Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the apple watch series 7 has been out for a month
and have been using this on my wrist since the day it was released and so i want to talk about
the overall design how it's held up if it's worth upgrading to if you have a series 6
or earlier apple watch and just the overall experience including battery life and more
and so like i said it's been out a month i've been using it every single day since i did the original
unboxing and i've been using it on my wrist with this band as soon as i got it this is a nomad
stainless steel band to match the watch and they were nice enough to send that along and i can link
that in the description if you want to check it out but it's stainless steel i've been using it
with this band and i often use this other band from apple when i don't want something that's as
heavy on my wrist one thing i noticed going from the last generation which was titanium
to this generation stainless steel there's a noticeable weight to it that's much heavier than
before and that's basically going from aluminum or aluminium to steel or from titanium to steel
there's definitely a weight difference here especially if you're using one of these steel
bands so sometimes it's a little bit heavy i'll change it out with my normal use and the overall
design of this this year is slightly different in that it has a larger display so if i turn
it on here you can see the larger display and it wraps around the edges a little bit so ever
so slightly it wraps around the edges you can see this a little bit better on different watch faces
where this is one custom to the series seven where the numbers sort of wrap around the outside edge
and it gives you that idea of an extra display size i'll compare those in just a moment
but the overall design is pretty much the same as last year and i say pretty much because the
main thing that's different is the speaker on the side so you can see the speaker on the side
of the series seven there's just one on the left hand side on the series six it has two speakers on
my series six and titanium there was two on the stainless steel on the right there's one it's a
slight difference there's also a difference like i said with the display it's a little bit larger
and so that larger display is bigger and more noticeable than i would have imagined
initially so let me go back over here to the other say or the exact same watch face and with the two
watches side by side you can see that there is a little bit larger face on the right watch with the
new series seven we have a 45 millimeter and while i didn't think this would be much of a difference
it definitely is a difference as you can see here so while we have the larger watch face that's the
main difference we can use all of the same bands so that's something that apple has been consistent
with since the initial apple watch you can use any band as large as long as you have the larger size
apple watch with the larger sized watches and the same is true with the smaller ones so if you have
the 41 millimeter or any of the others throughout the year they'll still work on the same watches
so if you have a collection of bands it's nice you can continue to use them now as far as the
stainless steel the reason i get stainless steel or titanium is because of its scratch resistant
it's scratch resistance in general the display is sapphire crystal and like i've said before and
others have shown it's not the best of sapphire but it's much better than glass so it scratches
much or it's much more scratch resistant and has zero scratches on it i've banged this into
concrete and everything else you won't see a single scratch along the outside edge as well
stainless steel does tend to show a little bit more as far as the scratches go but this one
looks pretty clean so far it's not scuffed up or anything like that so it's holding up well
they're very very durable if you have the aluminum one then maybe you would want a screen protector
on that since it's glass if you're a little bit rough on it or even a case but if you have the
stainless steel or titanium they seem to hold up very well this year the sensors are identical so
let me take this watch band or open the watch band here and compare the sensors
so the sensors are identical and you're not really getting anything else this year other than maybe a
slightly larger screen so the chipset inside is the same the battery is a little bit different
in size but you also get a brighter screen this year so you can see all the sensors are the same
the display is brighter but only when it's down so when the display is down and in always on mode
the display is a little bit brighter now this doesn't matter to me as much and the reason
is is i'm not looking at my watch when it's tilted away from me when i bring it up and
look at it of course i want to see it and expect it to do what you would expect the watch to do
but when tilted away that doesn't really matter to me at all it's nice that it's there it's 70
brighter indoors when your wrist is down but either way it doesn't really make a difference
to me the larger display is what makes the biggest difference and it's something like i said i didn't
think it would be that big of a difference but maybe you want to text someone or want to input
a password or something like that you have a full size keyboard now so if we go into messages
now the full size keyboard is quite good you can use quick path or basically swipe to input text
and it understands it fairly well so if i swipe in here hi how are you today you'll see it pick that
up pretty easily however i find it much easier just to use voice dictation hi how are you today
and you'll see it worked pretty well so i find that to be the most efficient way just to input
text but you have the keyboard option there if you want to so that's something that's really nice
with that extra size screen also if you go into an app such as calculator the buttons are a little
bit larger so maybe you were using this and it was difficult it should be a little bit more easy to
use now however the larger screen doesn't make a huge difference for most people especially if
you're using the smaller size however we do have a couple extra options as far as this goes with
watch faces and things but i think most people are curious about maybe battery life and fast charging
