**New Features and Updates in Watch OS 5**

As we take a closer look at the location list, it's clear that Watch OS 5 has made some significant changes to the color scheme. Gone are the days of just having orange on the watch face; now you can also add a city directly from the world clock app, which was not possible in Watch OS 4. This adds a touch of modernity and convenience to the watch's interface. Additionally, the timer app has received an update with a new custom button at the bottom of the interface. The button is larger and more prominent than before, making it easier to access frequently used features.

**Custom Timers and Recent Section**

One of the standout features of Watch OS 5 is the introduction of a "Recent" section in the timer app. This allows users to quickly access custom timers that they've set up in the past, saving them time and effort. The recent section is accessible from the bottom of the interface, providing easy access to frequently used timers. In contrast, Watch OS 4 does not offer this feature, making it a welcome addition for users.

**Improved Mail App**

The mail app has also seen some significant updates in Watch OS 5. When using the "Refresh" feature, which is now more descriptive and provides more information about the update status of your email, you'll notice that Watch OS 5 offers a more detailed view of when your mail was last updated. This adds an extra layer of transparency and convenience to the app's functionality. Additionally, users can now view web content within emails directly on their watch, a feature that was not available in Watch OS 4.

**New Button Layouts and Features**

In the Settings app, you'll notice some changes to the button layout. The "Website Data" section under General has been added, allowing users to clear website data, which is a welcome feature for those who want to keep their watch clean of unwanted data. The "Text Size" settings have also been rearranged, providing an alternative way to adjust font size.

**Other App Updates**

The messages app has received a new button layout at the bottom, with subtle changes to the digital touch and Apple Pay buttons. In contrast, Watch OS 4 had a different button layout in this section. The stocks app has also seen some updates, including the ability to add or remove stocks directly from the watch face by force-touching. This adds an extra layer of convenience for users who want to manage their stock portfolios on the go.

**Subtle Changes**

Some subtle changes have been made across various apps in Watch OS 5. For example, the keypad button has changed to a simple black "+" button on Watch OS 5, whereas it was previously a colored button. The Maps app has also seen some tweaks, including smaller nearby locations and higher fields for entry.

**Dock and Enhanced Do-Not-Disturb Features**

The dock has received an update with a bright red "Remove" button, making it easier to remove items from your watch face. This feature was not available in Watch OS 4, adding a new layer of convenience to the watch's interface. Additionally, Watch OS 5 introduces enhanced do-not-disturb features, including the ability to turn on do-not-disturb for an hour until evening or when leaving a specific location.

**Student ID Cards and Hands-Free Siri**

One of the most anticipated features in Watch OS 5 is the introduction of student ID cards for college campuses. This feature allows students to securely access campus resources using their watch. Furthermore, users can now raise and start speaking without saying "Hey Siri", making it easier to interact with their watch.

