By Apple today introduced the Apple Watch Series 9, bringing new features to the world’s best-selling watch and achieving a significant environmental milestone.
Apple Watch Series 9 runs watchOS 10, which delivers redesigned apps, the new Smart Stack, new watch faces, new cycling and hiking features, and tools to support mental health. For the first time, customers can choose a carbon-neutral option for any Apple Watch, representing a significant milestone toward Apple 2030: Apple’s plan to be carbon-neutral across its entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030.Today, you can order the new Apple Watch lineup, and it will be available beginning Friday, September 22.
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Cutting-Edge Features of the Apple Watch Series 9
“Apple Watch is an indispensable companion that helps millions of people with their health, fitness, communications, and safety,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer. “We’re introducing our best Apple Watch lineup, with incredible new capabilities and technological advancements, including a new double tap gesture, brighter display, on-device Siri, as well as our first-ever carbon neutral products. Whether users are upgrading from earlier models or buying their first, there’s never been a more compelling time to experience Apple Watch.”
Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, stated, “At Apple, we commit to making products customers love and protecting the planet simultaneously, and this year, we achieved a key milestone toward our Apple 2030 goal. Our first carbon neutral products exemplify our unique approach at Apple, drastically reducing carbon emissions from materials, electricity, and transportation through innovation and design.”
Gesture
Innovations such as the Digital Crown and Taptic Engine — along with gestures like tap, swipe, wrist raise, and cover to mute — make the Apple Watch simple and intuitive to use. With a new double tap gesture, users can easily control the Apple Watch Series 9 using just one hand and without touching the display. Users can tap the index finger and thumb of their watch hand together twice to quickly and conveniently perform many of the most common actions on the Apple Watch Series 9. Double tap controls the primary button in an app, enabling users to stop a timer, play and pause music, or snooze an alarm.
The gesture allows users to answer and end a phone call, and even to take a photo with the Camera Remote on the Apple Watch. Double tap will also open the Smart Stack from the watch face, and another double tap will scroll through widgets in the stack. The faster Neural Engine in Apple Watch Series 9 enables this new double tap gesture, processing data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and optical heart sensor with a new machine learning algorithm.
The algorithm detects the unique signature of tiny wrist movements and changes in blood flow when the index finger and thumb perform a double tap. The double-tap gesture will be available in a software update next month.
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Display
The power-efficient S9 SiP and advanced display architecture increase the maximum brightness of the Apple Watch Series 9 display up to 2000 nits — double that of Series 8 — making it even easier to read text in bright sunlight. For dark rooms or early mornings, users can also lower the display to just one nit so as not to disturb people close by.
On-device Siri with the Ability to Access and Log Health Data
For the first time on Apple Watch, Siri requests can be processed on the device. For requests that do not require information from the internet, such as starting a workout or setting a timer, Siri does not rely on Wi-Fi or cellular networks, resulting in quicker and more reliable responses. The powerful Neural Engine also makes dictation up to 25 percent more accurate than the Apple Watch Series 8.
On-device processing ensures privacy and security, and now users can use Siri to access data from the Health app for health- and fitness-related queries.For example, a user can ask how many hours of sleep they had the previous night, for progress on closing their Activity rings, or about their blood glucose level if they have a connected monitor. Users can also make Siri requests on Apple Watch Series 9 to log health data such as their weight, period, or medications taken.
Precision Finding and HomePod Integration
The ability to use Apple Watch to find iPhones is a favorite user feature. Now, the S9 SiP includes a second-generation Ultra Wideband (UWB) chip to enable Precision Finding for the iPhone 15 family, which has the same chip. Precision Finding provides distance and direction, as well as visual, haptic, and audio guidance to a misplaced iPhone, even if it is in a different room.
Carbon Neutral Models
Select case and band combinations of Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Ultra 2, and Apple Watch SE are Apple’s first-ever carbon-neutral products. As part of Apple 2030, the carbon footprint of the Apple Watch has been significantly decreased. Emissions were reduced from the three biggest sources of greenhouse gases — materials, electricity, and transportation.
High-quality carbon credits from nature-based projects offset the small amount of remaining emissions.Apple redesigned the packaging of the Apple Watch to be 100 percent fiber-based, and a new logo on the packaging indicates models that achieve carbon neutrality.
Bands
Apple is introducing FineWoven, a luxurious and durable micro twill made of 68 percent post-consumer recycled content that has significantly lower carbon emissions compared to leather. FineWoven has a suede-like feel and is available with the Magnetic Link and Modern Buckle bands. Starting today, Apple will no longer use leather in any new Apple product, including watch bands.. All new Apple Watch Sport Loops are carbon neutral.
