{"id":22792,"date":"2018-09-18T16:41:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22792"},"modified":"2025-01-01T14:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T19:39:58","slug":"watchos-5-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/watchos-5-released\/","title":{"rendered":"watchOS 5 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/watchos-5-the-macstories-review\/\">Alex Guyot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/watchos-5-the-macstories-review\/\"><p>This year&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/watchos-5-the-macstories-overview\/\">watchOS 5 update<\/a>, released today for all Apple Watches Series 1 and later, fills in the gaps of the watchOS audio feature set. Third-party audio apps can now run in the background, and full audio controls including volume adjustment via the Digital Crown have been made available to them. watchOS 5 also introduces the first-party Podcasts app, which supports automatic syncing of new episodes that you&rsquo;re subscribed to and streaming of any show in the iTunes podcast directory.<\/p><p>Beyond audio, watchOS 5 also builds on the solid fitness foundation with activity competitions, expanded Workout types, automatic workout detection, and advanced running statistics. Siri has continued to receive attention as well, introducing third-party integrations to the Siri watch face and a raise-to-speak feature which truncates the inveterate &ldquo;Hey Siri&rdquo; prefix for the first time on any platform. A new Walkie-Talkie app marks the first return to novelty Apple Watch communication methods since Digital Touch, but this time I think Apple might have tapped into a legitimate, albeit niche use case. Top things off with improved notifications, the introduction of web content, and NFC-powered student ID cards and we have a substantial watchOS update on our hands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/watchos-5-review\/\">Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/watchos-5-review\/\">\n<p>Personally, I find the enhancements to podcasts to be a game changer. I can finally, <em>finally<\/em> leave my iPhone at home when I go for a run because I can take my podcasts with me. Even more, the surprising fact that I can stream any podcast in existence over LTE just by asking Siri to play it for me is huge!<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, the Siri watch face is even better this year, and as a devout user of it already in watchOS 4, the addition of third party apps makes it the only watch face I have eyes for anymore. The updates to activity tracking makes the official Workouts app and all third party apps better, and competitions are a nice way to compete with your friends (even though I wish they would add group competitions badly). And of course, notifications are more powerful and easy to use than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Apple did nothing to address the &ldquo;app honeycomb&rdquo; which remains a less-than-perfect UI and the omission of third party watch face support, but overall I think they did a very nice job of making changes that needed to be made.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Guyot: This year&rsquo;s watchOS 5 update, released today for all Apple Watches Series 1 and later, fills in the gaps of the watchOS audio feature set. Third-party audio apps can now run in the background, and full audio controls including volume adjustment via the Digital Crown have been made available to them. watchOS 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-09-18T20:41:08Z","apple_news_api_id":"ce3bd148-20f2-40f7-9456-33b782bef17e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-01-01T19:39:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AzjvRSCDyQPeUVjO3gr7xfg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[992,647,112,247,1212,2706,2306],"class_list":["post-22792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-watch","tag-overcast","tag-podcasts","tag-siri","tag-watchos","tag-watchos-5","tag-watchos-release"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22793,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22792\/revisions\/22793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}