You can control this watch without touching it (allegedly) - Apple Watch Series 9

Sarah has been an Apple user for a while now, so when Apple announced their yearly Watch update with the new Series 9, she was curious to see if the Series 8 she got last year was suddenly out of date. With faster processing speeds, Siri on device, and a new double tap gesture, are these new features worth the upgrade or is her purchase safe for another year?

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 It's been two long years...
0:26 Colours and unboxing
1:54 Sponsor - Bandwerk
2:25 Setup
2:51 Display and body walkthrough
3:44 SoC specs and Siri upgrades
5:06 Trying the upgraded FindMy
6:38 Double Tap gesture controls
9:42 Overall thoughts and pricing
10:36 Outro

[pittste]

I think Sarah is great for this because she's kinda the target audience, those who are open to tech but aren't tech heads like a lot of us

[SangAcquiescentFroid]

Props to the editor who added the cracked glass mark to the TV after Sarah threw the box at it

[sireuchre]

Linus drops stuff, Sarah hits things.

[asdfjoe]

Wow, Siri is on the device now. No need to take out your phone to be disappointed by Apple AI.

[goricanec]

Sarah’s really fun host. She should do more unboxings.

[Saaihead]

Yup, I had a series 3 and upgraded to series 9... HUGE upgrade. Also, I love Sarah's reviews, can we have more of those? :)

[Alactrium]

The edit on the TV was brutal, I hope she never saw this video 😂

[SNP]

As a woman, I like seeing Sarah review and wear different tech products like this. When I watch reviews for Apple products, it’s mostly men who encourage getting the max size in phones or watches or other brands’ headphones saying it’s worth the upgrade, but it’s much easier for me to get an idea for what size to get when occasionally other women review these products so I don’t have absurdly large tech on my arm and can tell what size to order since I also don’t have an Apple Store near me to be able to go and look at things beforehand. Just a minor thing but I appreciate it and she has a fun personality too! Thanks for the variety on this channel.

[LeoAngora]

I love Sara's style, feels happy and natural, refreshingly different from the bro-type of her colleagues.

[ColJonSquall]

I always enjoy the Sarah videos, such a fun time whenever she hosts, lol.

[rns]

Its actually 1 sec and 500 milisec to detect, not 1 sec and 50 milisec.
This pinch feature is useful for people who only have 1 hand.
The major feature will be when apple watch can detect butt clench so you can set more custom actions.

[smashallpots]

i love sarah she is so bubbly and fun she has a smile that just makes you happy

[heyspookyboogie]

The assistive touch double tap / clench aren’t particularly consistent. Either lots of false triggers or you have to go through extra steps of an activation gesture. So far it hasn’t seemed like the S9 version makes a meaningful difference.

[bubbledoubletrouble]

8:34 Those are hundredths of a second, not milliseconds. Or you could just say “ about one and a half seconds”.

[cornbreadcuban]

Would be great to point out how meaningless of the carbon rating system is and how it’s gamed.

[LordWaldema]

I'm not a potential customer for an apple watch but i really liked the video just the way sarah does it. My only criticism is that she repeated some the meaningless marketing blabla from apple, like probably noone can make something of the amount of "neural cores" or transistors, it's just something apple puts in their keynote thats supposed to make people go "oooh" and "aaaah"😅

[huskyspade]

Love seeing more Sarah videos! Keep up the great work LMG!

[xCrusaderx]

When the double tap was announced and people online started pointing out that assistive touch already provides that functionality, I tried it out on my SE and I use it all the time now. Mostly for playing/pausing music and returning to the watch face, but I find it to work pretty well and I really enjoy the feature.
I still can’t figure out what the difference between the new double tap functionality and assistive touch is…

[megatryn]

I see Sarah, I click. One of my favouritest hosts, allways a fun time!

[brianwest]

This girl is great! Fun to watch and not like a robot like a lot of other tech reviewer videos I watch and fall asleep too. Looks like she is having fun. Love the humor. Great video!