After the jug of cold water that users of the Apple Watch Series 0 (original model) take with us after hearing the news that this you will not receive the new version watchOS 5 from AppleWe have to talk about a couple of improvements that have been implemented in this version for the rest of the models.
Today also coincides with the good news for users of Mexico, Brazil, South Korea and the UAE that will see the arrival of the Series 3 LTE model next week. Apple plans to launch this model for them in a few hours and so it is good to remember the new functions Activity competitions and automatic training detection.
Activity Competitions
In this case, what we have is a new challenge for users who perform physical activity and monitor it on the Apple smart watch. To continue promoting Activity Sharing, watchOS 5 will allow users to invite other Apple Watch owners to participate in a seven-day Activity competition.
As they progress they will get points for closing the activity rings and they will receive notifications with training tips to stay motivated and get the week through. Users can challenge a friend who uses Share Activity to a 7-day competition and in this way physical exercise is encouraged one more point between them.
Automatic training detection
Apple adds an interesting function that we will have to really see its real operation and that is that the system has to be very precise to detect a specific physical activity at the moment we start doing it, it is not worth that It happens with some activity meters that tell us that we are cycling when we are really circulating with a motorcycle. Let's hope they fine-tune this topic well so as not to have problems, in any case it can be activated or deactivated manually in case it does not work well in some cases.
For the most popular Apple Watch workouts and the ones we use the most on a daily basis, automatic training detection sends an alert to start the appropriate exercise and makes it count retroactively. This feature also sends a reminder to end the session after a certain time of inactivity if the user forgets it and therefore it can be a good way to count the physical exercise we do.