**Conclusion**

Overall, Watch OS 5 offers a range of new features and updates that enhance the user experience on your Apple Watch. From custom timers and improved mail app functionality to subtle changes across various apps, there's something for everyone in this latest version of watchOS. Whether you're looking for convenience, modernity, or just a fresh interface, Watch OS 5 is definitely worth checking out.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhow's it going ladies and gentlemen boys and girls this is chap in German with a 9 to 5 mat in this video we talk about 50 different watch West 5 features if you appreciate this video please leave me a thumbs up and let me know let's get started let's begin with the activity ab now we have activity app competition so you can go in challenge your friends to a seven-day competition you'll get notifications throughout the competition to tell you your status and whoever earns the most points in seven days wins now the winner will receive a special competition award which you can find in the awards tab in the activity app so if you come out on top in that seven-day competition you'll receive one of these right here another thing you'll find in the activity app is a start workout reminder in an end workout reminder handy when you accidentally forget to start your workouts now the workouts app in general has a lot of new features you have a couple of new workouts here you saw the yoga workout but there's also a hiking workout which is really cool and then there's automatic workout detection like I alluded to earlier you will get an alert when it senses you've completed a workout or when it senses you started a workout but forgot to actually start it there's also a slightly modified button style inside the parameters for each workout so you can see they're more oval shaped than circle shaped I've also noticed that the little animation in the upper left hand corner of an impressed workout is now smaller and that may have something to do with the additional data points that can show up here in your workout screen there's a new rolling Mouse data point which will give you splits of preceding Mouse and for the first time they are also paste alerts that you can enable just by tapping the options button little ellipsis button you'll see there at the bottom tap peace alert and there you can set up peace alerts you can set your alert there and then you can enable a rolling or average pace alert by just tapping one of these options right here and then the alert appears on the workout button watch OS 5 also includes cadence aka steps per minute or SPM you can see it right here now let's talk about control center in Notification Center watch OS 5 allows you to access Notification Center not only from your watch face which both watch us for and watch West five can do but now you can access Notification Center within apps in watch OS 5 something you can't do on previous versions so I have the timer app open here let's go ahead and try to open up Notification Center on the previous version watch OS 4 and see what happens and nothing happens because you can't invoke Notification Center from apps and watch OS 4 but if you tap and hold at the top in watch OS 5 and swipe down yeah you can invoke Notification Center within apps that is awesome in speaking of notifications you now have grouped and notifications within watch OS 5 so watch OS 5 is of course on the left watch OS 4 on the right so you can see I have a whole bunch of text message notifications but look at the same batch of notifications on watch OS 5 and it appears as a group so if I have a whole bunch of different notifications from different apps I'm not inundated with just a whole swath of notifications you can also instantly manage notifications in watch OS 5 if you swipe over you will now also see in addition to the X an ellipsis button but gives you instant management for your notifications so you can choose to deliver those quietly you can choose to turn off notifications altogether no big surprise very similar to what you find in iOS 12 now you can also access control center within apps so it's not just Notification Center of course you can access control center from the watch face in both watch iOS 4 & 5 but notice what happens when you open up an app and try to invoke Control Center and watch West 4 on the right nothing nothing happens but watch tap and hold swipe up in watch OS 5 you can access control center from your applications along with the watch face that is a very welcome feature but it doesn't stop there the goodness doesn't stop there folks you can also rearrange your control center toggles simply swipe up like this and it will reveal an edit button you don't get that edit button on the previous version of watch OS but you do own watch it West 5 and now you simply tap and hold and drag to rearrange the toggles to your liking so let's go ahead and move that flashlight button up there because I use that pretty often just didn't really do it right that time let's go ahead and try that again tap drag and release just like that so once you're done just tap done at the bottom of the screen like this and that ladies and gentlemen is how you edit your control center toggles to your liking now let's talk about E and much more subtle change when you invoke airplane mode on watch OS 5 you'll notice that the toggles aren't as dark as they are on watch us for not a big change but as we proceed you'll see a lot more subtle little details like this in this latest update now here's something that a lot of us have been clamoring for for some time now the ability to connect directly to a Wi-Fi network right from the watch which is something