Apple recently announced the Apple Watch Series 9 which includes some hardware changes and is the company’s first carbon-neutral product; it features the same design as its predecessors – Apple Watch Series 8 and Apple Watch Series 7 – and comes in two case sizes of 41mm and 45mm.
Apple Watch Series 9 offers a brighter display which has a maximum brightness of 2,000 nits, twice as much as the previous generation; the display is also capable of shining as low as one nit for dark environments.
The device is available in aluminum and stainless-steel finishes; for the aluminum version, colors include: starlight, midnight, silver, (PRODUCT)RED, and pink; while the stainless steel version is available in gold, silver, and graphite colors.
The Apple Watch Series 9 includes the S9 processor with 64GB of storage and an improved machine learning algorithm which enables double tap gestures.
The second-generation ultra-wideband chip on the Apple Watch Series 9 enables precision finding for the iPhone 15 family and homepod integration.
Apple Watch Series 9’s packaging is now redesigned to be 100% fiber-based and carbon-neutral; each carbon-neutral Apple Watch model uses clean electricity for manufacturing and product use, 30% recycled or renewable material by weight and 50% of shipping without the use of air transportation.
The Apple Watch Series 9 was sold by Apple from September 22, 2023, to September 2024; it came in at the same price range as its predecessors.
The device includes no main change to the battery and connectivity, and its health sensors remain unchanged.
The watchOS 11 powers Apple Watch Series 9 with some new features like on-device Siri requests, smart stack widgets, among other things.
Apple released watchOS 11 to Apple Watch users which includes Apple Intelligence-powered customizable activity rings, a Vitals app, and Training Load.
Apple announced that it may stop selling the Apple Watch Series 9 in the United States, owing to a court demanding the company to infringe blood oxygen monitoring patents.
Third-party stores still have the Apple Watch Series 9 available, and users can buy it from these places if interested.