Apple Watch Series 7 review

The display is bigger, and bigger is better. With more screen, the smartwatch becomes more and more like a mini iPhone for the wrist, and that is great.

The Apple Watch is one of the industry’s leading smartwatches, and each new generation has made it the wearable of choice for anyone who uses an iPhone. the Apple Watch has been improved over many generations, each time bringing new features and capabilities. The new Apple Watch Series 7, released this year, retains features introduced last year with the Series 6, such as SpO2 measurement, but also features a larger display, a new S7 SiP, a crack-resistant display, and faster charging. So is the Apple Watch Series 7 a big leap forward from Series 6 or just a small iterative step? To find out, we tested the Apple Watch Series 7.

Apple’s latest smartwatch is mostly an incremental upgrade from the Apple Watch 6, with 18 hours of battery life, the same CPU and no new health features. But the enlarged display is a real bummer, making it hard to go back to the previous generation models. The Series 7’s large display makes wearable computing work for more mundane applications and makes it practical to be productive from your wrist. We are here with our Apple Watch Series 7 review you can read.

You’ll find all the changes, big and small, that make it the best smartwatch you can buy. Check out our Apple Watch 7 tips and guides on how to use the Apple Watch for more ways to use Apple’s smartwatch. We can also tell you which Apple Watch settings you should enable right away. From a full QWERTY keyboard and larger calculator buttons to a brighter always-on mode and exclusive watch faces, the Apple Watch 7 offers a tailored to customize control center in watchOS 8 you won’t get on the Apple Watch SE or Apple Watch 3, both of which remain on sale. Faster charging, greater durability and contemporary case colors are almost afterthoughts, but nonetheless welcome.

Apple Watch Series 7 review: Design

Although the differences are fairly subtle, the larger screen is noticeable when you put the Series 7 and Series 6 watches right next to each other. A 20% increase in display area is not insignificant, and it’s nice that the edges around them are slimmer as well. This isn’t just an aesthetic effect. It also has an impact on usability: The UI buttons are larger, and there’s now enough screen real estate to introduce a full QWERTY keyboard for replying to messages right on the watch screen. This works about as well as you could ask for, even if dictating via Siri is still the most effective means of entering text on the Apple Watch.

One final note on the larger display. It also has a thicker glass (50% thicker in places, according to Apple) that has “refractive” edges that bend light so you can catch a glimpse of the edge of the display when you look at it from the side. Add to that a slightly rounder, softer overall shape, and the Series 7 looks even better than the Series 6. Elsewhere, the display technology has been improved, as evidenced by higher brightness when the watch is in wrist-down mode. Again, this is a relatively small change, but it improves the readability of the always-on display when you’re just looking down to check the time.

Finally, there is an entirely new color – green – while some of the other hues have been revised. The existing blues and reds are a wee bit different, the silver option has been replaced with “Starlight” (a very light gold), and “Space Grey” has been replaced with “Midnight”, which is more of a matte black than a dark gray.]

Apple Watch Series 7 review: Display

The larger display on the Series 7 is the biggest change that sets it apart from the Series 6. Apple has reduced the size of the bezels that frame the display to allow for a larger display without significantly changing the dimensions of the case. As a result, the Apple Watch Series 7 comes in 41 and 45 millimeters, while the Series 6 was available in 40 and 44 millimeters.

The watch itself is also technically a bit heavier; the 41-mm aluminum model weighs 32 grams compared to the 30.5 gram 40-mm Series 6, but this was not noticeable when wearing the watch. The Series 7 is also IP6X dust-protected and has a glass cover on the front that’s more than 50% thicker, though we haven’t had a chance to test it yet.

The corners have also been rounded and softened, but this can only be seen by taking a closer look at the watch in person. The aluminum models are also available in five new colors. Midnight, Starlight, Green, and now a brighter blue and red variant compared to the Series 6. I wore the Starlight model, which is a mix of gold and silver.

Apple Watch Series 7 review: Other Features

The Apple Watch Series 7, like its predecessors, is the Swiss Army Knife of smartwatches. WatchOS is a growing ecosystem, so if you have an iPhone, you’ll find that many of your existing apps already have Watch versions. However, you need an iPhone to get the most out of your Apple Watch – you even need an iPhone to set it up. Even though innovations like the App Store give the Watch more autonomy, you still need an iPhone to manage most content on the Watch.

The good news is that the Apple Watch Series 7 really packs a little bit of everything into its design. Blood oxygen monitor? Check. Fall detection? Check. EKG? Yep, all there, and all with Apple’s attention to user interface detail. Sleep tracking is also included, but it’s less successful – more on that shortly. As for fitness tracking, the Apple Watch offers a growing list of workout options.

You’ll find tai chi, Pilates, dancing, hiking and more alongside the standard running, cycling and walking options. It even connects to compatible devices at your gym, as long as they use Apple’s GymKit technology. You can also install third-party options, such as Strava, which offers native WatchOS apps. You can also connect the Apple Watch directly to your Bluetooth headphones and streaming music from Apple Music and other providers like Spotify, as well as play podcasts.