we couldn't do before it always relied on the iPhone but now you can type a password using scribble and join a Wi-Fi network directly from your watch without using your iPhone that is a very very nice feature now let's talk about new apps first of all the walkie talkie app which basically gives you sort of a push-to-talk service right there from your Apple watch to communicate with other watch OS 5 users we'll have more details on that because as you can see it's not quite ready yet there's also a walkie talkie complication that you'll find so that will be a companion tool for the walkie talkie app once it works besides it only have one watch OS 5 device as it is anyway so even if it did work I wouldn't be able to test it out just yet looking forward to it though there's also a new podcast app something we've been wanting for some time now there is a native podcast app within watch OS 5 and that will automatically download your favorite podcasts which is really cool you can go in there and connect your ear pods or any other Bluetooth headset and start listening to your podcasts on the go so this will allow you to access your favorite podcasts you can go in to the noun plane section there's also a library section that you can go into just tap on that and then you can tap on episodes to view all episodes or you can go in to an individual show and then view the episodes related to that exact show so you can see the 9 to 5 Mac daily podcast has all the latest episodes right there at your disposal and unsurprisingly there's also a podcast app complication to go along with the brand new podcast app and you'll also be able to do this play the exponent podcast so you'll be able to use Siri to request any Podcast Finland on Apple podcasts just like that it's not quite working yet though now let's get into some more nuanced detail starting with watch face colors there's a new peach color available you can see there there's orange apricot scroll to the next one here and watch OS 4 you see light orange but if you scroll to the next one here you see peach so peach is new in watch OS 5 there's also a flashlight color that you see right here so that's new on the left watch OS 5 there's also a denim blue color so you can see dark teal dark teal scroll and watch OS for midnight blue but if I scroll on watch OS five you get denim blue that's new now I can't really show it to you yet but there's an updated Siri watch face that will accommodate third party cards so you'll be able to access third party information right there from the Siri watch face but what I can show you is a new gray color for the Siri watch face if you go into customize here you see those two dots nil you can actually swipe over you can't do that on watch West 4 and then change the color to a gray color which actually think looks pretty cool so let's check that out see what it looks like alright so there's the great color and here's the normal color that you get on watch us for which one do you like better alright so now let's talk about the weather app and some of the changes there you can now add or remove cities directly from the weather app you don't have to do so from your iPhone first so you can see there watch it was 5 add city you can use dictation or scribble to add that city and you can remove a city just by force touching and then tapping remove to remove that city you can't do that here on watch West for now you can also tap between the different parameters here so if if I tap here on watch OS for it just takes me to the 10-day but if I tap here I can switch between rain temperature and condition now you can switch between those on watch OS 4 as well but you have to force touch the screen like this in order to switch between them so it's a little more convoluted than it is on watch OS 5 but it doesn't stop there you can also scroll to view things like air quality UV index etc if you tap on watch OS 4 it just takes you to the ten day but if you scroll on watch of us five look what you get you get new data air quality UV index winds and you get your ten day on top of that now if you scroll the digital crown on watch West for basically just takes you to the next location that you have configured in your list yeah not as cool now let's talk about the world clock app starting with a different location list color scheme so if I go over to the location list you can see that the color scheme here has that grey color on the orange where you just have orange and orange on wacho s4 but you can also scroll all the way down and add a city directly from the world clock app you can't do that on watch OS 4 of course you can use dictation or scribble to do so and there's also sunrise and sunset glyphs instead of the text that you see on watch OS 4 so it's a cleaner look in my opinion alright so the timer app gets an updated custom button at the bottom of the interface it is now a little bit larger in watch OS 5 and it's orange as you can see there and watch OS 5 you'll find a new recent section at the bottom of the timer app and this recent section basically consists of custom timers that you set up so it knows hey you could set this custom timer up before you probably want to use it again so it allows you to quickly access those custom timers right there at the bottom of the interface you can't do so on watch us for now in the mail app when you use pool to refresh this is what you see on watch OS for just a little circle spinny thing but in watch it was 5 it's a little more descriptive when you pull the Refresh announces checking for mel and watch the west 5 will also tell you when your mail was last updated just like that you can even view web content within an email so notice here watch