65+ new features in watchOS 5 for Apple Watch

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• Reply 1 of 26

  ihatescreennames Posts: 1,904member

  June 8, 2018 2:53PM

  AppleInsider said:

  
  • Oval-shaped buttons
  ...
  
  • Flights climbed

  Yes! Oval shaped buttons!!
  
  I can already see flights climbed on my Watch and iPhone? How is this different? Is there a change?
  
  Lots of good stuff here, though. I’m looking forward to the update. 

  edited June 2018
• Reply 2 of 26

  Drew.Kocur Posts: 6unconfirmed, member

  June 8, 2018 3:23PM

  All these “improvements” but can I change the alert sounds?

  
• Reply 3 of 26

  directhacker Posts: 12member

  June 8, 2018 4:29PM

  Wait, does this mean the beta has been rereleased?
• Reply 4 of 26

  vahancouver Posts: 14unconfirmed, member

  June 8, 2018 5:00PM

  Thanks for the comprehensive review!
  Learned a lot of new stuff and can't wait to get it on my WATCH.

  
• Reply 5 of 26

  toysandme Posts: 243member

  June 8, 2018 5:04PM

  I’d like to see a snooze feature added to the Do Not Disturb function. Mine is set to kick in automatically for midnight to 7 AM but there are times when I want to stay up a little longer. I’d like to be able to long press the moon icon and see snooze or delay options like 30 min or 1 hour etc

  
• Reply 6 of 26

  tomahawk Posts: 178member

  June 8, 2018 5:23PM

  With the new WiFi options can the watch finally join WPA2 enterprise networks like eduroam?

  
• Reply 7 of 26

  Andrew_OSU Posts: 573member, editor

  June 8, 2018 5:45PM

  ihatescreennames said:

  AppleInsider said:

  
  • Oval-shaped buttons
  ...
  
  • Flights climbed

  Yes! Oval shaped buttons!!
  
  I can already see flights climbed on my Watch and iPhone? How is this different? Is there a change?
  
  Lots of good stuff here, though. I’m looking forward to the update. 

  Same flights climbed metric, just presented in the activity app on the Apple Watch. It didn't show up there by default previously.
  
  

  
• Reply 8 of 26

  king editor the grate Posts: 646member

  June 8, 2018 7:13PM

  My kingdom for heat index. Maybe there's already a way to find that or use as complication and I've missed it like a dumbbuttocks? It could well be overkill, but I'd also enjoy more than four complications. (Now I have "Theme from Shaft" in my head. "He's a complicated man ...")

  
• Reply 9 of 26

  lito_lupena Posts: 116member

  June 8, 2018 11:56PM

  i am much more excited about apple watch software updates over ios or macos. i’m rooting for the small guy. hahaha!

  
• Reply 10 of 26

  ihatescreennames Posts: 1,904member

  June 9, 2018 12:03AM

  Andrew_OSU said:

  ihatescreennames said:

  AppleInsider said:

  
  • Oval-shaped buttons
  ...
  
  • Flights climbed

  Yes! Oval shaped buttons!!
  
  I can already see flights climbed on my Watch and iPhone? How is this different? Is there a change?
  
  Lots of good stuff here, though. I’m looking forward to the update. 

  Same flights climbed metric, just presented in the activity app on the Apple Watch. It didn't show up there by default previously.
  
  

  I’m really not trying to be dense here, what is metric for flights climbed? 1 flight is not 1 flight metric?  Also, as I mentioned, I can see flights climbed in the Activity app on my Watch (and iPhone) on watchOS 4.

  
• Reply 11 of 26

  bluefire1 Posts: 1,302member

  June 9, 2018 8:51AM

  It sounds like an awesome upgrade, and I'll definitely be buying the next generation model, but would appreciate any suggestions as to where to sell my AW3.
  
  

  edited June 2018
• Reply 12 of 26

  ihatescreennames Posts: 1,904member

  June 9, 2018 11:09AM

  bluefire1 said:

  It sounds like an awesome upgrade, and I'll definitely be buying the next generation model, but would appreciate any suggestions as to where to sell my AW3.
  
  

  Check buybackworld.com or gazelle.com.

  
• Reply 13 of 26

  GeorgeBMac Posts: 11,421member

  June 9, 2018 1:06PM

  While Apple is progressing well on the exercise front, they could still do much, much better.

  Essentially, they cater to the mainstream crowd of casual exercisers who mostly care about the basics rather than serious athletes who want more and need more.  They could do that by either developing the apps themselves or by better supporting third party developers to provide the muscle power needed.

  
  

  One of the siimplest (from the user standard point not the developer's) is the face:   while running you need to make quick glances to determine the metric you are interested in.   But, instead of enabling the user to see one or two large  block letters showing the preferred metric (split pace, heart rate, time & distance, etc...) that are easy to see & read with a quick glance during adverse conditions and strenuous exertion we get tiny little letters.  The most customization you can do is eliminate some of the information -- but that doesn't make the remaining information any easier to see...

  
  

  Another enhancement would be improved post workout analysis.  A serious runner is interested in heart rate, elevation, pace and so on -- as well as the interaction between them.   But, instead of meaningful analysis we get tiny, worthless little graphs and averages that are mostly for show...  For example:   because I'm recovering from an injury and getting back into running again, during yesterday's run I had to take several walking breaks during the run.  While I know that my pace and my heart rate were high while I was running, all Apple showed me were a tiny, worthless graph and a bunch of worthless averages....
  

  
  

  Basically, that all is because Apple is relying on casual exercisers for design advice.   They need to bring in some serious athletes and find out what they need and want so we don't have to take off our Apple Watch and strap on a Garmin when we exercise or run.
  

