Alongside the announcements of iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur, Apple also announced watchOS 7 today during WWDC 2020. The new iteration of watchOS comes with mostly expected changes, including native sleep tracking and watch face sharing.
First let’s talk about sleep tracking. After using multiple third party apps all this time, you will now be able to use sleep tracking natively. The watch will track sleep by tracking how you’re moving, along with some ML to figure out if you’re asleep. When tracking sleep, the display will be turned off, and you can tap on it to view the time.
watchOS 7 adds a new capability to complications. While apps can only have one complication on a watch face, watchOS 7 lets a user put as many complications from a single app as they like. This way, you can customise your watch faces for specific activities that you’re interested in doing. Speaking of complications, the selection screen has also been redesigned in watchOS 7.
New Workout Modes
The Workout app in watchOS 7 is getting new workouts. This includes a new dance workout, functional strength training, and cooldown. Meanwhile, the Activity app has also been redesigned, and renamed to ‘Fitness’. This will also show up on your iPhone with the same name.
Also being added to Apple Watch with watchOS 7 is handwash detection. With this, the Apple Watch automatically detects when you’re washing hands and starts a 20 second timer. This is to ensure that you wash your hands for the proper amount of time.
