today’s apple announced Apple Watch Series 9 features significantly improved performance thanks to the S9 Apple silicon chip, “double tap” hand gestures to interact with your device without touching, precision search for iPhone, and more.
The Series 9 has been internally redesigned, including an all-new Apple silicon chip. It has 60% more transistors and is 30% faster than the S8 chip. It also features a 4-core neural engine that delivers 2x faster neural tasks.
Siri requests are now processed on Apple Watch, making them faster and more secure, and for the first time, the voice assistant can also access your health data. Series 9 dictation is up to 25% more accurate than Series 8 thanks to secure on-device processing. Maintain the same 18 hours of battery life all day long.
With support for Ultra Wideband, Apple Watch Series 9 is the first to let you use precision search on iPhone, just as iPhone can use AirTag. It also has deeper integration with HomePod.
Series 9 also features a brighter always-on Retina display, capable of up to 2000 nits, twice the brightness of Apple Watch Series 8. You can also reduce the brightness to just 1 nit for theater or nighttime use. .
Apple Watch Series 9 can be controlled with a new hand gesture called “double tap,” which involves tapping the thumb and index finger at the same time, similar to the Vision Pro headset. Using this gesture, users can use their device without touching the screen to perform tasks such as answering or ending calls, stopping timers, snoozing alarms, pausing music playback, and launching Smart He stacks. can be operated. It does this by using accelerometers and blood oxygen sensors to look for small changes in movement and blood flow.
Apple Watch Series 9 comes in a new pink color option, along with Starlight, Silver, Midnight, and Product (Red). Stainless steel versions are available in silver, gold and graphite.
Apple Watch Series 9 is made with more recycled materials and comes in a smaller, more environmentally friendly box. The new version of the Sport Loop band also uses 82% recycled yarn. New Apple Watch bands no longer come in leather, but Apple does offer a variety of new “FineWoven” bands, as well as bands from Hermès and Nike.
The Apple Watch Series 9 is the successor to last year’s Series 8, which introduced body temperature sensing and period tracking, a more powerful gyroscope and high dynamic range accelerometer, and collision detection.
More to come…