Apple has continued to build on the core operating system that is watchOS with version 9.0. As with the previous updates, it remains similar in terms of the majority of interactions, but with tweaks and changes that should improve the experience and offer more flexibility whenever you strap your Apple Watch on.
A sprinkling of new watch faces brings new looks which you can enable at any time, and some of them offer genuine usability which will give instant information every time you lift your wrist. Heart Rate Zones in workouts could completely change how you exercise and help to lift the watchOS system to be more competitive with dedicated fitness watches from the likes of Garmin. You can also now customise your workouts in different ways and race specified routes that you create. Instant medication tracking will prove super useful for some and Apple has spent time improving the sleep tracking setup.
As ever with watchOS, there are many extra tweaks that are not promoted, but we will do our best to cover the entire set of changes here so that you know what’s new and can check it all out.
New watch faces
For a long time there has been a clamour for Apple to open up watchOS so that third-party developers can create watch faces. This would offer more choice to the user, but the list of available faces is now very long – and it just got more varied in watchOS 9.
1 To the moon!
The Lunar face not only looks smart, it offers true functionality for those who need to understand moon phases