OS 4 guess what it says yeah the full version of this message isn't available on the Apple watch but you can read it on your iPhone but here on watch OS 5 yeah you can actually view web content directly from your wrist there's also new sinned and cancel buttons when composing a new message in watch OS 5 and you'll note some redesigned buttons when filling in Millfield so if i tap add subject you can see the buttons are slightly changed now let's mosey on over to the Settings app and find out what's new there you'll find a website data section under general for clearing website data now that you can view web content and there's rearranged text size settings so you go in there you can see how it's kind of been flip-flopped there within text size and I notice it could be a bug but I've noticed that the prominent haptic switch has been removed in watch OS 5 whereas it's still there and watch West for now let's briefly discuss a few other app updates the messages app has a new button layout at the bottom so if I scroll to the bottom on watch OS 5 you can see the buttons are slightly changed for the digital touch and Apple pay and in watch OS 5 you can now add or remove stocks directly from the stocks app so just force touch and you can delete a stock or if you scroll to the bottom this is watching West 4 notice no button down there at the bottom on watch OS 4 but you will find an ADD stock button with watch West 5 now talk about subtle changes this is a very subtle change with the phone app the keypad notice the little plus button in the bottom left-hand corner it's just a black button on watch OS 5 and the Maps app has smaller and it's very subtle but smaller nearby locations you can barely make it out but notice how the the fields are a little bit higher on watching us 5 indicating that they're smaller than what you'll find on watch OS 4 and it appears that the Find My Friends app has a slightly rearranged button layout millets briefly talked about some additional details the dock now has a bright red remove buttons here here's watch OS 4 with the red X there but notice the same button on watch OS 5 it is bright red now allows you to remove items from your dock watch OS 5 includes some of the same enhanced do-not-disturb features that you'll find on iOS 12 while on iOS 4 you tap the Do Not Disturb button and it's business as usual but look on watch OS 5 you get additional options to turn on for an hour until the evening or until you leave your current location now I can't actually show this to you but watch OS 5 will support student ID cards for college campuses and it will include what is perhaps my most anticipated new feature being able to raise and just start to speak without saying hey Siri so yeah race to speak no hey Siri necessary so ladies and gentlemen this is watch OS 5 a whole bunch of new features a lot of them very small features but nonetheless still a ton of new at the chance to watch OS 5 what's your favorite feature let me know down below in the comments and leave me a thumbs up if you appreciated this video this is Jeff with 905 Machow's it going ladies and gentlemen boys and girls this is chap in German with a 9 to 5 mat in this video we talk about 50 different watch West 5 features if you appreciate this video please leave me a thumbs up and let me know let's get started let's begin with the activity ab now we have activity app competition so you can go in challenge your friends to a seven-day competition you'll get notifications throughout the competition to tell you your status and whoever earns the most points in seven days wins now the winner will receive a special competition award which you can find in the awards tab in the activity app so if you come out on top in that seven-day competition you'll receive one of these right here another thing you'll find in the activity app is a start workout reminder in an end workout reminder handy when you accidentally forget to start your workouts now the workouts app in general has a lot of new features you have a couple of new workouts here you saw the yoga workout but there's also a hiking workout which is really cool and then there's automatic workout detection like I alluded to earlier you will get an alert when it senses you've completed a workout or when it senses you started a workout but forgot to actually start it there's also a slightly modified button style inside the parameters for each workout so you can see they're more oval shaped than circle shaped I've also noticed that the little animation in the upper left hand corner of an impressed workout is now smaller and that may have something to do with the additional data points that can show up here in your workout screen there's a new rolling Mouse data point which will give you splits of preceding Mouse and for the first time they are also paste alerts that you can enable just by tapping the options button little ellipsis button you'll see there at the bottom tap peace alert and there you can set up peace alerts you can set your alert there and then you can enable a rolling or average pace alert by just tapping one of these options right here and then the alert appears on the workout button watch OS 5 also includes cadence aka steps per minute or SPM you can see it right here now let's talk about control center in Notification Center watch OS 5 allows you to access Notification Center not only from your watch face which both watch us for and watch West five can do but now you can access Notification Center within apps in watch OS 5 something you can't do on previous versions so I have the timer app open here let's go ahead and try to open up Notification Center on the previous version watch OS 4 and see what