As Dick Tracy used to say in the good old days when Chester Gould drew the strip, “Ye Gods!” And what has us so amazed is that we are already facing the release of watchOS 10 in a couple of months or so. It feels like it was just the other day when Apple launched its timepiece as jewelry never thinking in a million years that it would become a lifesaving tool for those looking to live a healthy lifestyle.
Apple’s watchOS 10 will give Apple Watch users more information with a glance than ever before
Smart Stacks will use Machine Learning to always display the most relevant widget based on location, time of day, and activity
“We’re really leaning into the idea of using the entire display to create more places for content,” Charles said. “This has shown really well in an app like Weather, where now you can see AQI [that’s the Air Quality Index, folks], you can see wind speed, you can see your up-to-date data without having to go deeper into the app. It increases discoverability, it increases glanceability.”
And with Smart Stacks, users will be able to put together a group of widgets that will show up on the tap of the stack based on the time, location, and activity. The stack of widgets rotates always displaying the most relevant widget at the moment. In watchOS 10, the Smart Stack will be enabled by the Digital Crown and the side button will control the Control Center.
The Apple Watch worldwide marketing chief says learning the new features in watchOS 10 will be no big deal
The Apple Watch’s worldwide marketing chief added, “There’s a user base that’s passionate about a sport, and then there’s a developer that can really bring those things together.” The APIs will pull the data from the Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch SE (2022), and the Apple Watch Ultra’s three-axis gyroscopes.
Charles says that learning where everything is, and what the Digital Crown and side buttons can do in the latest version of the OS won’t be a big deal. He says, “I think it’s going to be really easy for people to parse out, especially for something as simple as Control Center. That convenience and expediency will make it really easy to sort of do that mental map to be like, ‘this button now brings up this thing.'”
He adds, “We think that the clarity of having the Digital Crown for apps and the side button for the Control Center will be really easy for our consumers to adapt to.”
