Apple Announces WatchOS 9 With Updated Notifications, Enhanced Fitness and Sleep Tracking Features, More

Apple today announced watchOS 9 for Apple Watch, including new watch faces, notifications, a new Podcasts app, Sleep Stages, and more.

WatchOS 9 has a few new fitness features like a vertical oscillation metric, which measures how much you move up and down. There are also training experiences inspired by high-performing athletes.

There’s a big update to the Sleep app coming as well, with a new feature called Sleep Stages. The Apple Watch and WatchOS 9 can determine what stage of sleep you’re in, thanks to machine learning models.

More to follow…

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