Early this morning, Apple held the WWDC22 Global Developers Conference and officially released the new watchOS 9 system .
watchOS 9 has more watch faces to enhance the personalized experience. The four new dials include a "Moon Phase" dial depicting the relationship between the Gregorian and Lunar calendars, a unique dynamic artwork "Happy Hour" dial, an elegant "Metropolis" dial, and a completely recreated "Astronomy" dial.
At the same time, watchOS 9 launched the sleep stage function in the sleep app , and added an FDA-approved atrial fibrillation history function, allowing users to gain a deeper understanding of their physical condition. The new medication app also allows users to manage, understand and track medication usage with ease and rigour.
The watchOS 9 developer beta will be available to Apple Developer Program members starting today, the Public Beta version will be released to watchOS users next month, and will be available as free software this fall renew.
watchOS 9 is available for Apple Watch Series 4 and later and paired with iPhone 8 and later or iPhone SE (2nd generation) and later running iOS 16.
The following is Apple's official interpretation:
Apple previewed watchOS 9 today, bringing feature updates and experience enhancements to the world's leading wearable operating system. Apple Watch users will have more watch face options, richer complications to display more information, and enhance the personalized experience. Inspired by elite athletes, the updated fitness training app provides more advanced metrics, views and workout experiences to help users improve their training. watchOS 9 introduces the sleep stage function in the sleep app, and adds an FDA-approved atrial fibrillation history function, allowing users to gain a deeper understanding of their physical condition. The new Medication App allows users to easily and rigorously manage, understand and track medication usage.
"Apple Watch is loved by users around the world, helping users stay connected to family and friends, keep them active throughout the day, and better manage their health," said Jeff Williams, Apple's chief operating officer. "This fall, watchOS 9 launched It will bring scientific updates to fitness, sleep and heart health features to take the Apple Watch experience to the next level, while providing users with more creative ways to express the personality of Apple Watch."
A watch face for everyone
The Apple Watch experience starts with the watch face, allowing users to express their personal style while simultaneously accessing relevant information through numerous complications at a glance. watchOS 9 introduces four new watch faces: a "Moon Phase" watch face depicting the relationship between the solar and lunar calendars, which can be used in Chinese, Islamic, Hebrew and other cultural environments; a unique dynamic artwork "Happy Hour" watch face by Apple Watch co-created with artist Joi Fulton; an elegant "Metropolis" dial that changes style when the user rotates the Digital Crown; and a completely remastered "Astronomy" dial featuring a new star map feature and Cloud data function.
watchOS 9 introduces enhanced modern features on some of the most classic watch faces, such as the “Utility” watch face, the “Simple” watch face and the “Activity pointer” watch face, and adds background color editing to the “Modular” watch face and the “Compact Modular” watch face. , while adding a personalization function to the "Large Text" watch face. The new "Portrait" dial shows depth of field for more photos of cats, dogs, and landscapes, and the "California" dial and the "Typography" dial add Chinese characters to choose from. Focus Mode now allows users to select a watch face for a specific focus mode, and when the user turns on the focus mode on the iPhone, the Apple Watch watch face can automatically switch, such as showing a photo watch face in personal focus mode, helping users better focus on the moment.
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| The original "astronomical" dial has been completely remade to show the time by continuously updating 3D dioramas of the Earth, Moon and Solar System. |
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| The "moon phase" dial depicts the relationship between the solar and lunar calendars. |
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| The "Happy Hour" watch face is a dynamic interactive artwork created by Apple Watch in collaboration with Chicago-based illustrator and artist Joi Fulton. |
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| The classic "Metropolis" font dial features custom numbers that change when the user rotates the digital crown. |
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| The new “Portrait” dial now focuses on showing the depth of field effect for more photos such as dogs, cats and landscapes. |
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| The new “Portrait” dial now focuses on showing the depth of field effect for more photos such as dogs, cats and landscapes. |
Fitness Training App Update
As one of the most popular apps on Apple Watch, the fitness training app has been updated to provide users with richer measurement indicators and a new exercise experience to help users achieve their fitness goals. In the familiar training progress interface, users can now rotate the digital crown to switch between various easy-to-read physical training views and view important indicators of different training methods. Whether manually entered or automatically monitored based on personal health data, heart rate zones can be used to monitor the intensity of physical training. Interval training is an important part of any training plan, and in watchOS 9, the fitness training app introduces Custom Workouts, which can create systematic fitness training including training and interval rest. Users can add new reminders including pace, running power, heart rate and cadence to guide themselves through their workouts.
