June 5, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
Introducing watchOS 10, a milestone replace for Apple Watch
Delivering redesigned apps, a brand new Sensible Stack, extra watch faces, new biking and mountaineering options, and instruments to help psychological well being
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple right this moment previewed watchOS 10, bringing Apple Watch customers a recent method to shortly view info with redesigned apps, a brand new Sensible Stack to indicate related widgets proper once they’re wanted, and pleasant new watch faces. New metrics, Exercise Views, and Bluetooth connectivity for energy meters, velocity sensors, and cadence sensors arrive for cyclists, whereas new Compass Waypoints and Maps capabilities additional assist hikers. The Mindfulness app provides extra instruments to help psychological well being. watchOS 10 is on the market as a developer beta right this moment, and might be obtainable as a free software program replace this fall.
“watchOS is the world’s most superior wearable working system, and it has redefined how folks all around the world consider what a watch can do,” stated Kevin Lynch, Apple’s vp of Know-how. “watchOS 10 is a significant milestone and an energizing new method for Apple Watch, introducing a recent new design for shortly viewing info, pleasant new watch faces, new options for cyclists and hikers, and necessary instruments for well being.”
New Design Language and Navigation
With watchOS 10, redesigned apps present extra info at a look, and there are new methods to navigate and shortly entry content material.
“With watchOS 10, we’ve redesigned the interface, permitting customers to expertise Apple Watch like by no means earlier than,” stated Alan Dye, Apple’s vp of Human Interface Design. “The replace provides customers the data that issues most to them at a look, simplified navigation, and a brand new visible language that takes full benefit of the Apple Watch show. We’re additionally introducing the Sensible Stack, providing fast entry to proactive and related info, proper from the watch face.”
Apple Watch apps, together with Climate, Shares, Dwelling, Maps, Messages, World Clock, and others, now make the most of extra of the Apple Watch show for extra glanceable info. The Exercise app on Apple Watch and the Health app on iPhone make monitoring every day motion even simpler with extra particulars, enhancements to sharing, a redesigned trophy case, and Apple Health+ coach ideas.
A brand new Sensible Stack accommodates widgets that show well timed info that adapts to the person’s context and might be revealed with a easy flip of the Digital Crown from any watch face. For instance, in the beginning of the day, Climate will present the forecast, or, when touring, the Sensible Stack will present boarding passes from Pockets. Calendar and Reminders will reshuffle to the highest to show upcoming conferences or duties, and apps which might be working, corresponding to Podcasts, will even transfer up so they’re available. Sensible Stack additionally allows customers to take pleasure in a lovely watch face, like Portraits, whereas nonetheless providing a strategy to shortly entry info they care about.
Builders may use the brand new design language to replace their apps. For instance, Streaks now makes use of the complete show to simply present progress and entry duties, the NBA app makes maintaining with a favourite group much more compelling with group colours and new sport particulars, and with Waterllama’s redesign, customers can shortly look at their hydration from the final seven days with only a flip of the Digital Crown.
Management Middle is now accessible utilizing the aspect button, making it straightforward to shortly open it at any time, over any app. A double-click of the Digital Crown reverts again to any apps used just lately.
New Watch Faces
watchOS 10 introduces two new creative and joyful watch faces: Palette and Snoopy. The Palette face depicts time in all kinds of colours utilizing three distinct overlapping layers, and because the time adjustments, the colours on the show additionally shift.
Moreover, the beloved sketch Peanuts involves life on Apple Watch with a brand new watch face that includes Snoopy and Woodstock. The characters work together and play with the watch arms, react to the climate situations within the space, and even get lively when the person does a exercise.
Biking
Apple Watch is a good machine for cyclists, with options together with computerized Exercise reminders, calorimetry for e-biking, and Fall Detection. watchOS 10 takes this widespread exercise even additional with superior new metrics, views, and experiences.
When a biking exercise is began from Apple Watch in watchOS 10, it’s going to mechanically present up as a Dwell Exercise on iPhone and, when tapped, will make the most of the total display. Exercise Views, corresponding to Coronary heart Price Zones, Elevation, Race Route, Customized Exercises, and a brand new Biking Pace view, have been optimized for the show measurement of iPhone, which might be mounted to a motorbike for handy, straightforward viewing throughout a journey.
Apple Watch can now mechanically hook up with Bluetooth-enabled biking equipment, corresponding to energy meters, velocity sensors, and cadence sensors. This permits brand-new metrics, together with biking energy (watts) and cadence (RPM), and extra Exercise Views, together with Energy Zones. Bluetooth connection is supported for Indoor and Outside biking exercises, in addition to GymKit.
New algorithms combining sensor knowledge from Apple Watch and linked energy meters can estimate Practical Threshold Energy (FTP), the very best stage of biking depth {that a} rider might theoretically keep for an hour. Utilizing FTP, Apple Watch calculates customized Energy Zones, used to simply see the present zone and monitor how lengthy is spent in every, which is an efficient and widespread means of enhancing efficiency.
Mountaineering
The Compass app on Apple Watch is a useful device for exploring the good outside. With watchOS 10, Compass mechanically generates two new waypoints: A Final Mobile Connection Waypoint will estimate the final place with mobile reception, which can be helpful for checking messages or making a name. In case of emergencies, a Final Emergency Name Waypoint will estimate the place on the route their machine had the final connection to any obtainable service’s community in order that an emergency name might be made.
