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CTOnews.com Sept. 13, Apple announced the official release of the watchOS 9 today, bringing a new dial, an enhanced physical training App, a sleep stage, a new compass App, and a new drug App.

"official release of Apple watchOS 9: supports four new dials, drug tracking, etc. (with updates)"

Apple today launched watchOS 9, bringing many new features and experience enhancements to the world's leading wearable operating system. Apple Watch users now have more dial options and more complex features to display more information and enhance the personalized experience. The updated physical training App provides more advanced indicators, views and training experiences inspired by elite athletes to help users improve their training level. The sleep phase function is introduced in the sleep App to give it a deeper understanding of the body's condition. The new App allows users to easily and rigorously manage, understand and track drug use.

The expanded new dial option watchOS 9 introduces four new dials: the "Moon Phase" dial, which depicts the relationship between the Gregorian calendar and the lunar calendar (commonly used by Chinese, Islamic, Hebrew, etc.); the "Happy hour" dial, a unique dynamic work of art jointly created by Apple Watch and artist Joi Fulton; and the "Metropolis" dial, which features classic typeface fonts and changes in style when the user rotates the digital crown. There is also a completely reproduced "astronomical" dial with new star map functions and cloud data functions.

WatchOS 9 introduces enhanced modern features on some of the most classic dials, such as the "practical" dial, the "minimalist" dial and the "fitness record pointer" dial, adding background color editing to the "module" and "compact module" dials, as well as personalized features for the "big text" dial. " The Portrait dial can show depth of field in more photos such as cats, dogs and landscapes, while the California dial and typography dial add Chinese characters to choose from. All Apple Watch users using watchOS 9 (including those with non-Nike models) will be given the opportunity to use all Nike dials for the first time, including the upcoming new color "rebound" dial.

Focus mode now allows users to select a dial for a particular focus mode, and when the user turns on the focus mode on iPhone, the Apple Watch dial automatically switches, such as displaying a photo dial in personal focus mode to help users better focus on the moment.

The "lunar phase" dial depicts the relationship between the solar calendar and the lunar calendar.

The update of physical fitness training App as one of the most popular App on Apple Watch, physical training App ushered in the update, providing users with richer measurement indicators and new exercise experience to help users achieve fitness goals. In the familiar training process interface, users can now rotate the digital crown to switch between a variety of concise and easy-to-read physical training views to view important indicators of different training methods. The heart rate range based on personal health data can be used to monitor the intensity of physical training. The physical training App in watchOS 9 introduces a custom training program for interval training, which can be used to create a systematic physical training consisting of training and interval rest. Users can add new reminders, including pace, running power, heart rate and stride frequency, to guide themselves to physical training.

The function of heart rate interval in physical training App can now be used to monitor training intensity.

For Triathlon enthusiasts, the physical fitness training App now supports multi-event physical training types, uses motion sensors to recognize movement patterns, and can automatically switch between swimming, cycling and running. After each fitness training is completed, the fitness App on iPhone will also provide more detailed information and interactive charts through the redesigned summary interface for a more accurate analysis of all physical training programs.

For Triathlon and Ironman enthusiasts, the physical training App now supports multi-event physical training types, automatically switching between swimming, cycling and running.

Updates for runners have long been a powerful tool for runners, while watchOS 9 brings more data and features to help track users' running efficiency. New running posture measurements, including step size, touchdown time and vertical amplitude, can be added to the physical training view. These indicators are also displayed in the summary of the Fitness App and in the Health App, allowing users to view diachronic trends and get information from patterns.

In addition, the new pace feature allows users to choose the distance and time goal to complete a run, thus calculating the pace needed to achieve the goal. During the physical training period, the user can adjust the exercise according to the speed reminders and indicators provided by the watch. With the "race route" feature, which will be launched later this year, users can race against their best or latest results on the most commonly used routes and receive speed instructions during the exercise process.

Users can race against their best or latest results on the most commonly used routes and receive speed instructions during the exercise process.

Swimming function enhances swimming pool swimming physical training adds a floating board as a stroke, Apple Watch's sensor fusion will automatically detect whether users are swimming with a floating board, and include this stroke in the physical training summary, while showing the swimming distance. Swimmers can now use the SWOLF value to track their efficiency, which is calculated by combining the number of strokes per trip with the number of seconds. Users can view their SWOLF averages for each group in the physical training summary.

Redesigned Compass App the completely redesigned Compass App displays more depth information and introduces a new scalable view, including a mixed view that displays both analog and digital views. Rotate the digital crown to display another view, including latitude, longitude, altitude and slope information, as well as a directional view that shows the guide point and backtracking function.

The backtracking feature uses GPS data to create routes that users have taken, which is especially useful when users get lost or lose their way and need help to find a return route. This function can also be automatically turned on in the background when the user enters the wild area. Users can use the "compass point" function to quickly and easily mark locations or important locations in the App. Click the guide point icon to place the destination, and select a destination to view the direction and approximate distance of the destination.

