September 7, 2022
PRESS RELEASE
Apple reveals Apple Watch Sequence 8 and the brand new Apple Watch SE
Apple Watch Sequence 8 delivers best-in-class well being options, together with an progressive temperature sensor that permits superior options for ladies’s well being, and Crash Detection for extreme automotive crashes
The redesigned Apple Watch SE delivers the core Apple Watch expertise at a brand new beginning worth
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at this time launched Apple Watch Sequence 8 and the brand new Apple Watch SE, which convey groundbreaking know-how and efficiency, and vital security improvements to the 2 best-selling smartwatches. Apple Watch Sequence 8 options the beloved design of Apple Watch, together with a massive, All the time-On Retina show and a powerful crack-resistant entrance crystal. With all-day 18-hour battery life, Apple Watch Sequence 8 builds on best-in-class well being and security options just like the ECG app and fall detection by introducing temperature-sensing capabilities, retrospective ovulation estimates, Crash Detection, and worldwide roaming. The brand new Apple Watch SE delivers the core Apple Watch expertise, together with Exercise monitoring, excessive and low coronary heart fee notifications, and Emergency SOS, in addition to the brand new Crash Detection function and a very redesigned again case that completely matches the three basic case finishes, all at a extra inexpensive worth of $249 (US). Each fashions are powered by watchOS 9, introducing new and extra customizable watch faces like Lunar and Metropolitan, an enhanced Exercise app, sleep phases, a first-of-its-kind AFib Historical past function, and an all-new Medicines app.
Apple Watch Sequence 8 and Apple Watch SE can be found to order at this time, with availability starting Friday, September 16.
“We hear from prospects how Apple Watch helps them keep linked with family members, be extra energetic, and dwell more healthy lives,” stated Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief working officer. “Apple Watch Sequence 8 reinforces our dedication in these areas with the addition of pioneering know-how, whereas Apple Watch SE brings superior core options at a brand new beginning worth. Powered by watchOS 9, the most effective smartwatches ship extra capabilities than ever earlier than.”
Wrist Temperature Sensing for Ladies’s Well being
The menstrual cycle is a crucial marker of well being, and lots of physicians contemplate it an important signal. Apple Watch Sequence 8 options progressive new temperature-sensing capabilities that give girls additional insights into their well being, designed with the identical privateness protections as with all different well being knowledge.1
Apple Watch Sequence 8 takes a singular method to temperature sensing with a two-sensor design — one sensor on the again of the watch, nearest the pores and skin, and one other just below the show — decreasing bias from the skin setting.
Nighttime wrist temperature could be a good indicator of total physique temperature. The sensors in Apple Watch Sequence 8 pattern the wrist temperature throughout sleep each 5 seconds and measure adjustments as small as 0.1° C. Within the Well being app, customers can see nightly shifts in baseline temperature, which will be attributable to train, jet lag, and even sickness.2
Using the brand new temperature-sensing capabilities in Apple Watch Sequence 8, customers can obtain retrospective ovulation estimates. Figuring out when ovulation has occurred will be useful for household planning, and Apple Watch Sequence 8 makes it simple and handy by offering these estimates within the Well being app. Temperature sensing additionally permits improved interval predictions.
Moreover, with iOS 16 and watchOS 9, all Cycle Monitoring customers can now obtain a notification if their logged cycle historical past reveals a potential deviation, corresponding to irregular, rare, or extended intervals, and protracted recognizing, which will be signs of underlying well being situations.
Crash Detection
To allow Crash Detection, Apple developed a complicated sensor-fusion algorithm that leverages a brand new, extra highly effective gyroscope and accelerometer on Apple Watch, which now has the best dynamic vary accelerometer in any smartwatch. To create the algorithm, knowledge was collected from these new movement sensors at skilled crash take a look at labs with widespread passenger automobiles in simulated real-world accidents, together with head-on, rear-end, side-impact, and rollovers. Along with movement knowledge, Crash Detection makes use of the barometer, GPS, and the microphone on iPhone as inputs to detect the distinctive patterns that may point out whether or not a extreme crash has taken place.
When Apple Watch detects a extreme automotive crash, the system will test in with the consumer and dial emergency companies if they’re unresponsive after a 10-second countdown. Emergency responders will obtain the consumer’s system location, which can also be shared with the consumer’s emergency contacts. When mixed, Crash Detection on Apple Watch and iPhone work seamlessly to get customers assist effectively. When a extreme automotive crash is detected, the emergency companies name interface will seem on Apple Watch, as it’s most definitely to be in nearer proximity to the consumer, whereas the decision is positioned via iPhone whether it is in vary for the very best connection.
