The Apple Watch has not gone unnoticed in this WWDC 2018, the team of engineers from Apple has been working on the 5.0 version of watchOS to bring us a lot of news and changes with which users can take better advantage of their smartwatch. Let's see the most important news of watchOS 5.
watchOS 5 Complete Updates
In this article, we will see the completely new features of watchOS 5.
The competitions in Activity and new training arrival
How could it be otherwise, watchOS 5 focuses on improving health and physical activity. One of the first improvements is the possibility of creating challenges and competing with friends. We can challenge them to see which one gets the challenge in seven days and win a prize for it.
Apple also introduced in watchOS 5 new workouts like yoga. Now in the training, there is more data and information about the race. Following the training, now the Apple Watch can automatically detect that you have started a workout if you forgot to activate it.
The Apple Watch becomes a walkie-talkie
A new app comes to the Apple Watch that allows us to connect and communicate much faster and more comfortable with other users who use the Apple Watch, it is the walkie-talkie. It works with both Wi-Fi and LTE.
The Siri sphere has more information and third-party apps
It is perhaps the most interesting sphere of all because it always shows us relevant information in context. Now it offers more information about Siri calendars, events or Shortcuts. But the best of all is that ***finally third-party apps can be integrated into it*** to display information there.
Interactive notifications and ... web interface
WatchOS notifications are now more complete and allow us to perform more actions directly from the notification and without entering the app. On the other hand, they have even integrated a web viewer that allows you to see a preview of the links.
Podcasts for watchOS is finally available
One of the most requested actions to watchOS is to listen to podcasts directly from the Apple Watch. This is ideal to listen to podcasts while we are doing a training for example. The official Apple Podcasts app has finally reached the Apple Watch thanks to watchOS 5.
New Pride strap and new Pride sphere
As we saw a few days ago, Apple presents a new sphere on the Apple Watch centred on the coloured bands of the Pride flag. Apple makes a new sphere that represents the LGBTQ community available to users. At the same time, we have a new LGBTQ strap that perfectly complements the dial.
watchOS 5: compatible Apple Watch and availability
watchOS 5 is the latest version of the operating system for the Apple Watch that the company has presented today. Precisely since today, it is available to developers in the form of beta, officially it will arrive for all users from September and without beta. Of course, we must take into account what devices can be installed and used, these are the Apple Watch that supports watchOS 5:
- Apple Watch Series 0
- Apple Watch Series 1
- Apple Watch Series 2
- Apple Watch Series 3
At the moment we will have to wait to install the beta of watchOS 5 to discover more features and changes that have gone unnoticed. Anyway, this is a great update that will allow us to take even more advantage of Apple's smartwatch. watchOS 5 is not the only presentation of this WWDC 2018, discover the rest of the innovations that Apple is showing us in this conference for developers.
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