Apple Watch 8 puts health and safety first in reviews. At first glance it is difficult to distinguish Apple Watch 7 from the new Apple Watch 8 which in fact maintains the same design but with different colors: in the first reviews published in the United States, the new Apple smartwatch is appreciated above all for the functions that are not immediately seen. including those dedicated to sport, health and even safety.
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In addition to monitoring different sports and physical activities more and better, now the wearable collects data about the steps and the path followed by the user combined with GPS measurements in this way it allows you to retrace the journey back to return to the starting point. But to have the Retrace your steps feature, you don’t need to buy Apple Watch 8, you just need to own a recent model of Apple Watch that can work with watcoOS 9.
The situation is different for the temperature sensor, which debuts for the first time in this model, which does not indicate whether the user has a fever, but which is used to improve sleep monitoring and also the menstrual cycle.
No one hopes they will ever need incident detection, but the Apple Watch 8’s new accelerometer and gyroscope triggers a distress message when they detect an accident and the user cannot or is unable to do so. The test for the review is also impossible, but it is one of those life-saving features for which Apple Watch often ended up on the news pages, as it happens regularly for the detection of heart problems.
For those who value the latest health and safety news Apple Watch 8 is the all-round smartwatch to buy, even for Engadget, but this year the king of wearables is finding its most difficult competitors at home: Apple Watch Ultra which will arrive from 23 September and also the cheaper second generation Apple Watch SE.