Low Energy Mode
To maintain customers linked for even longer, a brand new Low Energy Mode can prolong battery life to succeed in as much as 36 hours for Apple Watch Sequence 8 with iPhone current.3 This new mode briefly disables or limits choose sensors and options, together with the All the time-On Retina show, exercise autostart, coronary heart well being notifications, and extra.
watchOS 9
The newest software program brings new options and enhanced experiences to the world’s main wearable working system:
- With worldwide roaming coming later this fall, customers can keep linked to a mobile community whereas touring overseas. Plans will be prolonged to Apple Watch from iPhone for little or no extra price and might be obtainable with over 30 carriers worldwide.4
- Customers who’re recognized with AFib can activate the FDA-cleared AFib Historical past5 function and entry vital data, together with an estimate of how incessantly their coronary heart rhythm reveals indicators of AFib, offering deeper insights into their situation. Customers will obtain notifications with an estimate from the earlier week and still have entry to an in depth historical past within the Well being app on iPhone, together with way of life elements which will affect AFib, like sleep, alcohol consumption, and train. As well as, customers can obtain a PDF from the Well being app on iPhone that particulars the historical past of their AFib and way of life elements, which may simply be shared with medical doctors and care suppliers for extra knowledgeable conversations. The primary-of-its-kind AFib Historical past function in watchOS 9 has obtained numerous native clearances and approvals from well being authorities all over the world, and might be obtainable in additional than 100 nations and territories, together with the US, Australia,6 Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, Mexico, South Africa, the UK, and extra.
- The fully redesigned Compass app in watchOS 9 surfaces extra in-depth data and three distinct views. The app shows a brand new hybrid view that concurrently reveals each an analog compass dial and a digital view. Turning the Digital Crown reveals an extra view that features latitude, longitude, elevation, and incline, in addition to an orienteering view exhibiting Compass Waypoints and Backtrack. Backtrack makes use of GPS knowledge to create a path exhibiting the place the consumer has been, which is beneficial in the event that they get misplaced or disoriented and need assistance retracing their steps. It could actually activate mechanically within the background when off the grid. Compass Waypoints are a fast and handy option to mark a location or focal point straight within the app. Tapping the Compass Waypoint icon drops a waypoint. Choosing one supplies a focused view of the route of the waypoint and an approximation of how far-off it’s.
- The Exercise app in watchOS 9 contains new in-session views, corresponding to Segments, Splits, and Elevation, that supply extra exact exercise knowledge. Customers can even enhance their coaching with superior exercise experiences, together with Coronary heart Fee Zones, Customized Exercises, Pacer, and, coming later this 12 months, Race Route. For triathlons or actions with any sequence of swimming, biking, or working, the brand new Multisport exercise makes use of autodetection to simply swap between exercises and information transition instances. watchOS 9 additionally brings extra knowledge and options to assist observe how effectively customers run. New working type metrics, together with Stride Size, Floor Contact Time, and Vertical Oscillation, can all be added as metrics on Exercise Views.
- Sleep monitoring in watchOS 9 supplies much more insights with the introduction of sleep phases. Apple Watch makes use of indicators from the accelerometer and coronary heart fee sensor to estimate when customers are in REM, Core, or Deep sleep. Sleep stage knowledge will be considered straight on Apple Watch within the Sleep app, and customers can view extra detailed data within the Well being app on iPhone, together with interactive sleep phases charts, in addition to time asleep alongside coronary heart fee or respiratory fee, in sleep comparability charts.
- The brand new Medicines expertise on Apple Watch and iPhone helps customers handle and observe their drugs, nutritional vitamins, and dietary supplements, permitting them to create a drugs record, arrange schedules and reminders, and examine data on their drugs within the Well being app.7
Apple Watch Sequence 8 Lineup
Apple Watch Sequence 8 might be obtainable throughout a spread of case finishes, colours, and band sorts to suit quite a lot of private types. Apple Watch Sequence 8 is available in aluminum and stainless-steel circumstances in two sizes, 41mm and 45mm, and is suitable with all bands. Aluminum case colours for Apple Watch Sequence 8 embrace starlight, midnight, silver, and (PRODUCT)RED, whereas the stainless-steel case gives silver, graphite, and gold. With Apple Watch Studio, Apple Watch Sequence 8 will be paired with any obtainable band in the identical assortment.
Apple Watch Nike and Apple Watch Hermès additionally debut new bands and watch faces this fall. Nike has vibrant new Sport Band colours and a brand new Sport Loop with the “Simply Do It” brand woven proper into the band. Beginning this fall, any Apple Watch consumer working watchOS 9 — even these with out a Nike mannequin — will have the ability to entry all of the Nike watch faces, together with the contemporary colours coming to the Bounce face.
