A few hours ago Apple released watchOS 9 beta 5 just 4 days after the last beta. Users have not left relevant incidents of the beta 8 of watchOS 5 and neither Apple has left anything relevant in their comments, so it seems to indicate that Apple is stepping up all its efforts to have a very stable version of watchOS 5.
It is not the first operating system with two betas in this week. The iOS 12 beta is a good example of this, repeating the beta version this week. It is still early to know the news of this 9th beta.
What's new in watchOS 5:
In addition to performance improvements for current versions of the Apple Watch, Apple continues to work on activities related to health and physical exercise. In this sense:
- We will see the possibility of share our activity with other Apple Watch users, is an important novelty.
- Also added new activities, like yoga and hiking.
- added new activity start and stop functions, pace, distance, cadence alerts, among others.
On the other hand, Now it is possible to stream and sync Podcast with Apple Watch. A novel feature is the ability to broadcast audio message through the new Walkie-Talkie app. Apple gives another twist to the grouped notifications, so that these do not accumulate on the clock screen.
But the function that more productivity has to offer in the day to day with our Apple watch is Raise to speak. Hereinafter we can talk to Siri just by turning the wrist. At this moment Siri will listen to what we say in case we want to ask something.
In the latest betas, we find the following news:
- Walkie-Talkie shows us suggestions from friends.
- The sphere Now Playing appears on the main screen.
- You can adjust Siri volume independently to the rest of the clock sounds.
We hope to see soon more news of the September keynote date, as well as the new Apple Watch models, which are expected to be somewhat larger than the current models.