The completely redesigned compass App provides the Compass heading Point function, which can quickly and easily mark locations or important locations directly within the App.

Insight into sleep Apple Watch's sleep App experience already allows users to set sleep aids and sleep timings, as well as tracking sleep status to help achieve sleep goals. WatchOS 9's sleep tracking features add sleep stages to give users a better understanding of their sleep. Apple Watch uses signals from acceleration sensors and heart rate sensors to detect whether users are in REM sleep, core sleep or deep sleep. Users will see sleep stage data in the sleep App on Apple Watch, view more details such as sleep time, and see more indicators, such as heart rate and respiratory rate, in the sleep comparison chart in the iPhone Health App.

The machine learning model is trained and confirmed according to the clinical gold standard-polysomnography, and it is one of the wearable devices with the largest number of subjects and the most diversified. Since sleep science is still in the exploratory stage, users in the United States will be able to contribute their sleep stage data in the future by "studying" App's "Apple Heart and exercise study".

With the introduction of the sleep phase, Apple Watch can now estimate whether users are in REM sleep, core sleep or deep sleep to gain further insight into sleep.

The new medication App experience on medication Apple Watch and iPhone allows users to create drug lists, establish schedules and reminders, and view drug information in the Health App, helping users manage and track drugs, vitamins and nutrients they take. The new drug App on Apple Watch allows users to easily and rigorously track drug use anytime, anywhere.

Whether you need to take it multiple times a day, once a week, or on demand, users can establish a personalized schedule for each drug and set reminders to help users take the medicine on time.

The new medication App experience on Apple Watch and iPhone helps users manage and track the drugs, vitamins and nutrients they take.

The new menstrual tracking feature in iOS 16 and watchOS 9 alerts users who use menstrual tracking when there are possible deviations between menstrual records and predicted results, such as irregular menstruation, low frequency, prolonged menstruation, or persistent drip bleeding, as such deviations may be a sign of potential health conditions.

With the new introduction of iOS 16 and watchOS 9, users of "menstruation tracking" will receive a reminder of possible deviations in their menstrual history, such as irregular menstruation, low frequency, prolonged menstruation, or persistent bleeding.

Privacy is crucial in the design and development of all Apple functions. When the user locks the phone with a password, touch ID or face ID, all health and exercise data in the health App will be encrypted, except for the information in the medical first aid card. Any healthy App data backed up to iCloud will also be encrypted and protected during transmission or when stored on the Apple server. When the default double authentication is turned on in iOS and watchOS and the password is used, the data synchronized to iCloud by the healthy App is encrypted end-to-end, which means that Apple cannot decrypt and read the data.

Other watchOS 9 newer low-power modes are designed to extend battery life and maintain core Apple Watch functions such as activity tracking and fall detection, while disabling or restricting the use of specific sensors and background heart rate detection and round-the-clock display.

Users can now use the international roaming package to stay connected to the cellular network when traveling abroad.

The redesigned notification will serve as a reminder while reducing interference to the user, displaying only a thin banner when the user is actively using Apple Watch.

Later this year, home settings will support home App, which allows you to invite your children as members to control HomePod and smart home devices. They will also be able to use the home keys and hotel keys in the wallet.

With the new Quick Action feature on Apple Watch, users with upper limb disabilities can use the gesture of two fingers to accomplish more, including answering or hanging up the phone, taking pictures, playing or pausing the media content in the "playing" App, and starting, pausing or continuing physical training.

For people with physical and sports disabilities, with Apple Watch mirroring, Apple Watch is easier to use than ever before. With the help of this feature, users can control Apple Watch through paired iPhone. Users can use Apple Watch mirroring and auxiliary functions such as "voice control" and "handover control" on iPhone to use Apple Watch--, which means they can use voice, voice commands, head tracking and external "Made for iPhone" devices as alternative ways to "tap" Apple Watch's display.

The QWERTY keyboard on Apple Watch Series 7, Apple Watch Series 8, and Apple Watch Ultra now supports French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, Latin America).

The new Calendar App allows you to create new schedules directly from Apple Watch. In addition to the update list, daily and monthly views, users can also access the new weekly view to support scrolling through more calendars.

Cardiopulmonary recovery is a practical health index and can be used as a weather vane of cardiovascular health. Apple Watch now provides estimates of cardiopulmonary recovery after physical training such as outdoor walking, running or hiking, even if the physical training does not reach its peak intensity. Users can track this indicator for a long time through healthy App.

Starting from the launch date, watchOS 9 will be available as a free software update for Apple Watch Series 4 and subsequent models, and will be paired with iPhone 8 and subsequent models running iOS 16 or iPhone SE (second generation) and subsequent models.

Some of the functions may only be applicable to some regions or languages, or some watches.

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