Apple Watch Hermès introduces two new bands: H Diagonal, which creates a sporty sample of the Hermès H with lots of of microperforations, and Gourmette Metallic, which encompasses a polished stainless-steel chain and noir leather-based wrapping twice across the wrist. A whimsical new Hermès watch face known as Fortunate Horse fantastically enhances the brand new bands and celebrates the equestrian roots of the home with an animated horse that sleeps when the wrist is down and comes alive when it’s raised.
Apple Watch SE
The brand new Apple Watch SE delivers superior options at a brand new low worth, and is an effective way for customers to begin their Apple Watch journey, use with Household Setup, or present to their family members. Highly effective upgrades embrace the S8 SiP superior dual-core processor, the identical processor that’s in Apple Watch Sequence 8 and Apple Watch Extremely, making it 20 p.c quicker than the earlier era, together with Crash Detection and worldwide roaming.
Apple Watch SE maintains the identical case design, however encompasses a redesigned matching again case made from a nylon composite materials, making it lighter than ever. With watchOS 9, Apple Watch SE customers can get pleasure from the advantages of the brand new Compass app along with the improved health and wellness options. Apple Watch SE is out there in 40mm and 44mm aluminum circumstances, in midnight, starlight, and silver finishes, and is suitable with all bands.
Apple Watch and the Setting
Apple Watch Sequence 8 and Apple Watch SE are designed to attenuate their impression on the setting. Each fashions are made with 100% recycled aluminum within the case, 100% recycled tungsten within the Taptic Engine, and 100% recycled uncommon earth parts in all magnets. In a primary for Apple Watch, each fashions function 100% recycled gold — within the plating of a number of printed circuit boards on Apple Watch Sequence 8, and within the plating of the SiP on the brand new Apple Watch SE. Each fashions are freed from mercury, BFRs, PVC, and beryllium. No Apple Watch packaging makes use of outer plastic wrap, and 94 p.c or extra of the packaging is fiber primarily based, bringing Apple nearer to its objective of fully eradicating plastic from its packaging by 2025.
At the moment, Apple is carbon impartial for international company operations, and by 2030, plans to be 100% carbon impartial throughout all the manufacturing provide chains and all product life cycles. Because of this each Apple system offered, from element manufacturing, meeting, transport, buyer use, charging, all over recycling and materials restoration, may have net-zero local weather impression.
Privateness
Privateness is key within the design and growth throughout all of Apple’s options. When a consumer’s iPhone is locked with a passcode, Contact ID, or Face ID, all of their well being and health knowledge within the Well being app — apart from Medical ID — is encrypted. Any Well being knowledge backed as much as iCloud is encrypted each in transit and on Apple servers. When utilizing iOS and watchOS with the default two-factor authentication and a passcode, Well being app knowledge synced to iCloud is encrypted end-to-end, that means that Apple doesn’t have the important thing to decrypt the information and subsequently can’t learn it.
Pricing and Availability
- Prospects in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, the UAE, the UK, the US, and greater than 40 different nations and areas can order Apple Watch Sequence 8 and Apple Watch SE at this time, with availability in shops starting Friday, September 16.
- Apple Watch Sequence 8 begins at $399 (US) and Apple Watch SE begins at $249 (US).
- Apple Watch Nike bands and Apple Watch Hermès bands might be obtainable to order at this time from apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app, with availability in shops starting Friday, September 16.
- watchOS 9 might be obtainable for Apple Watch Sequence 4 and in a while Monday, September 12, and requires iPhone 8 or later and iPhone SE (2nd era) or later working iOS 16. Not all options can be found on all units and in all areas.
- Three months of Apple Health+ are included for patrons who buy Apple Watch Sequence 8, Apple Watch SE, or Apple Watch Extremely, or new purchases of Apple Watch Sequence 4 or later.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At the moment, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s 5 software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower individuals with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 workers are devoted to creating the most effective merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- The Cycle Monitoring app shouldn’t be used as a type of contraception. Knowledge from the Cycle Monitoring app shouldn’t be used to diagnose a well being situation.
- The temperature-sensing function just isn’t a medical system and never supposed to be used in medical analysis, therapy, or for some other medical function.
- Throughout regular use, Apple Watch Sequence 8 can attain as much as 36 hours of battery life with iPhone current.
- Worldwide roaming is out there on Apple Watch SE, Apple Watch Sequence 8, and Apple Watch Extremely, and all mobile fashions from Apple Watch Sequence 5 onward working watchOS 9. See apple.com/watch/mobile for extra data.
- AFib Historical past is meant to be used by individuals ages 22 years or older who’ve been recognized with atrial fibrillation.
- Coming to Australia later this fall.
- The Medicines function shouldn’t be used as an alternative to skilled medical judgment. Further data is out there on treatment labels, however please seek the advice of a healthcare supplier prior to creating any choices associated to non-public well being.
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