What’s new in WatchOS 4

**New Features and Updates in Apple Watch OS 4**

If you've recently updated to Apple Watch OS 4, you'll notice several new features and updates that enhance your overall user experience. One of the most notable changes is the introduction of a new orientation tag under the General tab, where you can easily switch between left and right wrists, as well as adjust the digital crown's settings. Additionally, there's now a Wake screen feature, which allows the watch to light up when lifted, giving you an indication that your phone is nearby.

Another exciting update is the integration of new options directly on the Apple Watch itself, rather than relying solely on the watch app on your iPhone. This includes Location Services, Nightstand Mode, and several other features that were previously only accessible through the iPhone app. The new interface for these options is sleek and user-friendly, making it easy to manage your settings on-the-go.

**Dialing Options and Phone Interface**

The phone application on your Apple Watch has also received a significant update, with a new keypad option and improved dialing experience. When you start a call, the interface transforms into a more streamlined layout that makes it easier to access your keypad, microphone, and volume controls. This new design is not only visually appealing but also functional, allowing you to quickly adjust your settings during a call.

One notable feature of this updated phone app is the addition of a repeat timer option for timed calls. Previously, this feature was only available on the iPhone; now, it's been integrated into the Apple Watch itself. You can set custom timers and have the option to repeat them seamlessly, making phone calls more convenient than ever.

**News App and Music Integration**

The News app has also received an update, allowing you to save articles for later and receive quick glances at breaking news stories. This new feature is particularly useful during busy periods or when you don't have time to fully read an article. The News app's interface has been streamlined, making it easy to access the features you need quickly.

In terms of music, Apple Watch OS 4 brings several exciting updates. One of the most notable changes is the ability to offload playlists directly from your watch. This feature allows you to easily sync and manage your workout playlists without needing an iPhone. The new Control Center has also been enhanced with a flashlight option that can be intensified using the digital crown.

The Workout app itself is a highlight of Apple Watch OS 4, offering several features that make exercising on-the-go easier than ever. You can add multiple workouts to a single session and seamlessly transition between them without losing any progress. The Workout app also includes a pause feature, allowing you to take breaks or switch to another activity without interruption.

**Watch Faces and Photos**

The watch face interface has been updated with a new Collidoscope Option, which allows you to create custom watch faces using photos from your iPhone. This feature is particularly cool, as it enables you to take a photo on your phone and instantly turn it into a unique watch face.

In the Photos app, you'll find a new option to create a watch face directly from your photos. This feature gives you complete control over the design and layout of your watch face, allowing you to personalize your Apple Watch like never before.

**Messages App**

The Messages app has also received an update with the introduction of peer-to-peer money sending using Siri. This feature allows you to quickly send funds to friends or family members without needing to leave the app. The Messages interface itself remains largely unchanged, but the new features add a convenient and secure way to communicate with others.

