DECEMBER 2019 MACWORLD 83excellent library that’s already in place.
Even small features such as
International emergency calling—where
your watch will recognize where you are
and automatically call local emergency
services if you’re traveling—are
leaps and bounds ahead of
what’s offered on other
smartwatches.
Finally getting a calculator
is nice, but Apple’s watch apps
are at their best when they’re
doing things you won’t need as
often. Noise and Compass, as
well as Series 4’s ECG, all drive
home just how advanced the
Apple Watch is, not to mention
the thousands of apps that are
available to download right on
your wrist.
You can now download apps without
needing to go to your phone, and it’s as
fast and easy as it is on your phone. Apps
still aren’t completely independent—when
you install an app on your watch a
companion app will install on
your phone, and if you delete
the phone app it will delete
from your watch—but it makes
the Apple Watch feel much
more like a standalone device.
And it’s light years more
pleasant than the Google Play
store on Wear OS.
Part of that’s due to the S5
processor, which runs circles
around the Wear 2100 chip that
powers most Wear OS
watches, but it’s also becauseYou won’t use the Compass on your Apple Watch Series 5
all that often, but it’s nice to have.
You can download apps right on your wrist with watchOS
6 on the Apple Watch.