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Apple Watch to Load Up w/New Features
March 22, 2020
9to5Mac reported that Apple Watch will gain the ability to detect blood oxygen saturation, a critical vital for maintaining heart and brain health. The new health feature isn’t the only change coming to Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7.
The feature will add to the existing ability to customize existing watch faces with various colors, styles, and complications. Watch face configurations will be sharable as files that can be previewed in the Files app and shared with various methods including AirDrop from the iPhone. There’s no evidence that watchOS 7 will support third-party watch faces but it’s easy to imagine how watch face distribution could be a building block. watchOS 6 includes two versions of the Infograph watch face introduced in 2018 with the Apple Watch Series 4: Infograph and Infograph Modular.
watchOS 7 will introduce a new version called Infograph Pro. The key characteristic will be a new element to Apple Watch faces: a tachymeter, which is an analog watch scale located around the dial that is used to measure speed and distance based on travel time.
Figure 1: New Apple Watch Face Galleries
March 22, 2020
9to5Mac reported that Apple Watch will gain the ability to detect blood oxygen saturation, a critical vital for maintaining heart and brain health. The new health feature isn’t the only change coming to Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7.
The feature will add to the existing ability to customize existing watch faces with various colors, styles, and complications. Watch face configurations will be sharable as files that can be previewed in the Files app and shared with various methods including AirDrop from the iPhone. There’s no evidence that watchOS 7 will support third-party watch faces but it’s easy to imagine how watch face distribution could be a building block. watchOS 6 includes two versions of the Infograph watch face introduced in 2018 with the Apple Watch Series 4: Infograph and Infograph Modular.
watchOS 7 will introduce a new version called Infograph Pro. The key characteristic will be a new element to Apple Watch faces: a tachymeter, which is an analog watch scale located around the dial that is used to measure speed and distance based on travel time.
Figure 1: New Apple Watch Face Galleries
Source: 9to5Mac
A third photo source will be available in watchOS 7 based on leaked iOS 14 code: shared albums. Apple’s Photos app includes this special album type that allows multiple users to access and contribute to the same shared album.
Allowing shared albums as a source enables new ways of creating photo watch faces. For example, someone could use their shared family album as a watch face that includes photos added by other family members. You could also create a shared album for managing photos on a parent or grandparent’s watch face. Apple Watch for kids watchOS 7 will be a huge update for parents if these features in development make the final cut, and this dad can’t be happier about what’s coming.
Parent iPhone, kid Apple Watch Apple appears to be developing the ability to set up and manage Apple Watches for kids using a parent’s iPhone. A single iPhone can already activate and pair with multiple Apple Watches, but only one watch can be used at a time and each watch is tied to the same account as the iPhone. Under the new model, a parent could activate and manage an Apple Watch for a child without requiring a second iPhone. This method will also offer parental controls including managing trust contacts and available music.