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| Inspired by elite athletes, the upgraded fitness training app provides richer measurement indicators, new views and exercise experiences to help users improve their training levels. |
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| Inspired by elite athletes, the upgraded fitness training app provides richer measurement indicators, new views and exercise experiences to help users improve their training levels. |
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| Inspired by elite athletes, the upgraded fitness training app provides richer measurement indicators, new views and exercise experiences to help users improve their training levels. |
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| Inspired by elite athletes, the upgraded fitness training app provides richer measurement indicators, new views and exercise experiences to help users improve their training levels. |
For triathlon enthusiasts, the fitness training app now supports multi-sport fitness training types, uses motion sensors to identify movement patterns, and can automatically switch between swimming, cycling, and running. After each workout, the redesigned summary interface in the fitness app provides more detailed information and interactive graphs for more precise analysis.
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| For triathletes, the physical training app now supports multi-sports physical training types, and can automatically switch between swimming, cycling and running. |
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| For triathletes, the physical training app now supports multi-sports physical training types, and can automatically switch between swimming, cycling and running. |
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| For triathletes, the physical training app now supports multi-sports physical training types, and can automatically switch between swimming, cycling and running. |
Run first
For runners, Apple Watch has long been a powerful tool, and watchOS 9 brings more data and features to help track users' running efficiency. New running form measurements including stride length, touchdown time and vertical amplitude can be added to the workout view. These metrics are also displayed in the fitness app's summary and in the health app, where users can view trends over time and spot patterns and learn about them.
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| New running posture measurement indicators, such as stride length and vertical amplitude, can help track the user's running efficiency. |
Users can choose to race against their best or latest results on the routes they use most often, and receive alerts for over or behind their chosen pace and off course during workouts. In addition, a new pace feature allows users to select distance and time goals to calculate the pace needed to reach them. During workouts, users can adjust their workouts based on pace reminders and metrics provided by the watch.
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| Users can choose to race against their best or latest results on the most frequently used routes, and receive reminders for exceeding or falling behind the chosen pace and off-course during physical training. |
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| Users can choose to race against their best or latest results on the most frequently used routes, and receive reminders for exceeding or falling behind the chosen pace and off-course during physical training. |
Swimming function enhancement
Pool swimming fitness training adds floating board detection as a swimming style. Apple Watch's sensor fusion will automatically detect whether the user is using a floating board to swim, and categorize it in the fitness training summary and display the swimming distance. Swimmers can now track their efficiency using the SWOLF value, which is calculated as a combination of strokes and seconds per stroke. Users can view their average SWOLF per swim session in the workout summary.
Insight into sleep
The Apple Watch's Sleep App experience already lets users set sleep and bedtime schedules, as well as track sleep to help achieve sleep goals. Sleep tracking in watchOS 9 adds sleep stages to give users a better understanding of their sleep. The Apple Watch detects whether the user is in REM sleep, core sleep or deep sleep through signals from the accelerometer and heart rate sensors. Users will see sleep stage data in the Sleep app on Apple Watch, see more details such as sleep time, and more metrics, such as heart rate and breathing rate, in the sleep comparison chart in the iPhone Health app.
The machine learning model is trained and validated by the clinical gold standard, polysomnography, in one of the largest and most diverse studies of wearables. As sleep science is still exploratory, users can also help make potential discoveries in the future by submitting their own sleep stage data in the Apple Heart and Exercise Study in the Research app.
watchOS 9 introduces sleep stages in the Sleep app to give users a better understanding of their sleep. The Apple Watch detects whether the user is in REM sleep, core sleep or deep sleep through signals from the accelerometer and heart rate sensors.
First-of-its-kind atrial fibrillation history function
Currently, the Apple Watch's ECG app and arrhythmia alerts can identify potential signs of atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation can be one of the leading causes of stroke if left untreated.
Research has shown that the length of time people experience atrial fibrillation can affect a person's symptoms, overall quality of life, and risk of complications. Previously, it was difficult to track the frequency of atrial fibrillation over an extended period of time or to manage life factors that could affect a person's health. According to the American Heart Association, changing variable life factors may reduce the duration of atrial fibrillation.
With the launch of watchOS 9, users diagnosed with atrial fibrillation can turn on the FDA-approved atrial fibrillation history function and obtain important information such as the estimated frequency of the heart rhythm showing signs of atrial fibrillation, allowing users to better understand their physical conditions. Users will receive weekly notifications about the frequency of atrial fibrillation and can view a detailed history in the Health app, including life factors that may affect atrial fibrillation, such as sleep, alcohol intake and exercise.
