WatchOS 7 Beta 1 is Out!

Hi everyone, Today Apple released watch OS 7 Beta 1 to developers. This is available to all developers and you need a series of three series four or series five Apple watch in order to install it those are the only watches it's available for and this should release to the public sometime in the fall around September or October.

Now you'll need an iPhone to install it and it was about a gigabyte in size and if you've not installed a Watch OS beta before make sure that you really know what you're getting into because you cannot downgrade by yourself you actually have to bring it to Apple they send it in and downgrade it for you and then hand it back.

So just know that you actually should not install this unless you're aware of those risks. Now let's take a look at some of the new features and the build number. So first let's take a look at the build number you'll see it's pretty early we go to about and there's the build number there. 18 are five three one zero a and this particular update adds some nice features and the first thing is actually battery health.

So if we go back so in the settings if we scroll down to battery let's find it here there we go we'll go to the battery under battery you'll see the charge will go down the tap on battery health and you'll see this one is currently at 89%. So just like all batteries, it degrades over time you've got optimized battery charging built-in and it's nice that they've added this although there's no way to really replace a battery on an Apple Watch this is a series for Apple Watch.

So it's a couple of years old at this point or a year and a half or so and it's doing well but it will degrade and need a battery replacement eventually. Now Apple has added some new watch faces and you see the first one here. If I press and hold you'll see this is chronograph Pro and it has a tachymeter tachometer on it and you can access.

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Now aside from the new complications if we go over maybe we'll create a new Watch face we have the ability to add multiple complications from the same app from a third-party developer so maybe we want to customize one of these like this one here maybe we would like this Watch face the info graph modular will edit and then we'll go over to complications and maybe we want activity from an activity app. But we want a couple of them so you can see that we can add two activity apps or we could add something else and customize.

It for maybe a workout or something like that now once you've found a watch face that you like you now have the ability to share it so you can share it using the little share button here and contact and share your watch face they can share one with you and you should be able to search them in the future.

When it comes to watching faces so if we slide over here we'll eventually be able to search them where they put them. I'm not sure maybe in the face gallery but you can look through a bunch of the ones you already have and you'll eventually be able to search some new ones share them with your friends and that's a nice little addition.

Now a new feature is a sleep tracking this was long rumored to becoming and if we go to sleep here see it'll take a moment to open and you have to set this up on the iPhone app in the health app first but you'll see we have sleep tracking full schedule no recent sleep data and when you set it up for the first time it will suggest things like shortcuts in the morning maybe you want to turn them on.

So if we go over to the iPhone and then we go to health and health we'll wait for it to load and then we can go down to where we have sleep now under sleep you'll see your schedule wake-up times get more from health you can add data to it and even get sleep apps and you've got. Some other options as well so you can plan out your sleep see how much sleep you're getting or not getting and keep track of that if you'd like and you can use your watch to get more out of that by sleeping with your watch on now.

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If you leave it on you can have it set up for haptics and things to wake you up with audible alarms or haptic alarms so if we go back here we go to settings we go-to options for sleep and it's turned on automatically and then we have it set up for sleep tracking we have charging up reminders don't use this watch for sleep and so we've got other options for that.

So it's a nice little update for your watch now in addition to noise that was added last year they added noise health. So you've got this here of course but also on the health app again we also will have noise and you'll see noise notifications and this will work across your headphones and everything else so it'll let you know if you're listening to two loud environments or environments that are going to damage your hearing over time and it will tell you how it's going now, of course, you could turn this off if you'd like but they've added some additional features with it.

Now aside from the Health they've updated the activity app and renamed it to fitness and fitness now has some new workouts so if you want some new workout Styles they're available. So we'll go over to our watch and take a look at that now if we go to the workout app we have some new ones now, of course, you're familiar probably with indoor cycling and all those things let's go down here see if we can find some new ones so we've got functional strength training

We also got dance we've got cool down and core training so those are four new workouts that have been added as well now they've updated maps with cycling directions and it can use your watch to let you know if you need to climb some stairs or take other direction but what they haven't done is add the cycling option yet so that will be added eventually so maybe we look for a gas station.

I guess we'll go to this one and you'll see down here we have cycling but it doesn't really work yet so it's there but it doesn't allow you to use it but you will eventually have cycling directions. Now the final new feature has to do with something that's always been important but seems to be at the forefront of everything right now and that's handwashing.

So if we go to settings we go down to hand washing we can now have a timer activate as soon as it detects we're washing our hands so if you start. it'll start us 20-second timer and then let you know through the timer and through haptics whether or not you're washing your hands properly or for long enough.

So let's try that out now the handwashing prompt should be automatic by listening for water and your movements and you'll see that it didn't actually activate it so that little hand washing experiment did seem to work so well although.

Wednesday, 26 August 2020

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