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00:00Hey what's up, MKBHD here. First of all, welcome to Techtober. And I've been wearing this red
00:10Apple Watch Series 6 every day since the impressions video now, so I've been living with it, I've
00:16worked out with it, I've slept with it on, pretty much everything. So this is the full
00:20review. Oh and by the way, if you're wondering, like, hey, what about the video about this
00:23other thing? Or where's your video on X? Or insert review here. There's a lot going
00:30on right now in the tech world, that's why we named them Techtober and Techtember. So
00:34we're catching up to a lot of it, expect a lot of videos in October. But okay, so summary
00:39with this watch is, there's really not a whole ton of massively new stuff, as you already
00:44knew. Like, okay, so slightly brighter always-on display, cool. Slightly faster charging, cool.
00:52And also a slightly new sensor with the blood oxygen. But a lot of the stuff that makes
00:56the Apple Watch, the Apple Watch and so good, is of course in the software, watchOS, that's
01:02gonna make its way to other Apple Watches. But I think one of the biggest mistakes we
01:06make in the tech world, so often in these mature categories, is comparing the new thing
01:13to last year's thing. When most people buying the new thing aren't upgrading from last
01:18year's thing, that's actually a pretty rare use case. Most people have three, four-year-old
01:22plus versions that are aging by the time they upgrade to this one. So yeah, surprise, if
01:27you already have an Apple Watch Series 4 or 5, you don't need to upgrade. But if you
01:33don't have an Apple Watch yet, well, this is the most complete ecosystem bait yet. So
01:42let's just start with the headlining new feature, which is actually the blood oxygen sensor.
01:47It's not actually the first smartwatch to add this, but they did add it now to the
01:50Apple Watch. And well, it probably shouldn't be your reason to buy this watch. Now, I mean,
01:56for what it's worth, I've been getting pretty decent, accurate measurements as far as I
02:00can tell. You get it pretty snug, slide it down your wrist near your hand and sit still
02:05for a few seconds. Anything in the upper 90s is normal. And I've gotten like 98 to 100%
02:11every time I try it sitting down. Great. But if for some reason I stood up or moved
02:17around a little bit, or for whatever reason, I didn't get 98 and I got 88 for some reason,
02:23which would be a concerning actual measurement, I wouldn't really be freaking out at all
02:28because lots of people have gotten very inaccurate measurements or just had problems getting
02:33a good reliable measure at all. But for a little background, a dedicated blood oxygen
02:38sensor is normally worn on your fingertip, just like that. I actually learned this while
02:43I was working with David Blaine on the Ascension project. He needed one to be really accurate
02:49to actually tell if he was hypoxic or not, which would be dangerous. But you clamp it
02:53to your finger and it just measures the blood oxygen saturation by shining a light through
02:57your fingertip and then reading it on the other side. So it's going through your finger.
03:02Now the Apple Watch is attempting to get the same reading, but obviously in a non-ideal
03:06place on the back of your wrist. So it's shining into your wrist, but obviously can't
03:12read from the other side. So it's trying to read from the reflections and most blood
03:16oxygen sensors don't read this way for a reason. It's just much more difficult to get an accurate,
03:21reliable reading from this spot on your body. Now, actually, as Dave2D points out in his
03:26video, you can actually take the Apple Watch off and put it on your fingertip to get much
03:32more consistent readings. But yeah, if you're doing all that and you care that much about
03:38accurate blood oxygen readings, you should just grab a $25 pulse oximeter from Amazon
03:44and it will be way more accurate than any smartwatch. So yeah, this is much more just
03:48like a casual extra sensor to give you some new readings in the health app if you want
03:52to gamify it and track it. So if you go for hikes and stuff, then cool, you get to see,
03:57oh, my blood oxygen's 94 instead of 100, but you shouldn't be taking it to the doctor.
