watchOS 8 began appearing at WWDC 2021. The first new features come from Activity, Training and Apple Fitness +, everything related to sport on our wrist. New workouts have been introduced, the Breathe app has been redesigned giving it new forms of meditation and respiratory rate measurements are added to the Sleep app. Excellent news that prepares the arrival of the Apple Watch Series 7.
Health, training and more on watchOS 8
watchOS 8 introduces two new workouts in the Train app: Tai Chi and Pilates. Two new workouts that join existing ones that allow us to increase more and more the versatility of the activities that we can record with our Apple Watch. There is also news in the app Breathe, which makes a design leap with new animations and incorporating meditation into the available features.
They were also included new workouts in Apple Fitness + that Apple called Spotlight on the artists, directed formations with the most popular songs of the moment. Another attraction for users who subscribe to this service and who want to have fun while playing sports.
On the other hand, and referring to the health sector, the possibility of measuring respiratory rate has been added to observe with other parameters our health when we sleep. On the other hand, although it has not been officially presented, it We will have the official calculator app in watchOS 8, something that we have been asking for for years and also a contacts app, as rumors of the last few weeks have been announced.
