Apple immediately rocketed with iOS 16 at WWDC 2022, But now it’s time to talk about the Apple Watch – more precisely the new version of its operating system, watchOS 9. The news is different, starting from four new watch faces (including one with an astronomical theme and one with a lunar theme), new complications, a redesigned interface for Siri and restyling of notifications.
The new Share Sheet API will be available to developers soon. Apple ran through the little things, with the workout app taking center stage. There are now three new running metrics that analyze how you’re wasting energy or something like that. Machine learning analyzes your body movements so that it can give you hints about your running style. New workouts also help you when running, including viewing the heart rate zones.
You can create your own workout that includes slow and fast parts. This allows you to improve your jogging even more. Apple is also using new metrics for strength and more here. You obviously want to give runners lots of helpful opportunities to improve. New metrics can also be used for hiking, HIIT, or functional strength training.
The fitness app generally ends up on the iPhone with iOS 16. An Apple Watch is therefore no longer absolutely necessary. Let’s get to the sleep app, which can now also recognize sleep phases. It took long enough. You can then see how long you’ve used up in deep, REM, or shallow sleep and how that affects your recovery.
If a user has heart disease, the Apple Watch can provide more heart health data and make it accessible to doctors. You can use a medication app to track the intake of medicine. It can also remind you to take it. The medication can be scanned by camera and entered in the calendar.
Then there is not much more. The watch is increasingly becoming a health tool.
The Fitness app is available to all iPhone users who want to track and meet their fitness goals, even if they don’t have an Apple Watch. iPhone users can set a daily exercise goal in the Fitness app and track how their actively burned calories are helping to close their exercise ring. iPhone motion sensors can measure steps, distance, stairs climbed, and workouts from third-party apps to estimate how many calories are actively burned toward the daily motion goal. In addition, users can share their exercise ring with friends for additional motivation.
The Health app now comes with medication. With it, users can easily create and manage a medication list, set up schedules and reminders and keep track of their medication, vitamins or dietary supplements. In the US, users can simply point their iPhone camera at a label to add a medication, learn about their medication, and receive an alert if there may be critical drug interactions. In addition, users can share their health data with their loved ones and easily create a PDF with the available health data from affiliated health facilities directly in the Health app.