**Conclusion**

Overall, Apple Watch OS 4 offers numerous exciting updates that enhance your user experience. From the new watch face options to the improved phone app, these changes demonstrate Apple's commitment to continuously improving their devices. Whether you're looking for ways to manage your settings, stay connected with friends and family, or simply want to enjoy a more seamless user experience, Apple Watch OS 4 has something to offer.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what is up guys I help here today we're going to be taking a look at some of the new features in watch OS 4 let's begin first I want to talk about the new Apple watch pairing interface here go ahead and enable Bluetooth and show you how the Apple watch can now be connected to the iPhone using a very similar interface that you would find with a W1 enabled device like airpods for example just click pairing here it's going to start pairing my device right here to my iPhone now the iPhone does have to be running iOS 11 of course in order for this uh to work but watch OS 4 and iOS 11 do have a new pairing interface on watch OS 4 we have a new number pad including new sounds to it in a back key as well including animations for when you tap on a a digit here you see that new animation and the sound along with it and a back key as well now on watch OS 4 Apple gives you sort of a little cards here with tutorials on how you can interact with the new OS swiping gestures and things like that you can swipe in between it gives you little tutorials here pretty cool stuff stuff that you can learn while your Apple watch is pairing and also has the digital Crown tips here you can learn how to use the digital crown on the new watch o 4 it shows you again some of the great tips of the new OS which is very useful a lot of people don't understand some of the features in uses of some of the buttons with the watch OS and the Apple watch in general so very nice that they added these cards here to kind of show you how to use your Apple watch with the new watch OS 4 one of my favorite new features about watch OS 4 is the new dock as you can see here you can just scroll through it very very easily very nicely and you get new animations and new fonts now at the bottom of the dock you also get the ability to go back to the home screen to the grid View and speaking of the grid view you can now 3D touch or Force touch on the grid View and then go to a list view it's a lot easier to navigate uh some people will prefer this over the grid view including myself watchos 4 also offers a new Siri watch face which is a watch face that gives you your reminders your to-do list I also have a Siri bun up at the top left including the time and the date here on the right and I like this a lot because if I have a reminder or things to do throughout the day I can see it in this cards because it updates in real time and it also gives you suggestions of things that you could do throughout the day with the new Siri watch face now although new watch faces for Toy Story aren't available in beta 1 you can expect new Toy Story watch faces which is going to be in addition to the Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse that we currently have under the generals tab here you'll find a new orientation tag here where you can go ahead and change the wrist to left and right including the digital crown left and right you also have the Wake screen so when you lift your watch you see the screen light up it's sort of like the rise to wake you see those new options here you can enable or disable directly on the watch now nightstand mode you can also enable or disable you also have some location services uh right here on the Apple watch itself now all these options or some of these options were available through the watch app on your your iPhone but now some of these options are being made available directly on the watch user interface now inside of the phone application on your Apple watch you'll notice a slightly different interface Boulder text and of course a new keypad option which wasn't available before when you start to dial you see that the interface is slightly different than what it was before and of course you have access to your keypad your microphone and then the volume from right there once the call has been answered so pretty cool new interface here for the watch or the phone application in the Apple watch now if you watch my iOS 11 coverage you might have noticed that I talked about a repeat option for the timer same thing applies here for the Apple watch once it's done you can repeat the timer over and over that option was not available before you can set the custom timers and the new option to repeat is very very handy now if you haven't noticed as of yet the News application has now made available on the Apple watch you can save for later go to the next story and it just gives you glances at quick information and things are happening at the moment now if we tap into music music uh brought a lot of new things here for watch W 4 starting with the offloading of playlist directly on Apple watch so if you go to workout and you have a playlist you can sync it to Apple watch if you go to the new control center here you'll notice that there's a few new things here like the flashlight right here if you go ahead and enable it you get a a white screen here that will Flash and let say you're running in the evenings or taking a walk this is going to be very useful so you're more visible you have a second one which flash is a little more and with the digital Crown you can intensify that the workouts tab is entirely new here you have several different types of workout and you can continue one single session through different types of workout you can add workouts to a particular uh segment that you're doing here you see the new user interface with animations and everything included very nicely you get all your information on the main screen here if you Swip to the right you have all your music controls and volumes for that new music application if you swipe to the left you have the ability to lock it and the only way you unlock it if you completely turn the digital Crown which is very useful so you don't accidentally uh end up a session without wanting to you can pause it and add another session to the workout that you're doing now and then just continue both in between you also have the ability to end it of course and continue an entirely new workout so very useful options here and more options inside of the workout section of the new workout application for watch OS 4 when you go to create new watch faces now you have a new collidoscope Option here which you can choose and make very cool watch faces depending on the photos that you have on your phone so you can actually take a picture on your phone create a watch face using the iPhone here so if I go into the photos on my iPhone here let's say I have this photo here I can go ahead here into the share Tab and create a new watch face right here and that's going to give me the option to create the new gyroscope right there really cool and you can go ahead and change that you have all your settings down here and it's all going to be managed through the photos application on on the iPhone but you do have that really cool option now available for watch OS 4 I also wanted to share messages because messages now offers the peer-to-peer ability to send money using Siri and the new messages application uh user interface is relatively identical to what it was before with all your options that you would expect and if you swipe to the left here you have a details button in a delete trash button in the messages tab as well this was a quick view at watch S 4 I hope you guys