When getting ready routes, a brand new Elevation view makes use of altimeter knowledge, providing a three-dimensional view of saved waypoints. And beginning within the U.S., Apple Maps shows a brand new topographic map that includes contour strains, hill shading, elevation particulars, and factors of curiosity. Customers may seek for close by trails and trailheads, with place playing cards that embrace detailed info, like path size, kind, and problem.
Psychological Well being
Psychological well being is as necessary as bodily well being, and analysis exhibits that reflecting on mind-set might help construct emotional consciousness and resilience. With the Mindfulness app in watchOS 10, customers can discreetly and conveniently log their momentary feelings and every day moods. Customers can flip the Digital Crown to scroll via partaking, multidimensional shapes to decide on how they’re feeling, choose what’s having the largest impression on them, and describe their emotions.
Within the Well being app in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, customers can see invaluable insights to determine what is perhaps contributing to their mind-set — whether or not it’s associations or way of life components, like sleep or train. Moreover, melancholy and nervousness assessments typically utilized in clinics are actually simply accessible within the Well being app and might help customers decide their threat stage, hook up with assets obtainable of their area, and create a PDF to share with their physician.
Imaginative and prescient Well being
Myopia, or nearsightedness, is the main explanation for imaginative and prescient impairment globally. To scale back the danger of myopia, the Worldwide Myopia Institute recommends kids spend at the very least 80-120 minutes a day outside. With watchOS 10, Apple Watch introduces the power to measure time spent in daylight utilizing the ambient mild sensor. Customers can view this info within the Well being app on iPhone or iPad.
Time spent in daylight can present extra advantages to bodily and psychological well being for all ages. And youngsters who wouldn’t have their very own iPhone can use Household Setup to pair their Apple Watch to their father or mother’s iPhone, giving dad and mom visibility into the period of time their children are spending in daylight with Well being Sharing.
Viewing one thing like a tool or a guide too intently has additionally been documented as a myopia threat issue. The brand new Display Distance function makes use of the identical TrueDepth digicam that powers Face ID in iPad and iPhone to encourage customers to maneuver their machine farther away after holding it nearer than 12 inches for an prolonged time period.
When a tool is locked with a passcode, Contact ID, or Face ID, all Well being app knowledge, together with psychological well being and imaginative and prescient well being knowledge, is encrypted.1
Further watchOS 10 updates embrace:
- NameDrop permits customers to simply share contact info by bringing Apple Watch near another person’s iPhone. Apple Watch customers may use NameDrop by tapping the Share button in My Card within the Contacts app, or by tapping the My Card watch face complication, after which bringing Apple Watch head to head with another person’s Apple Watch.2
- Offline maps on iPhone present entry to turn-by-turn navigation, estimated time of arrival, locations in Maps, and extra whereas away from Wi-Fi or mobile companies. These options may also be used on a paired Apple Watch that’s in vary of its companion iPhone.
- Customers can now provoke playback of a FaceTime video message and consider it instantly on Apple Watch. Moreover, Group FaceTime audio is now supported on Apple Watch.
- The Drugs app can ship follow-up reminders if a drugs hasn’t been logged half-hour after the scheduled time.
- Apple Health+ introduces Customized Plans, a brand new strategy to obtain a customized exercise or meditation schedule primarily based on day, length, exercise kind, and extra; Stacks, which permits customers to pick a number of exercises and meditations to do seamlessly again to again; and Audio Focus, which supplies customers the power to prioritize the amount of the music or the trainers’ voices.
Enterprise
Apple Watch provides enterprise clients options to reinforce productiveness and security within the workplace or within the discipline, corresponding to hands-free communication and responding to notifications on the go, or Fall Detection on a job web site. watchOS 10 introduces help for Cell System Administration (MDM), enabling enterprise clients to remotely and centrally set up apps and configure accounts on a fleet of gadgets, with options corresponding to passcode enforcement, and configuring Wi-Fi and VPN settings. With this replace, Apple Watch can additional assist enhance worker wellness, productiveness and well being, and security monitoring.
APIs for Exercise App Builders
watchOS 10 contains new APIs for exercise app builders that may enable them to create compelling new experiences. The highly effective movement sensors on each Apple Watch Sequence 8 and Apple Watch Extremely can detect speedy adjustments in velocity and acceleration, corresponding to when swinging a golf membership or a tennis racket. Now, builders may have entry to this high-frequency movement knowledge, so apps like SwingVision can analyze serve pronation, which is the twisting movement of the forearm, wrist, and hand, and Golfshot can detect small wrist actions to refine a golf swing.
Common teaching platforms corresponding to TrainingPeaks can use a brand new API to create a Customized Exercise that may be imported instantly into the Exercise app. App builders utilizing HealthKit for exercises will be capable of present validated energy for golf exercises, because the variation between utilizing a golf cart or strolling on the inexperienced is now recognized. Builders may entry velocity, cadence, and energy metrics for biking, plus mirror exercises from Apple Watch to iPhone.
Availability
The developer beta of watchOS 10 is on the market to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning right this moment. A public beta might be obtainable to watchOS customers subsequent month at beta.apple.com. watchOS 10 might be obtainable this fall as a free software program replace for Apple Watch Sequence 4 or later paired with iPhone Xs or later, working iOS 17. Some options will not be obtainable in all areas or all languages, or on all gadgets. Options are topic to vary. For extra info, go to apple.com/watchos/watchos-preview.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At the moment, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s 5 software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 workers are devoted to creating one of the best merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- This is applicable to all well being info apart from the person’s Medical ID.
- NameDrop might be obtainable on Apple Watch with a software program replace later this 12 months.
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