WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.280 Nearly two years ago today, I unboxed the Apple Watch Series 7 here on ShortCircuit, 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:09.680 and in comparison to my Series 3, I was convinced I needed an upgrade. 00:00:09.680 --> 00:00:19.680 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. 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:24.560 Last time I unboxed this, completely wrong, and so I hope I'm doing it justice this time 00:00:24.560 --> 00:00:27.840 by doing it properly. Oh, it's so beautiful. 00:00:27.840 --> 00:00:34.960 So for Series 9, they've released the traditional aluminum cases in colors that we've seen before, 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:41.360 midnight, starlight, silver, and red, but a new addition is the pink color, which I have here. 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:46.320 They also offer stainless steel options. Wow, I do really like this sort of baby pink. 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:53.120 It's similar to the iPhone 15, which I recently unboxed here on ShortCircuit as well. 00:00:53.120 --> 00:01:00.240 Something cool to mention is that when you buy the aluminum case and the sport loop band, 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:05.360 these are carbon neutral, which is, in my opinion, quite a big step for Apple. 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:09.760 My only gripe, however, is this is the only combination that is carbon neutral. 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:15.600 Aside from that, if you get a different case type or a different band type, it won't be. 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:21.280 I love these sport loop bands too, and we also have the new braided cable, 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:25.520 but this one is USB-C, similar to the Series 7 and 8. 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:28.480 It's so nice seeing packaging that's entirely paper. 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.560 That's something that we try to do here within Creator Warehouse, 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:37.520 and it's cool seeing a lot larger companies also kind of following that trend. 00:01:37.520 --> 00:01:42.240 Although paper isn't necessarily good for the environment either, it is better than plastic, 00:01:42.240 --> 00:01:44.800 so I'll try not to hit the TV this time. 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:49.280 I hit it every time! 00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:56.880 I swear, every time I unbox an Apple Watch, it's always a different style band. 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:01.120 Set up as a new Apple Watch. Continue. Let's try this again. 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:06.160 Last time I had the exact same issue, and we ended up having to use Jono's phone to pair it. 00:02:06.160 --> 00:02:09.440 It's just always chaos with me. I don't understand. 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:16.480 Yay! It's connected. I would love to see one day somebody like walking around with two Apple Watches on their wrist. 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:24.000 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. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.600 For something like answering and reading messages when you're out in the sun, 00:02:27.600 --> 00:02:30.560 maybe at the beach, or just out and about in the summertime, 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:37.840 I think that improvement can make a huge difference. However, with that said, similarly to its predecessors, 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:41.680 this series has a 326 pixel per inch display. 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:46.000 A look over the body, we have the digital crown similar to the previous models, 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.480 which takes you to your applications, and if you double tap the digital crown, 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:55.680 it will take you to your recently used apps. Obviously, I haven't used any, so there are none here. 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.840 But once you're getting to know your Apple Watch, this is super convenient. 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:03.200 We also have the side button, which takes you to your control center, 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:07.280 or if you press and hold, it will take you to the emergency, 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:14.880 and the on and off. The series 9 has an S9 dual core CPU with 5.6 billion transistors, 00:03:14.880 --> 00:03:21.760 that is 60% more than the series 8. Along with this, they've also upgraded the neural processing engine to have four cores 00:03:21.760 --> 00:03:27.040 instead of two, which we saw with the previous model. With this upgrade, we've seen new benefits. 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:30.480 For example, Siri has been improved to be on device. 00:03:30.480 --> 00:03:35.920 This is super awesome when it comes to things like setting alarms, or taking notes, 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:41.280 anything where you don't need to connect to the internet or have cellular service, 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:47.120 she can do. Let's try it. Set an alarm for 5.30pm. 00:03:51.440 --> 00:03:55.440 Make a note to tell me I need to grab cheese when I get groceries. 00:03:56.160 --> 00:03:59.760 Sorry, I can't help you with notes on Apple Watch. 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.400 Let me redact that statement. It doesn't work for notes. 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:12.960 It does work for, oh, and starting workouts. 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:16.080 What if I'm going to yoga? Start yoga workout. 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:19.360 Beautiful. 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:26.260 I want to do yoga now. Oh. 00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:30.720 And also dictation is 25% more accurate. 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:37.440 Similarly to the iPhone 15, they've also integrated the generation 2 ultra wide band chip, 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:40.640 which allows for more precise find my. 00:04:40.640 --> 00:04:44.320 I would love to try it out because I didn't get a chance to do that 00:04:44.320 --> 00:04:50.000 previously when I was unboxing the 15, but now I can use my watch to find my iPhone. 