  
• Reply 14 of 26

  anantksundaram Posts: 20,404member

  June 9, 2018 3:02PM

  Yawn. These tweaky little bells and whistles amount to a hill of beans. Call me when the battery life (at least) doubles.
  
  I'll stick to my Series 0 in the meantime.
• Reply 15 of 26

  netmage Posts: 314member

  June 9, 2018 5:51PM

  The Apple Watch 1 is 50% faster then the Watch 0 but has identical RAM and storage specs. 3 years seems a bit early for Apple to be dropping support.

  
• Reply 16 of 26

  GeorgeBMac Posts: 11,421member

  June 10, 2018 12:58PM

  netmage said:

  The Apple Watch 1 is 50% faster then the Watch 0 but has identical RAM and storage specs. 3 years seems a bit early for Apple to be dropping support.

  Ram and storage are only two of the specs.   There are, apparently other things that made it a non-candidate for upgrades.

  In prior threads a developer mentioned its limitations running native, third party apps.   And, since it is excluded from the Apple heart study, we can assume that it's heart rate sensor has limitations...
  
  The fact is:   first generation products tend to shorter lifespans than mature products as their rate of growth and obsolescence is much higher.
  

  
• Reply 17 of 26

  stanhope Posts: 160member

  September 17, 2018 2:38PM

  GeorgeBMac said:

  While Apple is progressing well on the exercise front, they could still do much, much better.

  Essentially, they cater to the mainstream crowd of casual exercisers who mostly care about the basics rather than serious athletes who want more and need more.  They could do that by either developing the apps themselves or by better supporting third party developers to provide the muscle power needed.

  
  

  One of the siimplest (from the user standard point not the developer's) is the face:   while running you need to make quick glances to determine the metric you are interested in.   But, instead of enabling the user to see one or two large  block letters showing the preferred metric (split pace, heart rate, time & distance, etc...) that are easy to see & read with a quick glance during adverse conditions and strenuous exertion we get tiny little letters.  The most customization you can do is eliminate some of the information -- but that doesn't make the remaining information any easier to see...

  
  

  Another enhancement would be improved post workout analysis.  A serious runner is interested in heart rate, elevation, pace and so on -- as well as the interaction between them.   But, instead of meaningful analysis we get tiny, worthless little graphs and averages that are mostly for show...  For example:   because I'm recovering from an injury and getting back into running again, during yesterday's run I had to take several walking breaks during the run.  While I know that my pace and my heart rate were high while I was running, all Apple showed me were a tiny, worthless graph and a bunch of worthless averages....
  

  
  

  Basically, that all is because Apple is relying on casual exercisers for design advice.   They need to bring in some serious athletes and find out what they need and want so we don't have to take off our Apple Watch and strap on a Garmin when we exercise or run.
  

  
  Some people can never be satisfied.  Did you look at the list of enhancements?  Yet you still want Savile Row when you are more likely a macy’s...no penney’s target.  here’s an idea, if it does not meet your lofty standards, don’t buy it.  I doubt it will be a blip on the apparently strong demand for the watch.
• Reply 18 of 26

  svanstrom Posts: 702member

  September 17, 2018 2:50PM

  GeorgeBMac said:

  While Apple is progressing well on the exercise front, they could still do much, much better.

  Essentially, they cater to the mainstream crowd of casual exercisers who mostly care about the basics rather than serious athletes who want more and need more.  They could do that by either developing the apps themselves or by better supporting third party developers to provide the muscle power needed.

  
  

  One of the siimplest (from the user standard point not the developer's) is the face:   while running you need to make quick glances to determine the metric you are interested in.   But, instead of enabling the user to see one or two large  block letters showing the preferred metric (split pace, heart rate, time & distance, etc...) that are easy to see & read with a quick glance during adverse conditions and strenuous exertion we get tiny little letters.  The most customization you can do is eliminate some of the information -- but that doesn't make the remaining information any easier to see...

  
  

  Another enhancement would be improved post workout analysis.  A serious runner is interested in heart rate, elevation, pace and so on -- as well as the interaction between them.   But, instead of meaningful analysis we get tiny, worthless little graphs and averages that are mostly for show...  For example:   because I'm recovering from an injury and getting back into running again, during yesterday's run I had to take several walking breaks during the run.  While I know that my pace and my heart rate were high while I was running, all Apple showed me were a tiny, worthless graph and a bunch of worthless averages....
  

  
  

  Basically, that all is because Apple is relying on casual exercisers for design advice.   They need to bring in some serious athletes and find out what they need and want so we don't have to take off our Apple Watch and strap on a Garmin when we exercise or run.
  

  Here you go again, basically making stuff up just to have something to complain about.
  
  Guess what… The AW is NOT a device targeting professional athletes. If the AW doesn’t fit your specific flavor of hectic life as a professional athlete, then I suggest that you buy devices targeting your demographic.
  
  As far as the size of the information I’ve never had a problem with it, and I’m even considering that perhaps I should get glasses. Have you had your eyesight check recently? (Serious question, because if I can see the information, then most people should be able to.)
  
  As far as complaining about the apps: Just get other apps, that is, ffs, the whole point with there being apps; to get more features. I use several health apps, but that doesn’t mean that I feel that I have to complain about the included one; they serve a purpose, and these other ones give me the data how I want/prefer it. 
• Reply 19 of 26

  crowley Posts: 10,453member

  September 17, 2018 3:10PM

  Does the support for Siri Shortcuts mean you can potentially have shortcuts that run on the Watch itself, or does it just trigger shortcuts on an iOS device?  If the former, that's pretty cool.

  edited September 2018
• Reply 20 of 26

  albegarc Posts: 50member

  September 17, 2018 3:31PM

  Looks like a great update por the AW. It is suposed to be avilable por download today but I don´t know the time for that.