Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released
watch os 7 for all supported devices now unfortunately some of the older
devices are no longer supported so what that means is
series 3 series 4 series 5 the new series 6 and new se are the only
supported devices so if you have a series 1 2 or series 0
even you won't be able to get this update but if you have the newer ones
you'll be able to and they're available in the watch app
now this particular update was a pretty solid size at around 200 megabytes when
i installed it from my iphone 11 pro max to my series 4
apple watch and brings quite a few nice changes now it may be a larger install
maybe smaller just depends which version you're coming from
using the betas it was pretty solid and that's what i updated from now along
with watch os 7 apple also released ios 14 ipad os 14
as well as tv os 14. so a lot of updates today
and a lot of solid changes so let's go ahead and take a look at what's new now
i have watch os 7 installed on my series 4 apple watch
and before we take a look at some of the new features such as watch faces
let's go into the watch app on ios 14. you'll see there's a new discover button
in the bottom right and this helps you get started with what's
new welcome to apple watch an apple watch user guide and more but
there's a new feature within watch os 7 that i think is really
helpful for a lot of families so if you go to all watches
in the app and then tap on add a watch we now have an option
for setup for a family member in fact you can have a family member
share your phone that doesn't have an iphone so maybe you have a child you
want to use an apple watch you can have them use this
and then you can set up things such as school time so it has a display
like this where it limits them to what they can
actually look at while they're at school it will also limit their contacts based
on actually who you've decided they can talk to or text or message
and then of course you have memoji we'll talk about later
and all you do is just pair it with your watch and
you're good to go now it requires a series 4 gps
and cellular apple watch but i believe you can pair up to five different ones
so it's nice that they've added that and then
also you can search for new watch faces in the face gallery so we'll take a look
at some of the new ones you can see here but there's a new face gallery where you
can find new apple watch faces so let's take a look at some of
the new watch faces and you can see this is the first one in
fact this came out with the betas and if we press and hold on it
you'll see it says chronograph pro and this has a tachometer or
tachometer built in that allows you to track your speed
or time over distance so that's kind of nice that they've built that in
but the next new one is artist so they've partnered with an artist to
create this it changes on its own based on the time
of day and changes through different pieces of
art there's not really any customizations with this one
if we scroll over you'll see that we have count up and count up
is a new watch face of course you can customize complications
you can change the color to whatever you'd like
and it's just another watch face let's go back home here
and we'll swipe again and we have gmt for different time zones so we'll hit
edit and we have different colors of course
we can change it change our complications and
that's about it and then let's go to lock that one in
we'll go over to memoji now there's a new emoji app we'll take a look at in a
moment but you can edit your memoji change the
color of the background we can change a couple complications
here and change the character as well so you
can change it to whatever you'd like so if you want your memoji on there
whether that be for you or a child you can have that now the next one i
really like and it's called stripes and i like it because it's highly
customizable so if we hit edit you'll see that we can customize the
color of every single stripe not only can we do that we can change
the angle or the amount of stripes so we can have a lot or a little and if
we go over here we can change the position i'm at 135 degrees
now i'm at 45 degrees you can just rotate it however you'd like
so it's a nice little update i suppose that has this nice one but it doesn't
have complications so that's one of the downfalls of this
style and then the next style is typograph this is the
last new watch face and this particular one has a few
different fonts and colors so if we want to change the
color we can change that no complications but we have different
symbols you can see we have roman arabic indic arabic roman
and devin gary if that's how you say that
and then style classic rounded whatever you'd like again we'll come
back over here you can change it however you'd like change the colors as well
so you want to keep that when you can and one thing you may have already
noticed is there's a share button here so we can
now share a watch face that we've designed so maybe we have a complicated
one with a bunch of complications based on
fitness that we want to do cycling you can actually share that to someone
so share it via text message add a contact and then you'll share your watch
faces so you have a lot of different options
to share faces now which is really nice you can also find new watch faces in the
app store or online as well so we should see a lot more of that soon
and one thing you may have noticed already
is that notifications cannot be cleared just by pressing and holding you
actually have to scroll up and tap on clear
all they've gotten rid of that force press unfortunately so it doesn't seem
to work you can press and hold but it doesn't
work the exact same way so they've changed that a little bit you still have
your command or control center down at the bottom
and it works just fine but you don't have that force press feeling anymore
now going along with the different watch faces we have new complications as well
so let's go over to one with a bunch of complications maybe we'll go to count
up scroll over to a complication and let's tap on this corner here
and you'll see we have a few new ones and one of the new ones is let's see if
i can find it here we have astronomy where we have moon
phases if we want that one we can set it to the moon phase we also
have a new camera remote see if i passed it here there we go we
have a camera remote we can trigger our camera with the
watch directly with one press we also have
shortcuts so if we want to go down to let's go all the way down here
you'll see we have shortcuts so you can run any of the shortcuts you have set up
on your phone which is really nice and then also you have
sleep and sleep is a new feature that's built into the watch so you'll see there
it says sleep so there's actually a new app called
sleep as well so if we go back to our apps
i have them sorted this way instead of the other view we'll go to sleep
and you'll see you can set a bedtime wake-up time
and you can see your full schedule so you can set it to whatever you'd like
you can turn it off of course it will remind you to go to bed if you
want to do that set a sleep goal or wind down
and it will also track it along the app as well so if we go into the health app
we can see that as well on our phone now to get the most use out of this you
