Apple Watch Series 7: A cheat sheet

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Apple's latest ticker is its astir durable and comes with an optimized idiosyncratic interface and faster charging, among different features.

Apple announced its Apple Watch Series 7 during a unrecorded lawsuit Tuesday, with COO Jeff Williams touting it arsenic "the astir durable Apple ticker we've ever built." This Apple Watch Series 7 cheat expanse includes details astir the smartwatch, including features, pricing accusation and more. This nonfiction volition beryllium updated arsenic caller accusation becomes disposable from Apple astir the Watch Series 7.

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What is the Apple Watch Series 7?

The Apple Watch Series 7 is the successor to past year's Apple Watch Series 6. It comes with a wholly reengineered show that Apple says is the "largest and astir precocious retina display,'' with astir 20% much surface than the Apple Watch Series 6. It is besides 40% thinner than the Series 6.

"It encourages you to beryllium progressive and get much with your workouts'' and monitors a user's health, Williams said.

The lawsuit and the show person been refined with "softer, much rounded corners." The Series 7 Watch refracts airy "for a subtle, wrap-around effect,'' Williams said. The watch's dimensions person "barely changed,'' Williams said.

The Apple Watch Series 7 is 70% brighter indoors erstwhile a user's wrist is down.

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What are the cardinal features of the Apple Watch Series 7?

The Apple Watch Series 7 comes with a caller display, caller keyboard and greater durability. Like its predecessor, the Series 7 has an 18-hour artillery beingness and an improved charging experience—33% faster than the Apple Watch Series 6 with an updated charging architecture and caller USB cable. Now, it takes 45 minutes to spell from zero to 80% charged, according to Lauren Braun, merchandise manager.

The Apple Watch Series 7 has caller features for motorcycle riders. It volition observe erstwhile you statesman riding and punctual you to commencement a workout, and it volition automatically halt and resume erstwhile you pause. The ticker has an improved algorithm for e-bikes that much accurately counts calories.

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Buttons person been redesigned and enlarged to complement the size and signifier of the caller display, Braun said. This makes it easier to pat buttons similar halt watch, enactment and alarms. It tin besides acceptable astir 50% much substance than the Apple Watch Series 6 to marque it easier to work texts with little scrolling, she said.

The Apple Watch Series 7 besides features caller ways to input substance with a afloat keyboard you tin either pat oregon slide, with QuickPath, which uses instrumentality learning to foretell the connection you're typing.

The Apple Watch Series 7 besides comes with improved durability. It has a "crack-resistant beforehand crystal," and "more robust geometry." It's besides the archetypal Apple ticker to person IP6X certification, truthful users don't person to interest astir it successful dusty environments, she said. The Apple Watch Series 7 is inactive water-resistant, Braun said.

How does the Apple Watch Series 7 comparison to the Apple Watch Series 6?

One of the main differences betwixt the Apple Watch Series 7 and Apple Watch Series 6 is the look and feel. The lawsuit and the show of the Apple Watch Series 7 are somewhat larger and comes with much rounded corners. The Apple Watch Series 7 has a caller Mindfulness app, and watchOS 8 has been updated with precocious algorithms to analyse GPS, bosom rate, accelerometer and gyroscope information that detects erstwhile users statesman a motorcycle ride. Unlike the Apple Watch Series 6, it besides has a afloat keyboard for typing messages.

Since its motorboat successful 2018, the Apple Watch has been capable to observe if a idiosyncratic falls and tin initiate a telephone to exigency services from their wrist. watchOS 8 has updated autumn detection algorithms truthful that if idiosyncratic falls during a workout, specified arsenic riding a bike, that volition beryllium detected.

Both the Apple Watch Series 6 and Apple Watch Series 7 person the aforesaid 18-hour artillery beingness and usage recycled materials, but Apple said the Apple Watch Series 7 "has much recycled contented than immoderate different Apple Watch,'' with 100% recycled tungsten and a 100% recycled lawsuit connected the aluminum models. The Apple Watch Series 7 is made without harmful chemicals specified arsenic mercury, PVC, beryllium and BFRs.

How does the Apple Watch Series 7 comparison to the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4?

One of the different main competitors to the Apple Watch is the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4, which became disposable successful August 2021. The Galaxy Watch 4 comes with 2 plan options: sporty and classic. The classical exemplary looks much similar a accepted watch.

The Galaxy Watch 4 besides comes with assemblage creation analysis, ECG, slumber tracking, much predominant overnight humor oxygen readings and car workout tracking. The Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic travel successful achromatic and silver, portion the Watch 4 besides comes successful green, pinkish and gold.

The Galaxy Watch 4 starts astatine $249.99 for the 40mm Bluetooth exemplary and $299.99 for the 40mm LTE model.

What are the color, bands and show options for the Apple Watch Series 7?

It comes successful 5 caller colors: midnight, starlight, green, bluish and red. It volition besides beryllium disposable successful silver, graphite, gold, stainless steel, a earthy titanium and abstraction achromatic titanium. The Apple Watch Series 7 is compatible with each existing bands, and determination volition beryllium caller bands from decorator Hermes.

Is the Apple Watch Series 7 eco-friendly?

All aluminum ticker cases are made with 100% recycled metal, and each the magnets successful the Apple Watch Series 7 usage 100% recycled uncommon world elements, Williams said.