Apple Watch Series 7 review: Tracking

The Series 7 features the same watchOS 8 software as all Apple Watches since the 2015 Series 3, with the addition of portrait photo watch faces, iOS 15’s “Focus” notification feature, and the ability to set multiple timers at once. Text input has also been improved, including the ability to use a combination of voice input, scribble, emoji, and a full Qwerty keyboard.

There is also a redesigned meditation app that combines breath training and mindfulness.WatchOS 8 is the most supported and powerful smartwatch OS on the market, despite Google’s recent advancements with WearOS. You can expect at least five years of software support, including feature updates and security updates, which is far longer than any of its smartwatch competitors.

Apple Watch Series 7 review: Performance

If you’ve used an Apple Watch in the past, the experience will be very similar. And even if you haven’t, there’s no steep learning curve. The Series 7 offers a smooth, lag-free experience. Pressing the digital crown opens the app drawer on the Apple Watch, which can be used to zoom in/out and scroll through menus and notifications. Apple also added a sensor on the digital crown for measuring ECGs with the Apple Watch Series 7. we found the watch to be responsive to touch input, and the larger display compared to previous models makes it a bit easier to read content. The Contour interface highlights the Series 7’s new rounded screen edges, while the Modular Duo interface shows details about three complications at once.

The Apple Watch is known for its health and fitness tracking capabilities, and the Series 7 did not disappoint. the watch on our evening walks, and after covering a distance of 1 km, the Series 7 accurately displayed it. The Series 7 was also very accurate in counting steps: it measured exactly 1,000 steps after we manually counted the 1,000 steps.

However, the on-screen step counter updates a bit slowly. Apple prompts you to complete three activity rings each day that represent your exercise, movement, and standing goals. WatchOS also makes your fitness goals a game by constantly encouraging you to complete your rings throughout the day. There are also various challenges that you can participate in or complete goals to earn medals.

Apple Watch Series 7 review: Battery Life

At first glance, you might be disappointed that the new Apple Watch Series 7 comes with the same nebulous promise of “all-day” battery life as the Series 6. After using it for a few days and seeing the new display, we are actually thankful that the battery life hasn’t deteriorated from last year. our watch lasted a full day (workout at 7am until we turned it off at 10:30pm) and still had up to 47% power in the tank at the end of the day. After another workout at 7am, still had 28% left at 11:30am the next day.

Apple says that with the introduction of sleep monitoring on the Apple Watch, it has noticed a change in the way users use and charge their devices. Charging on the Apple Watch Series 7 is now 33% faster as users use their watch throughout the day, charge it before bed, and then put it back on to monitor their sleep instead of charging it overnight. To that end, you can charge your Series 7 for just eight minutes to provide a full 8 hours of sleep monitoring, and from zero to 80% takes just 45 minutes.

If, like, you don’t wear your watch while you sleep, you should charge your watch every 1.5 days, as opposed to every day on older models. If you own the Series 6, you’ll get an upgrade for faster charging, but not for longer life. But don’t kid yourself, the upgrade to charging is a big step and makes the Apple Watch a much more reliable companion if sleep monitoring is important to you. And as I said, the fact that battery life hasn’t deteriorated given the improvements to the Watch’s display is an achievement in and of itself.

Configurations Options

Let’s face it, there’s no serious competition for the Apple Watch in the smartwatch space. If you want a wearable with a dynamic app-based ecosystem that works seamlessly with your phone and can do everything you’d expect from a smartwatch – and you happen to be an iPhone user – this is still the smartwatch to buy. That’s reflected in the price, too, with the 45mm smartwatch starting at £449 and the smaller 41mm model costing £419. Cellular connectivity can be added for an extra £100.

If you’re willing to scale down your smart feature demands a bit, however, there are plenty of alternatives. If you’re looking to buy the Apple Watch Series 7 primarily for its fitness features, you might want to opt for one of Garmin’s sports watches – it can save you a lot of money. One of our favorite mid-priced watches is the Forerunner 245 Music for €300, but you can also buy a Garmin Fenix 6 for €324, which can do a bit more.

Conclusion

The Apple Watch Series 7 is the first choice for most iPhone users it fits seamlessly into the Apple ecosystem, is powerful, looks good, and has a number of sensors and features to monitor health and fitness. With a starting price of $400, the Series 7 is expensive, and we wouldn’t be surprised if most people don’t need many of the advanced sensors, like the ECG or blood oxygen sensor.

Personally, we couldn’t buy a smartwatch without a display after using one. It’s just much more natural to quickly look at the time without lifting your arm or pressing a button. Whether you should upgrade is a tough question. If you haven’t upgraded to an older model when the Series 6 launched, then there’s no reason for you to upgrade to the Series 7 now. Simply put, while the Series 7 is an impressive machine, there’s not much that makes it that much more attractive than the Series 6.

Dian Erwin
Dian Erwin
Dian Erwin is a review writer for Bollyinside, covering topics related to computing, such as laptops, tablets, phones, and other hardware. Dian spends much too much of his free time on Twitter, reading speculative fiction novels, playing video games, and reading comic books. He also enjoys reading video game manuals.

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The Apple Watch Series 7 is the first choice for most iPhone users it fits seamlessly into the Apple ecosystem, is powerful, looks good, and has a number of sensors and features to monitor health and fitness.Apple Watch Series 7 review