WatchOS 5
Today we are going to explain how the shortcuts in WatchOS 5 are considerably improved. If you have aApple Watch and the new operating system, this interests you for sure.
WatchOS 5 has been a breakthrough for our Apple smartwatches. And it is that now everything works much better, the whole system is much more fluid. If we look at one of the first versions of this WatchOS, we can see the great difference and evolution of these small devices.
From this operating system, we are going to tell you about the evolution of the shortcuts and how they have improved compared to its predecessor.
Shortcuts in WatchOS 5 are greatly improved
In this WatchOS 5, now at the top of our screen, we will see that the red dot that we used to see when we had a notification has a new "friend". Now, apart from showing us that red notification dot, we have the shortcuts available.
These circles with the image of an app mean that those apps are running in the background. For example, look at the following images
New icons in shortcuts
We can see that in the first one, the maps app is running in the background. In the second sphere we see that a call is being executed. We can see our sphere and have a direct access to the function that we are executing in the background.
This is useful for, for example, when we do a training session and we don't want to see the training interface.While we exercise we can go to see our sphere and have a direct access, with the little circle and the image of the training app, at the top of the screen.
This way, now everything is much faster. So just by clicking on the icon that appears, we go directly to the app that we are running in the background.
At the moment only the native applications maps, training, telephone and now it sounds are compatible. We hope that in the future more will be added to this function and, above all, third-party apps.
As we have been saying for quite some time, this watch is becoming more and more productive and for those of us who have it, we cannot live without it.