happens and nothing happens because you can't invoke Notification Center from apps and watch OS 4 but if you tap and hold at the top in watch OS 5 and swipe down yeah you can invoke Notification Center within apps that is awesome in speaking of notifications you now have grouped and notifications within watch OS 5 so watch OS 5 is of course on the left watch OS 4 on the right so you can see I have a whole bunch of text message notifications but look at the same batch of notifications on watch OS 5 and it appears as a group so if I have a whole bunch of different notifications from different apps I'm not inundated with just a whole swath of notifications you can also instantly manage notifications in watch OS 5 if you swipe over you will now also see in addition to the X an ellipsis button but gives you instant management for your notifications so you can choose to deliver those quietly you can choose to turn off notifications altogether no big surprise very similar to what you find in iOS 12 now you can also access control center within apps so it's not just Notification Center of course you can access control center from the watch face in both watch iOS 4 & 5 but notice what happens when you open up an app and try to invoke Control Center and watch West 4 on the right nothing nothing happens but watch tap and hold swipe up in watch OS 5 you can access control center from your applications along with the watch face that is a very welcome feature but it doesn't stop there the goodness doesn't stop there folks you can also rearrange your control center toggles simply swipe up like this and it will reveal an edit button you don't get that edit button on the previous version of watch OS but you do own watch it West 5 and now you simply tap and hold and drag to rearrange the toggles to your liking so let's go ahead and move that flashlight button up there because I use that pretty often just didn't really do it right that time let's go ahead and try that again tap drag and release just like that so once you're done just tap done at the bottom of the screen like this and that ladies and gentlemen is how you edit your control center toggles to your liking now let's talk about E and much more subtle change when you invoke airplane mode on watch OS 5 you'll notice that the toggles aren't as dark as they are on watch us for not a big change but as we proceed you'll see a lot more subtle little details like this in this latest update now here's something that a lot of us have been clamoring for for some time now the ability to connect directly to a Wi-Fi network right from the watch which is something we couldn't do before it always relied on the iPhone but now you can type a password using scribble and join a Wi-Fi network directly from your watch without using your iPhone that is a very very nice feature now let's talk about new apps first of all the walkie talkie app which basically gives you sort of a push-to-talk service right there from your Apple watch to communicate with other watch OS 5 users we'll have more details on that because as you can see it's not quite ready yet there's also a walkie talkie complication that you'll find so that will be a companion tool for the walkie talkie app once it works besides it only have one watch OS 5 device as it is anyway so even if it did work I wouldn't be able to test it out just yet looking forward to it though there's also a new podcast app something we've been wanting for some time now there is a native podcast app within watch OS 5 and that will automatically download your favorite podcasts which is really cool you can go in there and connect your ear pods or any other Bluetooth headset and start listening to your podcasts on the go so this will allow you to access your favorite podcasts you can go in to the noun plane section there's also a library section that you can go into just tap on that and then you can tap on episodes to view all episodes or you can go in to an individual show and then view the episodes related to that exact show so you can see the 9 to 5 Mac daily podcast has all the latest episodes right there at your disposal and unsurprisingly there's also a podcast app complication to go along with the brand new podcast app and you'll also be able to do this play the exponent podcast so you'll be able to use Siri to request any Podcast Finland on Apple podcasts just like that it's not quite working yet though now let's get into some more nuanced detail starting with watch face colors there's a new peach color available you can see there there's orange apricot scroll to the next one here and watch OS 4 you see light orange but if you scroll to the next one here you see peach so peach is new in watch OS 5 there's also a flashlight color that you see right here so that's new on the left watch OS 5 there's also a denim blue color so you can see dark teal dark teal scroll and watch OS for midnight blue but if I scroll on watch OS five you get denim blue that's new now I can't really show it to you yet but there's an updated Siri watch face that will accommodate third party cards so you'll be able to access third party information right there from the Siri watch face but what I can show you is a new gray color for the Siri watch face if you go into customize here you see those two dots nil you can actually swipe over you can't do that on watch West 4 and then change the color to a gray color which actually think looks pretty cool so let's check that out see what it looks like alright so there's the great color and here's the normal color that you get on watch us for which one do you like better alright so now let's talk about the weather app and some of the changes there you can now add