-recognition technology is encrypted.
Data backups through iOS and watchOS are encrypted with a key that Apple does not have access to, meaning they cannot read the data on Apple servers.
