Apple Watch Series 9 A crucial piece in the closed-loop ecosystem

Apple Watch Series 9 is a vital component of the closed-loop system

From the first appearance of the Apple Watch to the present, this companion that lives on people’s wrists has been around for nine years. From initially being questioned as an electronic toy, to becoming a health partner on more and more wrists, and eventually becoming the smartwatch with the largest market share, the Apple Watch, in the process of continuous iteration, is gradually entering our lives and changing our lifestyles.

The Apple Watch Series 9 is the first product unveiled at this year’s Apple Autumn Event. Its most prominent updates this year can be summarized in three points:

As you can see, most of these visible updates are thanks to the addition of new hardware, especially the latest S9 SiP. It is equipped with 5.6 billion transistors, which is a 60% increase compared to the S8 chip, and it also has a brand-new quad-core neural network engine inside, with machine learning speed that is up to twice as fast. However, on top of this, there are many highlights of the Apple Watch Series 9, especially with the help of watchOS 10. The brand-new Apple Watch Series 9 not only refreshes the watch, but also makes the connection between various devices within the Apple ecosystem even closer.

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Whether you are an existing Apple Watch user or a new friend who just started wearing the watch, it is worth exploring the watchOS 10 carried by the Apple Watch Series 9 carefully. First of all, the new system changes the previous usage logic, and you can activate the brand-new widgets by swiping up the digital crown or swiping up the screen from the bottom. They exist in a stacked form, and you can easily access information such as weather, schedule, and activity level that needs to be mastered at the first time just by sliding.

The Apple Watch Series 9 adopts the latest “stacked widgets”.

While adding stacked widgets, some usage logic of Apple Watch has also changed. The activation method of “Control Center” has been changed from “swiping up from the bottom” to “pressing the side button”, and the background switching has been changed from “pressing the side button” to “double-clicking the digital crown”. If you frequently used these modules before, you will need to adapt to the new operating logic of watchOS 10.

Apple Watch Series 9

This new set of usage logic can satisfy users’ needs for “clean dials” and “complex functions” at the same time. I can enjoy a clean and stylish dial directly, and when I need to know certain high-frequency functions, I can also complete it through the convenient operation of “swiping”, which will greatly improve efficiency.

“Snoopy” dial is currently the dial I mainly use

Thanks to watchOS 10, I am more willing to use clean and stylish dials. The “Snoopy” and “Color Palette” dials added in watchOS 10 have captured my heart. The “Color Palette” makes Apple Watch Series 9 more fashionable with rich colors, while the Snoopy dial adds some fun, and Snoopy will interact with the pointers every time it lights up, which is quite cute.

Built-in apps make more use of colors

From the perspective of user experience, many improvements of Apple Watch Series 9 are based on the new operating system watchOS 10: multiple built-in apps have changed from black backgrounds to more realistic and energetic colored backgrounds, which look more vivid and lively; during clicking and scrolling, you can see more realistic glass effects that are closer to the actual environment; the interaction logic of some apps has also changed from a waterfall flow to a card-style interaction, and you can browse more information by swiping the cards…

watchOS 10 uses more card-style interactive logic

watchOS 10 has more “frosted glass effects”

These new improvements make the Apple Watch Series 9 more lightweight and further enhance the fashion attributes of the Apple Watch. The increased number of colorful pages and frosted glass effects also make more complex demands on the graphics performance of the chip. Therefore, the latest generation of Apple Watch Series 9 equipped with S9 SiP is obviously the best carrier for the new system.

Apple Watch Series 9 can recognize voice more efficiently

The performance improvement also brings a dessert update to the Apple Watch – stronger voice recognition capability. According to testing, the Apple Watch Series 9 can recognize what we say more quickly and with higher accuracy. At the same time, the new watch can still maintain a day-long battery life without being affected by stronger performance, more interaction/animations, etc.

The Apple Watch is not only a fashionable accessory on the wrist, but also the best assistant for managing health. In the latest generation of Apple Watch Series 9, there are updates related to “mental health”, which allow everyone to understand their own mental state in a more relaxed and friendly manner.

Due to the increased pressure from complex external environments, mental illness has become the number one problem for modern people. However, people often do not realize the process of developing mental illness, until it is too late after the triggering point emerges. As a device that accompanies us for a long time, the Apple Watch can help users more easily record their mental health conditions and synchronize them to the Health app on the iPhone. Moreover, the experience of using the Apple Watch to record moods is also very easy. Just raise your wrist and perform simple taps based on different situations to complete it.

“Time under sunlight”

Of course, Apple Watch not only provides a “recording” function, but also provides some ways to adjust psychological stress. The Apple Watch Series 9 is equipped with an ambient light sensor, which can record the time under outdoor sunlight. When we are in the sunlight outdoors, the watch will record the corresponding time. By browsing the time under outdoor sunlight, it can help us better adjust our mental health.

Apple’s advantage lies not in the good experience of individual products, but in the clever combination of different devices to form a wonderful ecological closed loop, thereby firmly locking users in their own ecosystem. With the collaboration of Apple Watch Series 9, iPhone 15, and AirPods, the interaction between different devices has become even closer.

Accurate positioning and searching using ultra-wideband chips

For example, when using iPhone 15 and Apple Watch Series 9 at the same time, the internal ultra-wideband chips of both devices can be used for precise positioning. And during the process of approaching the phone, the Apple Watch will help us quickly find the phone through haptic feedback, prompt sounds, and visual guidance markers. Thanks to the large-sized Taptic Engine inside, Apple Watch Series 9 can provide crisp and powerful vibration feedback, which is also one of the attractive factors of Apple Watch.

When participating in outdoor sports, we may forget to record physical training. If you wear Apple Watch Series 9 and use AirPods to listen to music, the watch will automatically determine whether we are exercising and consult us through AirPods whether we want to record the current physical training. At this time, you only need to click the corresponding button to start recording, which is a feature that was not available before.

Apple Watch is the device that is closest to us and is also one of the most attractive products in Apple’s extensive product line. From this year’s Series 9, it can be seen that Apple is leveraging stronger chip performance to add more fashion genes to Apple Watch, and with the clever integration of internal hardware and software, it allows users to connect with other Apple ecosystem devices around them.

Apple Watch is a key piece of the closed-loop ecosystem. Through hardware and software iterations, this wearable device is being given more possibilities and can firmly lock each person within the ecosystem.

Of course, I am also very much looking forward to the upcoming “pinch with two fingers” feature, which is an exclusive new feature of Apple Watch Series 9 and will further enhance the usability of Apple Watch.

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