watchOS 8 will be available for download on September 20th
Tonight Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Series 7. Appropriately, it was announced that Watch 8 available for download from September 20th.
A big focus of the new watchOS update is on your own well-being. To this end, Apple introduced a new mindfulness app, which not only includes the familiar breathing exercises, but also the new "Reflect" meditation exercises. This should help you to relax and review your day.
In addition, watchOS 8 measures breaths pro Minute. If this value changes over several months, this can indicate that you are more stressed. The workout app got two new sports: Tai Chi and Pilates.
Finally, there are a lot of changes to the clock faces and the Photos app. The latter was equipped with a whole range of features that are familiar from the version on the iPhone. These include the memory highlights.
The interaction with portraits has been refined for watchOS 8. Turning the crown in the Photos app increases or decreases the bokeh and these photos can now also be set as a clock face. The individual levels of a picture are even recognized, which means that the time is displayed behind the model.
watchOS 8: availability
watchOS 8 will be available for installation in the watch app from around 20 p.m. on September 19. It is important that your iPhone is already running iOS 15. If the update does not appear yet, patience is required. In this case it could be that Apple's server was overwhelmed with too many requests.