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Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 Feature 64GB of Storage
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This article says “With the S9 chip, there's a new Double Tap gesture (coming in October)”. Which implies it is not the same.
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That's very odd, as it says on here:
"The Apple Watch Ultra 2 also has a new gesture that uses just the watch hand for when your hands are full. Double tap allows you to tap your index finger and thumb together to do things like answer a call, end a call, snooze an alarm, play or pause music, and more.
The new double tap gesture is enabled by the faster Neural Engine in Apple Watch Ultra 2, which processes data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and optical heart sensor with a new machine learning algorithm. The algorithm detects the unique signature of tiny wrist movements and changes in blood flow when the index finger and thumb perform a double tap. Double Tap will be available next month, according to Apple"
Perhaps there are additional features available for this gesture, that are not available currently in the option in Accessibility under a different name.
Yeah that made me wonder the same. Perhaps there will be additional options available (once its enabled next month) which provide extra functionality from what is provided currently with the option in Accessibility?
Which makes me wonder, is there still some kind of legitimate rationale for why this is still the case? I mean, maybe something to do with the chip architecture that effectively hardwires the storage space into different categories, which can't be changed in the OS? I can't imagine that this is the case, but that's the only explanation I can come up with, besides it being a once legitimate (but now arbitrary and outdated) aspect of the OS that still exists either out of laziness, or because it's so deeply-rooted in the OS that it's difficult to remove.
It's maddening to have all that space, yet be prohibited from actually using it.
There’s another discussion that has hundreds of same comme
i’m getting $90 for first generation SE that I only paid $215 for. That’s pretty good considering the immense convenience of sending an old device back to Apple.
Yeah, I can understand reserving a few GB for updates and other system stuff, especially in the early days of the Watch when storage was much more limited. But these current versions with ample storage? Even if you STILL want to reserve a few GB, fine... but to make only 25% of storage space available for what is the predominant thing that people can put on their watches (songs and podcasts) is a stunningly dumb restriction.
I have it already working on my AW7 (literally used it 5 seconds ago). It is called "quick actions". I can "answer a call, play and pause music, open a notification, and more" with a double pinch gesture. So technically it is looks like it is the same feature and it does not require S9 chip. Obviously when released, "double tap" will have different UI and set of available options.
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Same that would’ve been earth Vader vibes. Maybe Colorware will offer this?!
Ooh yeah that’s when a much much smaller and less dorkier rendition of Apple Vision will debut and the watch can fully replace the iPhone for such users being a hub for the vision with audio voice input, scanning of text as alternative for input and sign language for input and live translation either to or from others.
Next major step for Apple audio.
For on device Siri, neural processing more complex apps that are larger, WatchOS with a LOT more features than ever before!?
Reminds me to ask this question again.
If Watchos only lets you use 25% of the storage for media, I don't mind that, but I can't get much Music synced over to my series 5. Perhaps my settings need some tweaking.
Is it possible to set your phone to sync a subset of your music to fit in that alotted media storage size? I want my watch to act like my old iPod nano. Since that 4th gen nano only had 16GB, iTunes created a playlist that matched its capacity and populated it. I could then add and delete songs from it, and it would update on the nano whenever I plugged it in.
I don't think you can set up a smart playlist on your iPhone though. Is the only way to sync to the watch manually by selecting specific albums and playlists? I have my watch set to sync recently played music, but it only copies over about a gig worth of music. Would like to use the full 8GB that my series 5 allows, but not have to go through and select specific playlists.
If Watchos only lets you use 25% of the storage for media, I don't mind that, but I can't get much Music synced over to my series 5. Perhaps my settings need some tweaking.
Is it possible to set your phone to sync a subset of your music to fit in that alotted media storage size? I want my watch to act like my old iPod nano. Since that 4th gen nano only had 16GB, iTunes created a playlist that matched its capacity and populated it. I could then add and delete songs from it, and it would update on the nano whenever I plugged it in.
I don't think you can set up a smart playlist on your iPhone though. Is the only way to sync to the watch manually by selecting specific albums and playlists? I have my watch set to sync recently played music, but it only copies over about a gig worth of music. Would like to use the full 8GB that my series 5 allows, but not have to go through and select specific playlists.
If your other AW4 is lost, stolen, or broken, it's better to keep this one as a backup. Luckily, we saved this AW4 as a backup when my other one broke for good.
Maybe someone should start a petition on change.org and demand Apple to make the black version for AWU2. 🤣
I still have a series 0 stainless that I can use as a back up LOL 😂