Users can download PDF files containing a detailed history of atrial fibrillation and life factors, which can be easily shared with doctors and caregivers for more detailed conversations.
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| For users diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, the atrial fibrillation history function will estimate the duration of atrial fibrillation and allow users to better understand life factors that may affect their physical condition. |
Medication App
The new Medication app experience on Apple Watch and iPhone allows users to create medication lists, create schedules and reminders, and view medication information in the Health app, helping users manage and track their medications, vitamins and nutrients. The new Medication app on Apple Watch allows users to easily and rigorously track their drug use anytime, anywhere.
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| The new Medication App experience on Apple Watch and iPhone helps users manage and track their medications, vitamins and nutrients. |
Whether it needs to be taken multiple times a day, once a week, or on demand, users can create a personalized schedule for each medication, and can set reminders to help guide users to take their medication. In the U.S., users receive an alert if there is a potential serious interaction between medications they add to the Health app.
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| In the United States, users receive an alert if there is a critical interaction between drugs that reduces their efficacy or causes unintended side effects. |
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| Users can create a personalized schedule for each medication, and can also set reminders to help guide users to take their medication. |
Privacy
Privacy is paramount in the design and development of all Apple features. When the user locks the phone with a passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID, all health and exercise data in the Health App will be encrypted, except for the information in the medical emergency card. Any Health App data backed up to iCloud is also encrypted in transit or on Apple servers.
Other watchOS 9 updates
Receiving real-time message alerts is an important part of the Apple Watch experience, and in watchOS 9, notifications have been redesigned to be less intrusive, but still effective, and display as a new small banner when the Apple Watch is in use.
The Family Sharing setup now supports the Family App, and children can be invited as members to control HomePod speakers and smart home accessories. They can also use their home key and hotel key card key in the Apple Wallet app.
With new Quick Actions on Apple Watch, users can answer or end calls, take photos, play or pause media in the Playing app, and start, pause or resume workouts with a "double-pinch" gesture. Based on innovative technology used in Assistive Touch on Apple Watch, this feature allows users with limited upper limbs to control their Apple Watch in different ways, such as pinching or making a fist, without having to tap the display.
Apple Watch Mirroring helps users remotely control their Apple Watch with a paired iPhone, making it easier for people with physical or motor disabilities to use the Apple Watch. With Apple Watch Mirroring, users can use their Apple Watch with accessibility features like the iPhone's Voice Control and Switch Control, so they can use voice, voice commands, head tracking, and the Made for iPhone external conversion device as a way to tap the Apple Watch display. Alternative action. Apple Watch Mirroring uses hardware and software functions, as well as the advanced technology of AirPlay, to help users who rely on these assistive functions of physical mobility to use Apple Watch's unique apps smoothly, such as blood oxygen, heart rate, mindfulness, and more.
Apple Watch Series 7's full keyboard adds support for French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, Latin America).
Apps in use are now displayed ahead of other apps in the redesigned Dock, making it easier for users to quickly return to those apps.
The Reminders app now lets users add or edit key information such as date and time, location, tags and notes.
Increase productivity with the updated Calendar app and create new events directly on your Apple Watch. As a new experience, users can now see a weekly view, as well as an updated list view, daily view, and monthly view, and swipe down to browse calendar events.
Cardio Recovery is a useful fitness indicator that reflects the user's cardiovascular fitness. Apple Watch now estimates Cardio Recovery after a user's outdoor walking, outdoor running, or hiking workouts, even if the workout isn't at peak intensity. Users can track the history of this indicator in the Health App.
New APIs help developers create great third-party apps, including CallKit and ShareSheet support, access to the photo picker, and integration of watchOS apps into Apple TV.
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| The redesigned dock makes it easy for users to return to the app they are using. |
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| After the Calendar App is upgraded, users can create new schedules directly on the Apple Watch. |
Launch time
The watchOS 9 Developer Beta will be available to Apple Developer Program members starting today at developer.Apple.com/cn/. A public beta will be available to watchOS users next month on beta.Apple.com. watchOS 9 will be available as a free software update this fall for Apple Watch Series 4 and later and paired with iPhone 8 and later or iPhone SE (2nd generation) and later running iOS 16. Some features may not be available in all regions, all languages, or all devices. Features are subject to change. Visit apple.com/cn/watchos/watchos-preview for more information.
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