04:04Speaking of extra readings in the health app, sleep mode. So there's sleep tracking built
04:08into the Apple Watch now. It is actually a watchOS 7 feature. Again, so it's not like
04:12it's exclusive to the Series 6, but hey, I tested it. Like I said, I've been wearing
04:16it every day. I've been sleeping in the Apple Watch because I guess that's the Apple effect,
04:21getting people to try things. So when you're about to go to sleep, you swipe up control
04:24center, hit that little bedtime icon and the screen goes black and it starts sleep
04:29tracking. And really what I found is it doesn't track that much hardcore information. Like
04:34basically it's whether it thinks you're asleep or not, heart rate once in a while, trends
04:39up and down, things like that. Pretty casual, but nothing really groundbreaking. And people
04:43who already have been using third party Apple Watch apps to track sleep already know way
04:47more about their sleep than this will tell you. But like I said, it's just one more thing
04:51that's plugging into the health app and giving you a pretty good basic look at what's going
04:54on here. So, okay, it works and that's great and everything, but you know what the best
04:57part is? You know what the best part of wearing an Apple Watch to sleep actually is? It's
05:04the alarm. 100% it's the alarm. It just taps you awake just with a little haptic motor,
05:09no sound or anything. And that's been massively underrated. I really don't like wearing a
05:14thing like this to sleep, but the fact that it just taps me awake and I never have an
05:18actual alarm sound has been pretty sweet. But also Apple, I noticed it adds standing
05:25hours while I'm asleep. So I wake up every day with like two to four standing hours,
05:31which is kind of odd because I don't know about you, but I sleep lying down. But the
05:36charging question, the charging question is interesting now because if you wear the watch
05:40all day and then you wear it to sleep, when do you charge the thing? It does have slightly
05:44faster 90 minutes, zero to 100% charging, but when do you actually get it on the charger?
05:49For me, I found two times during the day and neither of them are a full charge, but the
05:53first one is like right when I like go shower at night after a workout or something, I'll
05:58pop it on the charger and that'll juice it up enough to last through the night. And then
06:02when I wake up in the morning, so it taps me awake and then I just take it off and put
06:07it on the charger and go through my morning routine. So it's just sitting on the charger,
06:11juicing up for the day. So it never actually gets to 100%. I'm just kind of always bouncing
06:16between 20 and 85%, which is actually better for battery health on the watch. And yeah,
06:22I never got it to die in a day again. So battery life on the watch is still good. It's still
06:27about what it's been for series four and five. And I also do have the always on display going.
06:32To me, the real best feature of the Apple watch series six is just the new S6 chip inside.
06:37Like that's what's giving you the great efficiency to last all day. That's what's giving you
06:41the brighter always on display. If you disable the always on display, you'll probably get
06:45even better battery life. And then it's enabling the faster charging that chip is giving you
06:50the great performance through watchOS 7, which now has faster snappier animations throughout
06:55the whole thing, which is great. Oh, and also the hand washing detection in watchOS 7 is
07:01kind of hilarious. Like it'll pick up that. Yes, I am washing my hands through the microphone
07:06and the movement it's sensing. And then it'll start some countdown timer based on when it
07:10thinks you started. And if you get to the end of the 20 seconds, great little soapy thumbs up
07:15thing. But if you don't get to the end of the 20 seconds, it just kind of quietly disappears,
07:20like reminding you to do it better next time. The shame. But yeah, all this stuff, pretty minor.
07:26I think the biggest, literally the biggest change most people will notice with this new watch is
07:30the colors, which by the way, I'm going to be switching back to my black series five because
07:35it does look cool sometimes, but I don't need a red watch every single day. But also the other
07:40new thing they made alongside the new watch is the new solo loop bands. And they are a great idea.
07:46I love the simplicity of just stretching a band to put it on, no Velcro or magnets or buckles or
07:51anything. You just put it on, get your size right, which can be a little finicky, but get it snug
07:57and it's super clean. The only weird thing is they seem to fit the watch a little bit worse than
08:02all the other bands. Like see how it doesn't go quite all the way to the edge of the watch.
08:07And you can kind of see some of the metal inside instead of it sitting flush with the red
08:12of this watch. Kind of weird if you find that important. I personally don't, but it's worth
08:17noting. So you can see it here, but you know, these are 50 to a hundred dollar watch bands,
08:21order them if you dare. So there you have it. Pretty short list. Again, the thing to keep in
08:25mind is they're not making this for people with an Apple watch series five or even series four.
08:31I think people with a series three or older will just have this as the new version to upgrade to
08:37around the holiday season conveniently. But the truth is most people don't even need this
08:41newest version with all the bells and whistles and extra sensors. There's also the new Apple
08:45watch SE, which has the new S6 chip, but Hey, there's no electrocardiogram and there's no
08:50blood oxygen sensor and there's no always on display, but it is a much lower price.
08:55And that's fine for most people getting their first Apple watch. So if it ain't broke,
09:00don't fix it. And Apple absolutely did not fix anything that wasn't broken. They didn't change
09:06the shape or offer a circular version or anything like that. They didn't add Qi charging. They didn't
09:12open up a watch face store for third-party watch faces. They didn't change anything drastic
09:17that wasn't broken with the Apple watch. So it's series six for 2020, conveniently available for
09:23the holidays, well-played Apple. And that's pretty much it for the review. Like I said,
09:29I'm going back to series five. Either way, that's been it. Thanks for watching.
09:33And Techtober rolls on. Catch you guys very soon in the next one. Peace.