JULY 2019 PCWorld 33Female health tracking for Apple Watch is a great feature, but it’s overdue.
which pioneered slide typing when the
iPhone was just a glimmer in Steve Jobs’s eye,
Google has been using swipes on its Gboard
keyboard since 2016 when it launched
exclusively on...wait for it...iOS.
- FEMALE HEALTH
TRACKING
The Apple Watch picked up a bunch of new
health and fitness features with watchOS 6,
but none are more important for women than
the Cycle Tracking app, which lets users log
period flow level and symptoms on their
wrist. Fitbit launched female health tracking
on your wrist, and period-tracking app Clue
already offers an Apple Watch app. So while
we commend Apple’s efforts here, it’s more of
an “it’s-about-time” feature rather than an
innovative one.
10. VOICE CONTROL
One of the more touching demonstrations
during the WWDC keynote was watching a
Mac user in a wheelchair effortlessly navigate
his Mac, share photos, and send messages, all
without a mouse. It’s all part of Apple’s new
Voice Control feature that uses comprehensive
commands to interact with apps and
numbered labels to make selecting and
clicking items on the screen easier. But while
it’s sure to be a life-changing feature for
impaired Mac users, they could have been
using it all along if they had bought a Windows
10 PC. Windows Speech Recognition (which
has actually been around since Windows 7) is a
robust and comprehensive way to control
every inch of your PC without a mouse or a
keyboard, and uses a similar numbering and
grid method. So score one for Windows.