The Apple Watch will get more fitness tracking with watchOS 7, consisting of metrics for dance, practical strength training, core training, and cooldown activities. The Maps app is adding support for cycling instructions, and Apples smartwatch will now automatically identify when youre cleaning your hands and offer a 20-second timer.
There are other small-but-useful enhancements like on-device dictation– making for much quicker speech to text– and translation support with Siri. Apples website has the full list of new watchOS techniques, and beginning today you can check them out yourself. Simply keep in mind that, as always, beta means beta and its probably best not to install the watchOS 7 public beta on your main Apple Watch if you rely on it daily.
The watchOS 7 upgrade includes brand-new watchfaces, plus simpler ways of sharing them between friends and downloading custom designs from the web. However the most significant addition this year, and this ones worthy of a finally, is sleep tracking. watchOS 7 comes with a new Sleep app thatll show you the number of hours youre asleep each night– though Apple isnt yet diving into the quality of sleep and various cycles.
Apple has already launched beta releases for its next big updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS. And today, its adding watchOS to the general public beta mix for the very first time.