or remove cities directly from the weather app you don't have to do so from your iPhone first so you can see there watch it was 5 add city you can use dictation or scribble to add that city and you can remove a city just by force touching and then tapping remove to remove that city you can't do that here on watch West for now you can also tap between the different parameters here so if if I tap here on watch OS for it just takes me to the 10-day but if I tap here I can switch between rain temperature and condition now you can switch between those on watch OS 4 as well but you have to force touch the screen like this in order to switch between them so it's a little more convoluted than it is on watch OS 5 but it doesn't stop there you can also scroll to view things like air quality UV index etc if you tap on watch OS 4 it just takes you to the ten day but if you scroll on watch of us five look what you get you get new data air quality UV index winds and you get your ten day on top of that now if you scroll the digital crown on watch West for basically just takes you to the next location that you have configured in your list yeah not as cool now let's talk about the world clock app starting with a different location list color scheme so if I go over to the location list you can see that the color scheme here has that grey color on the orange where you just have orange and orange on wacho s4 but you can also scroll all the way down and add a city directly from the world clock app you can't do that on watch OS 4 of course you can use dictation or scribble to do so and there's also sunrise and sunset glyphs instead of the text that you see on watch OS 4 so it's a cleaner look in my opinion alright so the timer app gets an updated custom button at the bottom of the interface it is now a little bit larger in watch OS 5 and it's orange as you can see there and watch OS 5 you'll find a new recent section at the bottom of the timer app and this recent section basically consists of custom timers that you set up so it knows hey you could set this custom timer up before you probably want to use it again so it allows you to quickly access those custom timers right there at the bottom of the interface you can't do so on watch us for now in the mail app when you use pool to refresh this is what you see on watch OS for just a little circle spinny thing but in watch it was 5 it's a little more descriptive when you pull the Refresh announces checking for mel and watch the west 5 will also tell you when your mail was last updated just like that you can even view web content within an email so notice here watch OS 4 guess what it says yeah the full version of this message isn't available on the Apple watch but you can read it on your iPhone but here on watch OS 5 yeah you can actually view web content directly from your wrist there's also new sinned and cancel buttons when composing a new message in watch OS 5 and you'll note some redesigned buttons when filling in Millfield so if i tap add subject you can see the buttons are slightly changed now let's mosey on over to the Settings app and find out what's new there you'll find a website data section under general for clearing website data now that you can view web content and there's rearranged text size settings so you go in there you can see how it's kind of been flip-flopped there within text size and I notice it could be a bug but I've noticed that the prominent haptic switch has been removed in watch OS 5 whereas it's still there and watch West for now let's briefly discuss a few other app updates the messages app has a new button layout at the bottom so if I scroll to the bottom on watch OS 5 you can see the buttons are slightly changed for the digital touch and Apple pay and in watch OS 5 you can now add or remove stocks directly from the stocks app so just force touch and you can delete a stock or if you scroll to the bottom this is watching West 4 notice no button down there at the bottom on watch OS 4 but you will find an ADD stock button with watch West 5 now talk about subtle changes this is a very subtle change with the phone app the keypad notice the little plus button in the bottom left-hand corner it's just a black button on watch OS 5 and the Maps app has smaller and it's very subtle but smaller nearby locations you can barely make it out but notice how the the fields are a little bit higher on watching us 5 indicating that they're smaller than what you'll find on watch OS 4 and it appears that the Find My Friends app has a slightly rearranged button layout millets briefly talked about some additional details the dock now has a bright red remove buttons here here's watch OS 4 with the red X there but notice the same button on watch OS 5 it is bright red now allows you to remove items from your dock watch OS 5 includes some of the same enhanced do-not-disturb features that you'll find on iOS 12 while on iOS 4 you tap the Do Not Disturb button and it's business as usual but look on watch OS 5 you get additional options to turn on for an hour until the evening or until you leave your current location now I can't actually show this to you but watch OS 5 will support student ID cards for college campuses and it will include what is perhaps my most anticipated new feature being able to raise and just start to speak without saying hey Siri so yeah race to speak no hey Siri necessary so ladies and gentlemen this is watch OS 5 a whole bunch of new features a lot of them very small features but nonetheless still a ton of new at the chance to watch OS 5 what's your favorite feature let me know down below in the comments and leave me a thumbs up if you appreciated this video this is Jeff with 905 Mac\n"