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Nearly two years ago today, I unboxed the Apple Watch Series 7 here on ShortCircuit,

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and in comparison to my Series 3, I was convinced I needed an upgrade.

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So when the Series 8 came out, I bought myself one. Now I'm here unboxing the Apple Watch Series 9, and I'm interested to see if I have similar thoughts.

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Last time I unboxed this, completely wrong, and so I hope I'm doing it justice this time

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by doing it properly. Oh, it's so beautiful.

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So for Series 9, they've released the traditional aluminum cases in colors that we've seen before,

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midnight, starlight, silver, and red, but a new addition is the pink color, which I have here.

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They also offer stainless steel options. Wow, I do really like this sort of baby pink.

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It's similar to the iPhone 15, which I recently unboxed here on ShortCircuit as well.

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Something cool to mention is that when you buy the aluminum case and the sport loop band,

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these are carbon neutral, which is, in my opinion, quite a big step for Apple.

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My only gripe, however, is this is the only combination that is carbon neutral.

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Aside from that, if you get a different case type or a different band type, it won't be.

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I love these sport loop bands too, and we also have the new braided cable,

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but this one is USB-C, similar to the Series 7 and 8.

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It's so nice seeing packaging that's entirely paper.

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That's something that we try to do here within Creator Warehouse,

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and it's cool seeing a lot larger companies also kind of following that trend.

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Although paper isn't necessarily good for the environment either, it is better than plastic,

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so I'll try not to hit the TV this time.

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I hit it every time!

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I swear, every time I unbox an Apple Watch, it's always a different style band.

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Set up as a new Apple Watch. Continue. Let's try this again.

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Last time I had the exact same issue, and we ended up having to use Jono's phone to pair it.

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It's just always chaos with me. I don't understand.

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Yay! It's connected. I would love to see one day somebody like walking around with two Apple Watches on their wrist.

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So the first thing to know is the display. The display is 2,000 nits, which in comparison to the 1,000 nits of the 8, it's quite the upgrade.

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For something like answering and reading messages when you're out in the sun,

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maybe at the beach, or just out and about in the summertime,

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I think that improvement can make a huge difference. However, with that said, similarly to its predecessors,

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this series has a 326 pixel per inch display.

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A look over the body, we have the digital crown similar to the previous models,

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which takes you to your applications, and if you double tap the digital crown,

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it will take you to your recently used apps. Obviously, I haven't used any, so there are none here.

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But once you're getting to know your Apple Watch, this is super convenient.

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We also have the side button, which takes you to your control center,

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or if you press and hold, it will take you to the emergency,

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and the on and off. The series 9 has an S9 dual core CPU with 5.6 billion transistors,

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that is 60% more than the series 8. Along with this, they've also upgraded the neural processing engine to have four cores

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instead of two, which we saw with the previous model. With this upgrade, we've seen new benefits.

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For example, Siri has been improved to be on device.

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This is super awesome when it comes to things like setting alarms, or taking notes,

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anything where you don't need to connect to the internet or have cellular service,

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she can do. Let's try it. Set an alarm for 5.30pm.

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Make a note to tell me I need to grab cheese when I get groceries.

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Sorry, I can't help you with notes on Apple Watch.

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Let me redact that statement. It doesn't work for notes.

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It does work for, oh, and starting workouts.

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What if I'm going to yoga? Start yoga workout.

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Beautiful.

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I want to do yoga now. Oh.

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And also dictation is 25% more accurate.

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Similarly to the iPhone 15, they've also integrated the generation 2 ultra wide band chip,

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which allows for more precise find my.

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I would love to try it out because I didn't get a chance to do that

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previously when I was unboxing the 15, but now I can use my watch to find my iPhone.

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Okay, here, take this. Put it somewhere, hide it from me.

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So I'll go to find my while he's running away with the phone.

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Open find my.

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Pardon me, Apple? Sign into iCloud.

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It's just an endless cycle of you need to do this before you could do this.

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Am I not going to be able to try find my again for the second ShortCircuit?

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Oh, there. Okay, let's let's go.

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I'm just stupid. Let's go. Look at that.

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That's pretty, pretty handy. Oh, wow. Oh, that is really cool. I didn't.

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Yeah. Okay. It seems like we're going to wait and set. Let's see if there's anything.

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I hear it. Is it in the drawer? Do it again.

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Oh, there she is. Oh, good job.

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She's been found.

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I will say that was much easier than the find my that I've been using with air tags on my iPhone 12.

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So it's definitely been an upgrade. The gesture.

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Okay. One of the biggest upgrades they wanted to mention was double tap.

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I don't have a chance to try it out today because unfortunately it didn't launch with the Apple Watch

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and we have to wait until the upgrade. Oh, is it? We can upgrade to the beta.

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Okay. Beta updates. To install the update Apple Watch must be connected to its charger and charged to at least 50%.

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Battery is at 39%. We're doing our own little science experiment and seeing how long it takes to charge from 39% to 50%.

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Set a stopwatch.

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Oh, me too. Yeah.

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Meditate for eight hours. Get heart rate down to zero.

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14 minutes and 11 seconds it took for it to charge from 39% to 50% and then update to the beta.

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The most notable upgrade of the series nine, the new double tap gesture,

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which essentially acts as like your primary button so you can use it to answer phone calls,

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reply to text messages, pause and play music, etc.

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Not me questioning myself. While doing my series seven unboxing, I tried out a feature that Apple calls assistive touch.

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It essentially allows you to use your Apple Watch with one hand by setting up gestures,

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such as clench, which then trigger a certain action.

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Apple says that the double tap is so complex that it requires the four-core neural processing

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engine in order to detect it. Gestures. There we are.

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Double tap is on. Oh, there we are.

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Okay. That's cool.

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Then how do I, how do I choose one? Let's try the stopwatch.

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Go. Okay, it's working and stop.

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It takes a little bit of time to react to the gesture. Roughly a second and 50 milliseconds to react, which isn't necessarily ideal if you're trying

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to accurately track something that you're timing, like a run maybe.

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It's doing nothing. So far, not that impressed.

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I'm honestly surprised that when you go into the gestures thing, it doesn't say like,

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hey, this is what this gesture will do.

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What the heck? Is it only through Apple music?

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Does anybody have Apple music? For a feature that's been widely talked about, it didn't work as well as I had hoped.

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That delay thing really, really gets me.

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And hopefully with the new version, it will be less significant.

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But for now, let's just wait and see what Apple has in store for us.

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Another hardware thing to note is similar to every other standard Apple watch.

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The battery life continues to stay at an estimated 18 hours.

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But when it comes to storage, they've actually increased it to 64 gigabytes,

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whereas the Series 8 had half as much with 32 gigabytes.

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Now for my final thoughts. Similar to my iPhone 15 unboxing, I don't necessarily think that these new additions

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justify an upgrade from a Series 6 onwards.

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But if you have a Series 3 or a Series 4, this would be an awesome upgrade.

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So at the end of the day, it's up to you. The standard aluminum models start at $399 USD.

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And if you're looking to upgrade to a more premium option like the stainless steel,

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those will start at $699 USD.

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That was easy. I think going 100% carbon neutral is a great direction for Apple.

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And that's the thing, I hope that they push more. If you're interested in watching another Apple Watch video,

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I would recommend watching my Series 7 Apple Watch video

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or more recently, Nick did an unboxing of the Series 2 Ultra.

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So go check those out. Subscribe to ShortCircuit and thanks for watching.

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Bye. My Series 7 is my daytime watch and my Series 9 is my nighttime watch.