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Three new features you may not know about watchOS 5

We know the watchOS 5 at WWDC18 and, over the past few months, we’ve been following the news and features of the watch’s operating system as Apple was releasing its beta versions. After ten test versions, this week finally the final version of watchOS 5 was released to the general public and we were able to install the system on our watches in order to take advantage of the news. One of them, however, nobody expected.

Until then, the Apple Watch (from the first generation to the Series 3) was able to detect high heart rates – a feature, by the way, that was quite successful and saved a few dozen (or hundreds, you know) lives out there.

Apple Watch Series 4 sensors

With the launch of the Apple Watch Series 4, Apple wisely improved the sensor responsible for this feature and added two more types of monitoring: low heart rate and atrial fibrillation (thanks to the possibility of doing an ECG – something that will be released later this year to American users).

WatchOS 5 beats

Surprise, like the AppleInsider informed, is that monitoring of low heart rate is a novelty of watchOS 5 – not the Apple Watch Series 4. This means that owners of Watches Series 3, 2 or 1 (the original Watch is unfortunately not compatible with watchOS 5 ) now have this feature to control heart health.

WatchOS 5 beats

To use the feature, you need to open the Beats app on your watch and activate it; in the Watch app, on the iPhone, you can also open the Beats app to set the minimum BPM according to your preference.

And since we are talking about news, the two below are not exactly surprising since they are even included in the official watchOS 5 page, however they were very little commented and you may not know them.

Notifications on watchOS 5

The first is that, as with iPhones and iPads, the Apple Watch now groups notifications from the same application; you can then get rid of them at once or tap to expand them.

With expanded notifications, the behavior is the same as a normal notification, that is, you can slide to the side to get rid of them or even touch the “…” and choose between the options “Receive in Silence” or “Disable in Apple Watch ”- just don’t choose these options in the app MacMagazineafter all, you don’t want to miss any news from the biggest and best site about Apple in Brazil. ?

The second is that watchOS now has automatic exercise detection. Apple Watch notifies you if you’re doing certain types of exercise and sends an alert if you forget to sign in to the app.

That in itself you could already know. What you don’t necessarily know, like the Marcus Mendes informed, is that this resource waits about 15 minutes to be almost sure that you are doing an activity and, yes, it shows the notification for you to start counting the time and calories – taking into account all the 15 minutes that you have already did (retroactively), of course!

Good news from watchOS 5, isn’t it? ?