Watchos 7 was launched on the sidelines of the Apple Watch Series 6.We explore here all the new features of Watchos 7 and the compatible Apple Watch models.

On the occasion of the virtual WWDC 2020 which was held at the end of June, Apple presented Watchos 7, the next major OS update for Apple Watch.

📆 What date was Watchos 7 launched?

Watchos 7 has been available since September 16 in the final version.The update was launched at the same time as the Apple Watch Series 6, the new generation of connected watch from the Apple to the apple.

⌚ What are the Apple Watch compatible with Watchos 7?

Apple is pretty good at the software monitoring of its products.We see it on the smartphones market, its iPhone supported by updates for at least 6 years when the standard is more around two years in the Android ecosystem.When there is no hardware constraint to update a device, Apple generally offers update.

Here is the list of Apple Watch that are entitled to Watchos 7:

It should be noted, however, that on the oldest model (Apple Watch Series 3) Watchos 7 causes series bugs, including untimely restarts.And that it is therefore rather advisable, at this stage, to stay on Watchos 6 if you have not yet updated.

Going back is indeed impossible!Apple Watch under Watchos 7 can be coupled with any iPhone under iOS 14.Find here the list of iPhone compatible with iOS 14 (from the iPhone 6S and all recent iPhone).

🎁 What are the new features brought by Watchos 7?

Most of the features we are going to quote below are available on all Apple Watch under Watchos 7.For questions of material restrictions, some new features are reserved for Apple Watch Series 6.

The dials

The dials are very important on connected watches for reasons both aesthetic and practical.They allow you to personalize your smartwatch so that it is to your liking and that it displays important information in a way that suits the user.

But the choice is limited, and Apple wants to correct the shooting with Watchos 7, which allows you to search and share dial configuration combinations depending on the activities practiced and the lifestyle.They can be changed to envy and simply shared by different means: simple message or email, to download on a website or from the App Store ...

Developers can now display several complications by application on a single dial, thus blowing up a limit of the old versions of the bone.As a reminder, the complications are equivalent to the widgets of smartphones, but dedicates to the Apple Watch.

The dials directly offered by Apple have been reviewed, with more personalization options and simplified access to applications that the user has the most.In addition to the chronograph dial already available, a pro chronograph dial appears.His particuliarity ?It displays a tachometer to calculate the speed of a moving object.The photo dial now has a color filter, while the extra large dial supports the display of a richer complication.

A native sleep tracking function

The anomaly is finally repaired, Apple finally offers a native sleep tracking option with Watchos 7.It was time.Its connected watches already had the sensors necessary for the proper functioning of such a functionality, but so far they were deprived of software solutions directly integrated.Users then had to fall back on third -party applications.

The new tool seems in any case most complete, with all monitoring measures and all sleep management options that are found in competition.What better understand your needs in terms of sleep, find the ideal bedtime or even set up an effective sleep routine.

Thanks to the accelerometer that equips the Apple Watch, the micromevements triggered by breathing during sleep are detected.The smartwatch records them and analyzes them in order to calculate the sleep phases and the time spent sleeping every night.Data that can then be consulted in order to better understand how its sleep takes place, and adjust its habits to improve it.

With the Wind Down service, you can indicate the schedule to which you want to go to bed and the one you want to get up.When it is time to sleep, your Apple Watch then automatically goes into mode not disturbing to avoid being caught up in notifications and the brightness of the screen decreases.Background music or a mediation session can also be scheduled.If the battery level is low, the Apple Watch can notify its user that it may be time to recharge it for an hour before the indicated sleeping schedule.

To wake up, you have the choice.Sweet sounds can be played, or you can also count on the silent haptic alarm (vibration of the watch), which has the merit of waking up only you.Your partner can continue to sleep quietly.

New activities

The Exercise application already offered many activity choices, it enriched it with an additional four: sheathing, dance, functional strengthening and recovery.These four new physical activities therefore have a mode dedicated to them to measure with as much precision as possible the heart rate, the bearer movements and all the useful data.

For example for dance, the information collected by the cardiac frequency sensor, the accelerometer and the gyroscope is cut and subjected to an algorithm, which will associate the data with movements and a measurement of the intensity, then estimateThe caloric expenditure of the session.

As usual, it is possible to access all the data presented visually on the mobile application, which is no longer called activity as so far, but has been renamed fitness.It has also been overhauled and is now more complete, clearer and more ordered.

Improved bike navigation

Before Watchos 7, browse a bicycle route thanks to the navigation of plans without going out your smartphone could be a challenge.There was no visual of the management to take, you had to be satisfied with a haptic return to the wrist to find out when to turn.From now on, the routes will be readable directly on the Apple Watch, and you will be notified when you have to perform a special action, such as borrowing stairs or traveling a section on the way.

You have several journeys available, it's up to you to choose the one that suits you best.You can thus avoid strong slopes for example, or on the contrary take the most direct path even if it is difficult to travel.

Watchos 7 teaches us to wash our hands better

The Apple Watch has never worked as well with consumers as since its turn towards health.In this troubled period of COVVI-19 epidemic, Watchos adapts to help us wash our hands more effectively, and thus limit the spread of diseases.

Thanks to motion sensors, at the microphone and a dose of machine learning, an Apple Watch on Watchos 7 is capable of detecting when you are washing your hands.She then triggers a 20 -second timer.If you stop washing your hands before, the connected watch prompts you to continue a little more until reaching the end of the stopwatch.

The frequency and duration of each hand washing are available on the Health Mobile Application, which also has a didactic goal since it explains the importance of washing your hands regularly.

Alerts in the event of prolonged noise exposure

Still in the health field, Watchos 7 also monitors our hearing.It is already possible to measure the level of ambient noise and the duration of exposure to it from Watchos 6, but its successor goes even further in the matter.

When a user listens to audio content with a high noise level and too long, a notification appears to signify the risks of hearing loss that his behavior is eager, with explanations on the long -term hearing loss.

Apple is based on the data of the World Health Organization (WHO) for this functionality, namely that a noise level of 80 decibels for 40 hours per week is acceptable and does not present any risks for hearing,but that we must start to be wary as soon as we exceed these figures.

The health application lists the exposure time at high decibels levels and makes it possible to define a sound level limit not to be exceeded when a helmet or headphones are connected.

Siri always more complete

In terms of vocal assistant, Apple still has progress to make.Everyone agrees that Google Assistant is more effective than Siri, and even Alexa seems to get out of it better in comparisons.Fortunately, he remains Cortana not to wear the donkey's donkey hat.

Anyway, Siri has new features on Apple Watch with the Watchos 7 update.It is now possible to ask him to make a translation from and towards a certain number of languages, as soon on iPhone with iOS 14.The text dictation is also improved, while the announcement of messages with Siri arrives on connected watches.

New complications

Siri's shortcuts, which allow you to program one or more tasks to be launched quickly, are now available on the Apple Watch in the form of complications.

Other features as a remote control of the camera and watch also join the ranks of the services present in the form of complications.

New mobility measures

These are above all for medical staff for the evaluation of the capacity of patients to move with a handicap or if they are old.The measurements concerned are: Cardio fitness low intensity, walking speed, descent speed of the stairs, speed of ascent of the stairs, distance traveled on foot in six minutes, time spent in double support, length of the steps and asymmetry.