want to wear your watch while you're sleeping and it will notify you if it
gets down to say thirty percent before you go to bed that you need to charge it
before you go to bed it'll also notify you in the morning as
well but you'll see i didn't use it to track
there it just knows based off when i put my phone down and it's got my schedule
and when i wake up or go to sleep and the alarm and benefits of sleeping and
those sort of things so it's pretty nice that they've included
that and it's built into the watch and hopefully it doesn't take too much of a
hit to the battery but it should be pretty good that way
now there are some new workouts as well so if we go into
our workout app here and you'll see there's a few new ones i'm already on we
have dance we also have cool down we have core
training and then there's some others here but
that's pretty much it as far as that goes
and so they've also updated the fitness app or what was the activity app on the
iphone to go along with that so if we go into that you'll see the
fitness app has been updated so it's easier to read so we have our activity
at the top we have our workouts and then our trends
and then our awards so it's just a nice little way to see everything
i think it's better arranged it's easier and more glanceable now to go along with
the activity we also have some adjustments we can
make to how we want to track our activity so or
set our goals rather so if we go up to activity and then we scroll all the way
down you'll see if you go in the main one you've got
your rings here that you can close but if you scroll all the way down you can
now change your goals so now it's not a set amount you can
change your calories or your move goal your exercise goal and
your stand goal so you can change that to whatever you'd
like now so they've just allowed a little bit more customization with that
now maps gets an update as well so if we go to our maps here
and maybe we search for nearby restaurants let's just pick the top one
here and we scroll down we now have cycling directions and the cycling
directions work in conjunction with your phone
to let you know if there's stairs that you'll need to climb it lets you know
the grade it doesn't say directions are available
there right now for cycling but in certain cities it's there such as san
francisco it will let you know the grade how difficult of a ride it will be and
if you need to climb stairs and when so it gives directions based off that so
nice little update if you cycle to work or maybe just go shopping
using your bike it's a little bit nice to have that and to know exactly
how your trip will be and then also we have an emoji app to go
along with that memoji watch face and so you can customize it however
you'd like right in the app of course let's see if we press on this
one we can go and change our skin tone our hairstyle everything you can do on
the phone you can do here for the most part so if
you want to change whatever you want here
change your eyebrows everything you want you can change here it's just built into
the watch maybe to be a little bit more fun
for kids that have one of these as well and then again change color of your
eyebrows four head mark quite a few different things as well now
there's a new feature you may have already heard about and that's hand
washing so if we go into our settings here
and we scroll down you'll see that we have hand washing
there we go and what hand washing will do is give you a timer it senses when
you're washing your hands it will pop on a timer and it will start
counting down from 20 seconds if you stop moving the timer pauses
and will continue when you start moving again and then it will congratulate you
or let you know when you're done by letting you know through a
notification and messaging you by vibrating your wrist
so it notifies you that way as well you can turn it off of course turn it back
on whatever works for you but it's nice that they've added that
now they've updated siri as well with enhanced on-device dictation for
faster responses also siri can now translate up to 10
different languages on device so let me show you an example
how do i say hello in japanese in japanese
and you can do that for various different languages as well
how do i say goodbye in spanish in spanish so it tells you
it pronounces it for you you can play it over and it tells you how to speak back
and forth so that goes along with the translate app that's new in ios 14
as well there is additions to battery health so if we go into our settings
we'll go back here and let's find battery
there we go battery health has been added so
the battery chart is just like the one on your iphone and if you scroll down
you have battery health and as you can see i'm at eighty one
percent capacity this is a series four so it's a couple years old
that's within range eighty percent after two years as normal
and so hopefully apple adds a battery replacement program but it's not easy to
replace a battery in an apple watch so it does tell you what it's like and
also will tell you if it goes bad and then also
at the bottom you have optimized battery charging so if you put it on the charger
every night it will stop at around 80 percent and
then fully charge up to 100 by the time you normally wake up and it
does that after it learns a few days and then it will
optimize your battery charging to prolong your battery over time now
lastly there's an update to hearing health under the noise app now
noise has been there for a while it measures the loudness or decibel level
in the room and lets you know about long-term exposure but it works in
tandem with ios 14 and updated features so if we go into
the health app again under health if we go to browse
we've got hearing and it will measure your environmental sound levels
the past seven days let you know about noise notifications and if you're using
headphones it will give you more information if they were too loud
and get more information about hearing health so it's nice that it's built in
and of course you don't have to use it if you don't want to but there's a lot
of additions to apple watch that make it
great and then of course if you have one of the brand new
series 6 or se apple watches you may have some new features depending on
which one you're coming from but if you have a series 6 apple watch
you'll also get an o2 sensor so that'll be built in as well so we have
some new watch faces and overall it's pretty good performance
wise i have had an occasional hiccup but in general it performs
really well and battery life seems to be the same as what i had with watch os 6.
so i think it's a pretty good update and
there's quite a few features that hopefully will roll out around the world
depending on your local government with some of the heart rate
measures or ecg and things like that in the future so that's it for watch os
seven i think it's a pretty solid update it's not
huge as far as what it appears to be but there's a lot of under the surface
changes as well and i think it's a much bigger update
than it actually looks like so those solid features just like hand
washing some new watch faces and everything else
sleep tracking i think are great additions but let me know what you think
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