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Workout smart with your Apple Watch
Following Apple’s announcement of introducing smart gym equipment, which can exchange data with your Apple Watch, the first steps of taking on that new direction are promising.
Apple delivered 9 million Apple Watches in Q4 of 2018
Strategy Analytics recently published a report about global smartwatch shipments. According to the report, global smartwatch shipments reached 18 million in Q4 of 2018. Apple managed to capture 50% of the market.
Sleep tracking features may be coming to the Apple Watch in 2020
For a while, one of the most requested features for the Apple Watch has been sleep tracking. Although the Apple Watch Series 4 has pretty great battery life, it still has no such features.
Do you still wear a mechanical watch?
We wanted to find out how much of our Apple Watch community still wears a mechanical watch? Previously we wrote just how much Apple has progressed last year, becoming bigger then the whole Swiss watch industry combined.
Apple Watch credited with saving another life
We have already read and written about many reports where the Apple Watch became central in saving a life. Now a teen from Florida says that the Apple Watch helped her save her life.
Apple Watch can detect diabetes with 85% accuracy
We recently reported that the Apple Watch can detect hypertension and sleep apnea with very high accuracy. Now a new Cardiogram and UCSF study came out with a staggering result: The Apple Watch can detect diabetes with 85% accuracy!
Original and Series 1 Apple Watch repairs may qualify for Series 2 replacements
According to a recent report by MacRumors, Apple has some part constraints for original Apple Watches, as well as Series 1 Watches. According to an internal document, Apple support is instructed to replace eligible devices with Series 2 Apple Watches.
Health insurer Aetna and Apple team up for Watch app
From a health perspective, it is apparent that the Apple Watch is hugely beneficial to its owners, as it stimulates you to close the rings and stay active. When you forget to move, the Apple Watch gently notifies you to stand up and move a little.
Apple Watch Hermès Series 4 Review
When Apple released the all new Apple Watch Series 4, some things changed with the watch lineup. Most notably, there is no more Apple Watch Edition. Ceramic white and ceramic gray cases are therefore no longer available. However, Apple continued its partnership with Hermès, with some interesting updates.
Jony Ive talks about the history and future of Apple Watch
The most influential designer of the last decades, Jony Ive, invited the watch connoisseur online magazine Hodinkee to Apple’s new Apple Park campus for a very interesting in-depth interview about the thinking behind the Apple Watch.
Get 100+ great Mac apps for $10/month
Today we want to write about Mac apps. There are many of them, and most good ones aren’t cheap. A Mac app called Setapp offers over 100 fantastic Mac apps on a subscription basis for $10 / month. That’s right, you basically get Netflix for Mac apps.
Happy New Year from WatchAppList
Happy New Year dear WatchAppList readers! 2019 will be jam packed with daily Apple Watch content, so you can truly use your new Series 4 Apple Watches to the fullest.
Top 5 watchOS 5 Features (Video)
Jeff from 9to5Mac did a great video summarizing 5 great features watchOS 5 will bring this fall. If you have watched the keynote or read our summary, you know already what’s coming. In any case, it’s nice to watch a quick summary of the top 5 features in watchOS 5.
How to use Safari on Apple Watch
With the upcoming release of watchOS 5, Apple decided to integrate WebKit – which is basically a mini-Safari. Whenever possible, the Apple Watch will show a lightweight, readability enabled version of the website you’re trying to reach.
Six new how-to Apple Watch videos from Apple
Apple uploaded six new videos to YouTube, showcasing some key Apple Watch features. In this How-to series, Apple focuses on the customizable watch faces, the Walkie-Talkie app, Apple Music, how to locate the connected iPhone, and its fitness related features.
Finally, the Apple Watch ECG app is here!
We have written many stories about how the Apple Watch saved lives, whether through the emergency call option, or through the heart rate sensor, notifying people about irregular heart beats.
Apple Watch dominates Swiss Watch industry
Remember when many Swiss Watch executives proclaimed that the Apple Watch was not a threat to their classic brands? Well, the Apple Watch saw basically steady growth, and beat all previous industry assumptions and expectations.
5 cool Apple Watch accessories
There are tons of cool accessories for an iPhone. But what about the Apple Watch? We have compiled a list of our top 5 favorite Apple Watch accessories! Check them out below.