enjoy the video let me know what you think I'll be covering this more in depth once it is released to the public I really really like what I'm seeing and I hope you guys enjoy the video it's been ID's help and I'll see you guys on the next one peacehey what is up guys I help here today we're going to be taking a look at some of the new features in watch OS 4 let's begin first I want to talk about the new Apple watch pairing interface here go ahead and enable Bluetooth and show you how the Apple watch can now be connected to the iPhone using a very similar interface that you would find with a W1 enabled device like airpods for example just click pairing here it's going to start pairing my device right here to my iPhone now the iPhone does have to be running iOS 11 of course in order for this uh to work but watch OS 4 and iOS 11 do have a new pairing interface on watch OS 4 we have a new number pad including new sounds to it in a back key as well including animations for when you tap on a a digit here you see that new animation and the sound along with it and a back key as well now on watch OS 4 Apple gives you sort of a little cards here with tutorials on how you can interact with the new OS swiping gestures and things like that you can swipe in between it gives you little tutorials here pretty cool stuff stuff that you can learn while your Apple watch is pairing and also has the digital Crown tips here you can learn how to use the digital crown on the new watch o 4 it shows you again some of the great tips of the new OS which is very useful a lot of people don't understand some of the features in uses of some of the buttons with the watch OS and the Apple watch in general so very nice that they added these cards here to kind of show you how to use your Apple watch with the new watch OS 4 one of my favorite new features about watch OS 4 is the new dock as you can see here you can just scroll through it very very easily very nicely and you get new animations and new fonts now at the bottom of the dock you also get the ability to go back to the home screen to the grid View and speaking of the grid view you can now 3D touch or Force touch on the grid View and then go to a list view it's a lot easier to navigate uh some people will prefer this over the grid view including myself watchos 4 also offers a new Siri watch face which is a watch face that gives you your reminders your to-do list I also have a Siri bun up at the top left including the time and the date here on the right and I like this a lot because if I have a reminder or things to do throughout the day I can see it in this cards because it updates in real time and it also gives you suggestions of things that you could do throughout the day with the new Siri watch face now although new watch faces for Toy Story aren't available in beta 1 you can expect new Toy Story watch faces which is going to be in addition to the Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse that we currently have under the generals tab here you'll find a new orientation tag here where you can go ahead and change the wrist to left and right including the digital crown left and right you also have the Wake screen so when you lift your watch you see the screen light up it's sort of like the rise to wake you see those new options here you can enable or disable directly on the watch now nightstand mode you can also enable or disable you also have some location services uh right here on the Apple watch itself now all these options or some of these options were available through the watch app on your your iPhone but now some of these options are being made available directly on the watch user interface now inside of the phone application on your Apple watch you'll notice a slightly different interface Boulder text and of course a new keypad option which wasn't available before when you start to dial you see that the interface is slightly different than what it was before and of course you have access to your keypad your microphone and then the volume from right there once the call has been answered so pretty cool new interface here for the watch or the phone application in the Apple watch now if you watch my iOS 11 coverage you might have noticed that I talked about a repeat option for the timer same thing applies here for the Apple watch once it's done you can repeat the timer over and over that option was not available before you can set the custom timers and the new option to repeat is very very handy now if you haven't noticed as of yet the News application has now made available on the Apple watch you can save for later go to the next story and it just gives you glances at quick information and things are happening at the moment now if we tap into music music uh brought a lot of new things here for watch W 4 starting with the offloading of playlist directly on Apple watch so if you go to workout and you have a playlist you can sync it to Apple watch if you go to the new control center here you'll notice that there's a few new things here like the flashlight right here if you go ahead and enable it you get a a white screen here that will Flash and let say you're running in the evenings or taking a walk this is going to be very useful so you're more visible you have a second one which flash is a little more and with the digital Crown you can intensify that the workouts tab is entirely new here you have several different types of workout and you can continue one single session through different types of workout you can add workouts to a particular uh segment that you're doing here you see the new user interface with animations and everything included very nicely you get all your information on the main screen here if you Swip to the right you have all your music controls and volumes for that new music application if you swipe to the left you have the ability to lock it and the only way you unlock it if you completely turn the digital Crown which is very useful so you don't accidentally uh end up a session without wanting to you can pause it and add another session to the workout that you're doing now and then just continue both in between you also have the ability to end it of course and continue an entirely new workout so very useful options here and more options inside of the workout section of the new workout application for watch OS 4 when you go to create new watch faces now you have a new collidoscope Option here which you can choose and make very cool watch faces depending on the photos that you have on your phone so you can actually take a picture on your phone create a watch face using the iPhone here so if I go into the photos on my iPhone here let's say I have this photo here I can go ahead here into the share Tab and create a new watch face right here and that's going to give me the option to create the new gyroscope right there really cool and you can go ahead and change that you have all your settings down here and it's all going to be managed through the photos application on on the iPhone but you do have that really cool option now available for watch OS 4 I also wanted to share messages because messages now offers the peer-to-peer ability to send money using Siri and the new messages application uh user interface is relatively identical to what it was before with all your options that you would expect and if you swipe to the left here you have a details button in a delete trash button in the messages tab as well this was a quick view at watch S 4 I hope you guys enjoy the video let me know what you think I'll be covering this more in depth once it is released to the public I really really like what I'm seeing and I hope you guys enjoy the video it's been ID's help and I'll see you guys on the next one peace\n"