and while we can fast charge this i've found that the watch charges fairly fast anyway i put it on
the charger it charges up at night i take it off the charger and then use it throughout the day i
typically find that it gets pretty decent battery life but about the exact same as the series six so
you'll see i'm at 79 percent i took this off the charger at about 9 00 a.m this morning and so it's
been off the charger about five hours or so and we're down about 21 so it's doing pretty good and
typically throughout the day it does quite well now as far as battery if we go into battery we can
check the battery health battery health after one month of use is 100 i just put it on the charger
every night and i have optimized battery charging turned on it handles the battery for me and it's
doing pretty well i'd say it's doing a little bit better than the series 6 since we have optimized
battery charging and i'm on a public version of watch os 8.1.1 so this seems to be doing well with
battery but i'm not getting any additional battery over what i would get with a series six in my use
i can get about a day and a half with this with my typical use and i use this sometimes maybe
i'll take a walk use the workout i'm not using a bunch of the fitness options myself but some of
those people that are doing that regularly maybe streaming to airpods you are going to use that
battery up the same as you would with a series 6. so there isn't really an advantage there also
with the series 7 you have better dust resistance but i really haven't noticed any difference since
it is already water resistant you can swim with it and everything else and one person i did hear from
typically washes their their watch and then was using some alcohol wipes to wipe it down and found
that the front popped off of it i recently advised them not to use that as alcohol will loosen the
adhesive and pop the screen off so if you have battery swelling issues it could do that but it
was too new of a watch for that to be happening over and over so i advised not to do that and
it seems like they're not having any issues since so if you're going to clean it of course wipe it
down with water maybe quickly wipe it down with a lysol wipe or something like that or clorox wipe
as apple advises on their website but nothing more don't let it sit in that sort of material
or you'll typically loosen adhesives that hold it together now reception wise i haven't noticed
any difference at all this is actually the cellular model and it stays connected
does what i need it to do i haven't really had any issues there and it seems to work fine no issues
whatsoever it really just does exactly what i need it to and if i leave my phone at home go
for a walk i'll still get my notifications since i have that cellular network active
so it's nice to have that and of course it seems to work just fine all of the sensors work well
and the only thing i've found the same as any other watch is when you put it on your wrist
and maybe you want to check your different heart rate settings or maybe your ecg you will need to
make sure that it's fairly tight to your wrist so those sensors have good contact other than that
it's basically the same as anything else it's the same as all the other watches and the number one
question i get asked is should you upgrade from a series 6 to a series 7 or is it worth the upgrade
and i would say it's worth the upgrade if you need larger text from a series six but
if you're getting it for any of the other features i wouldn't really do that if you want the larger
display then yes however if you're on a series five or older then absolutely it's worth the
upgrade there's definitely advantages as far as battery life the always-on display the the
larger display of course and just the newer build with nicer speakers and more so it's definitely
worth the upgrade if you're on an older watch i'm not even sure why apple still sells a series 3. i
think they should get rid of that and should have just sold the series 4 and maybe the series 7 and
se but if you're on any of the others other than maybe a series 6 i would recommend upgrading to it
if not then i would probably hold off now i don't think we're going to see a series 8 redesign
i think we're going to have this design for a while maybe we'll see some new materials maybe
ceramic again or just different finishes but i wouldn't expect any major upgrade to apple
watch other than maybe sensors with series 8. so if you have a series 6 and you want to wait
for maybe new sensors that apple has possibly been working on i know that they're working on
some blood pressure monitoring sensors as well as possibly in the future monitoring blood glucose
levels if they can get that to work properly that would be revolutionary for a lot of people
then maybe it would or then at that point it would be worth the upgrade but right now
i would hold off if you're on a series six like i said otherwise it's worth the upgrade
now as far as future updates and everything else well we're still seeing updates for
series 3 apple watch so this definitely will get updates for years with new features and more
although year over year sometimes you won't get the same watch faces but you will get some
upgrades hopefully we'll see some additional watch faces that take advantage of that larger
display but so far we haven't seen anything really revolutionary with this watch it's a small upgrade
with a larger display it's really nice to have the larger display but that's really the main change
with this but let me know your thought about the series 7 in the comments below did you pick one up
i'd love to hear from you in the comments below also for those of you wondering on my watch face
many people ask me what is this watch face this is actually infograph modular with the app called
lumi in the middle so if we go to edit you can see here if we go over to complications this is
an app called looming so it's a paid app which i purchased and then you have it in the middle and
it shows you sun up sundown things like that or sunset and so i use that i've used it for
quite some time and i really like it so if you wanted to set up your watch like mine that's
what i'm using now if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe and if you enjoyed
the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time