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.600 Okay, here, take this. Put it somewhere, hide it from me. 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:57.520 So I'll go to find my while he's running away with the phone. 00:04:58.080 --> 00:04:59.120 Open find my. 00:05:03.200 --> 00:05:06.480 Pardon me, Apple? Sign into iCloud. 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:14.400 It's just an endless cycle of you need to do this before you could do this. 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:19.920 Am I not going to be able to try find my again for the second ShortCircuit? 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:27.920 Oh, there. Okay, let's let's go. 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:30.800 I'm just stupid. Let's go. Look at that. 00:05:31.520 --> 00:05:34.720 That's pretty, pretty handy. Oh, wow. Oh, that is really cool. I didn't. 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:38.880 Yeah. Okay. It seems like we're going to wait and set. Let's see if there's anything. 00:05:40.400 --> 00:05:43.520 I hear it. Is it in the drawer? Do it again. 00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:49.440 Oh, there she is. Oh, good job. 00:05:50.640 --> 00:05:51.360 She's been found. 00:05:53.760 --> 00:06:00.160 I will say that was much easier than the find my that I've been using with air tags on my iPhone 12. 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:04.320 So it's definitely been an upgrade. The gesture. 00:06:04.960 --> 00:06:09.120 Okay. One of the biggest upgrades they wanted to mention was double tap. 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:14.400 I don't have a chance to try it out today because unfortunately it didn't launch with the Apple Watch 00:06:14.400 --> 00:06:18.400 and we have to wait until the upgrade. Oh, is it? We can upgrade to the beta. 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:24.640 Okay. Beta updates. To install the update Apple Watch must be connected to its charger and charged to at least 50%. 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:32.080 Battery is at 39%. We're doing our own little science experiment and seeing how long it takes to charge from 39% to 50%. 00:06:32.880 --> 00:06:33.920 Set a stopwatch. 00:06:37.520 --> 00:06:40.720 Oh, me too. Yeah. 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:44.240 Meditate for eight hours. Get heart rate down to zero. 00:06:45.200 --> 00:06:55.040 14 minutes and 11 seconds it took for it to charge from 39% to 50% and then update to the beta. 00:06:55.040 --> 00:07:00.720 The most notable upgrade of the series nine, the new double tap gesture, 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:05.680 which essentially acts as like your primary button so you can use it to answer phone calls, 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:10.320 reply to text messages, pause and play music, etc. 00:07:10.320 --> 00:07:17.280 Not me questioning myself. While doing my series seven unboxing, I tried out a feature that Apple calls assistive touch. 00:07:17.280 --> 00:07:21.280 It essentially allows you to use your Apple Watch with one hand by setting up gestures, 00:07:21.280 --> 00:07:25.200 such as clench, which then trigger a certain action. 00:07:25.200 --> 00:07:30.640 Apple says that the double tap is so complex that it requires the four-core neural processing 00:07:30.640 --> 00:07:33.360 engine in order to detect it. Gestures. There we are. 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:37.040 Double tap is on. Oh, there we are. 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:39.520 Okay. That's cool. 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:47.040 Then how do I, how do I choose one? Let's try the stopwatch. 00:07:48.080 --> 00:07:53.200 Go. Okay, it's working and stop. 00:07:55.440 --> 00:08:05.440 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 00:08:05.440 --> 00:08:10.240 to accurately track something that you're timing, like a run maybe. 00:08:12.080 --> 00:08:17.360 It's doing nothing. So far, not that impressed. 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:21.840 I'm honestly surprised that when you go into the gestures thing, it doesn't say like, 00:08:21.840 --> 00:08:23.840 hey, this is what this gesture will do. 00:08:28.320 --> 00:08:31.920 What the heck? Is it only through Apple music? 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:39.120 Does anybody have Apple music? For a feature that's been widely talked about, it didn't work as well as I had hoped. 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:42.320 That delay thing really, really gets me. 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:46.560 And hopefully with the new version, it will be less significant. 00:08:46.560 --> 00:08:50.080 But for now, let's just wait and see what Apple has in store for us. 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:55.440 Another hardware thing to note is similar to every other standard Apple watch. 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:59.520 The battery life continues to stay at an estimated 18 hours. 00:08:59.520 --> 00:09:03.280 But when it comes to storage, they've actually increased it to 64 gigabytes, 00:09:03.280 --> 00:09:07.200 whereas the Series 8 had half as much with 32 gigabytes. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:17.200 Now for my final thoughts. Similar to my iPhone 15 unboxing, I don't necessarily think that these new additions 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:20.960 justify an upgrade from a Series 6 onwards. 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:27.440 But if you have a Series 3 or a Series 4, this would be an awesome upgrade. 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:32.720 So at the end of the day, it's up to you. The standard aluminum models start at $399 USD. 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:36.400 And if you're looking to upgrade to a more premium option like the stainless steel, 00:09:36.400 --> 00:09:38.400 those will start at $699 USD. 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:47.280 That was easy. I think going 100% carbon neutral is a great direction for Apple. 00:09:47.280 --> 00:09:53.120 And that's the thing, I hope that they push more. If you're interested in watching another Apple Watch video, 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:56.240 I would recommend watching my Series 7 Apple Watch video 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:00.000 or more recently, Nick did an unboxing of the Series 2 Ultra. 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.440 So go check those out. Subscribe to ShortCircuit and thanks for watching. 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:11.120 Bye. My Series 7 is my daytime watch and my Series 9 is my nighttime watch.