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(Pocket-lint) - Apple tree has announced a trio of new Watch models, including a refreshed Sentinel SE, Sentinel Series eight, and an all-new Apple Picket Ultra. It has too released watchOS nine for existing models.

Here'south everything you need to know about it, including its features and a list of compatible models.

WatchOS nine release date

Available: 12 September 2022

Apple announced the side by side major software update for its Watch - watchOS 9 - during its annual developer conference, WWDC, in June. A subsequent beta for developers was fabricated available immediately afterwards, followed by a public beta in July that anyone could test.

It has now released the total release version on 12 September 2022.

WatchOS ix: Which Apple tree Watches are compatible?

watchOS nine compatibility: Apple Watch Series four and newer (including the SE)

The latest Apple tree Picket Series 7 and fifty-fifty the Apple Watch SE (2020) are shoo-ins to get watchOS ix.

The Apple Spotter Series iii - a four-year-old smartwatch - is on the chopping block and won't exist uniform with watchOS ix. The Apple Picket Series four, Apple Sentry Serial five, and Apple Watch Series 6 are eligible for watchOS 9, however.

WatchOS nine features

Here are some of the highlights of watchOS ix.

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Workout

A number of updates come to the Workout app with watchOS 9, including the power to run across more than when you lot're working out by turning the Digital Crown.

Y'all'll can too customise your workouts by tailoring work and recovery intervals, and Heart Rate Zones are automatically calculated and personalised using your wellness data.

Other Workout updates include Multisport that transitions between swimming, running and cycling, the addition of Kickboard (swimming with a float) being automatically recognised and there are multiple running updates also.

The watchOS 9 software update gives you instant feedback on your pace with dynamic pacing to help you reach goals, and you can race your route also, as well equally add Stride Length, Footing Contact Fourth dimension and Vertical Oscillation to your Workout Views.

Other changes to the Workout app include an enhanced workout summary and the introduction of a metric called Running Power.

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Health

Some changes are coming to the Health app in iOS xvi and watchOS nine, including a Medications section that help yous continue track and monitor your medications. You lot'll be able to log them directly from Reminders, and from your wrist.

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Sleep

Finally, there are some decent updates coming to sleep tracking on the Apple Scout with watchOS 9. The software brings REM, Core and Deep sleep details to the Apple tree Spotter, also as when you were awake, offering a graph like Fitbit devices offer.

You'll likewise be able to track your sleep over time with comparison charts in the Health app on your iPhone, assuasive yous to see metrics like center rate and respiratory rate.

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Watch Faces

As with all major software updates, there are some new Watch Faces with watchOS ix. There are multiple faces including Metropolitan, Playtime and Astronomy. There'southward also a Lunar face that celebrates calendar timekeeping using phases of the moon with three different calendars: Chinese, Hebrew and Islamic.

More Watch faces also back up rich complications with watchOS nine and the Portraits face is getting enhancements too, allowing you to put your canis familiaris or cat on information technology and use the editing style to add a tint to the background layers of a photograph.

On the Modular Compact, Modular and X‑Large faces, you lot'll also be able to customise your watch face with a range of colours and gradients.

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Family Setup

Some changes are coming with watchOS 9 that offering new fetaures for kids with Apple Watches that don't have an iPhone.

For example, they volition have access to the Podcasts app, the Home app for controlling HomePod speakers and smart home accessories and they can too admission home keys and hotel keys in Wallet.

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Accessibility

Apple Lookout man already offers some great accessibiity features but watchOS 9 brings the choice to double pinch to start a workout or take a photo.

There's too a characteristic called Apple Watch Mirroring that streams your Apple Lookout man to your iPhone and allows you to fully command information technology using assistive features on iPhone like Switch Command and Voice Control.

Notifications

Notifications on the Apple Lookout are changing slightly with watchOS 9. When you're using your Picket, notifications come up through as banners. When your wrist is downwards, notifications come up through as full-screen.

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Calendar

The Agenda app on Apple Lookout man is also getting some new features with watchOS nine. You can finally create new events direct from your Lookout and you lot can navigate to specific days and weeks more easily through the View Options card.

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Apple Fitness+

New trainer call-outs are existence added to Fitness+, then y'all'll see Intensity Metrics that are called out on screen, whether that's iPhone or a compatible Television that you've AirPlayed your workout to.

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All the details on the side by side version of the Apple tree Scout operating organisation, watchOS vii.

Trainers too provide rowing, cycling and treadmill guidance with watchOS nine, such as strokes per minute for rowing and cadence for cycling.

Torso temperature readings

Although this won't be available on former Apple Sentinel models (or the new SE), the Apple Lookout Series 8 comes with a temperature sensor that tin detect changes in body temperature.

Car crash detection

The new Series 8, Watch SE and Watch Ultra also feature motorcar crash detection, which will warning emergency services automatically if yous find yourself in a serious motorcar accident.

Writing by Britta O'Boyle.