watchOS 27 Announced
Apple today unveiled watchOS 27, featuring a redesigned dynamic app grid, new gesture controls, and a raft of usability and battery improvements.
The new dynamic app grid surfaces and rearranges five apps based on context and usage. Users can simply tap the bottom center icon to go to the rest of their apps.
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Users can now create custom passes for any membership or card that uses a QR code or barcode, such as a library card, using their iPhone and access it directly from the Apple Watch’s Wallet app or pin it to the Smart Stack.
Hartley Charlton (Marcus Mendes):
Apple today confirmed that watchOS 27 will not support the Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch Ultra (first generation), or Apple Watch SE (second generation), effectively drawing a line at devices equipped with the S9 or S10 chip.
Apple had initially announced that Series 9 would be dropped, too.
Here are new features coming in watchOS 27 for Apple Watch
watchOS 27 contains a series of enhancements to fitness and sleep tracking, including new Workout Buddy insights, improved indoor run tracking, and more.
Apple yesterday announced a redesigned Find My app in watchOS 27 that brings all tracking functionality into a single, map-centric interface.
Previously split across separate Find Devices, Find People, and Find Items apps, the new app now consolidates everything into one unified view.
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I love my Ultra. It's been a solid performer on countless hikes, up dozens of mountains, way surpassing the Series 5 I had before it, my first Apple Watch. The sapphire display's still flawless, despite a lot of rough treatment and clumsiness!
Yet here I am remembering why I was reluctant to grab the Ultra as soon as it came out: they shortchanged the processor, didn’t they? It was just a rebadged 2-year old SIP. I always knew it would come back to bite me, even in 2022!
Ah well. Asking Gemini to recap the rumours, supposedly the Ultra 4 is coming in the autumn and will be the first visual refresh to the Ultra line, while still being compatible with my beloved titanium Milanese loop. It'll cost me, but that’s Apple.
No cheating on the silicon again this time!
