In the WWDC21 that Apple celebrated last June, Tim Cook and his team showed us a very dynamic and spectacular new photo sphere. we were left with the fly behind the ear, when the developers tested watchOS 8 beta 1 and said sphere was nowhere to be found.
But in the new second beta that has been launched this week, you can already choose this new sphere, and it seems that it is a success. Let's see what this is about.
The photo sphere is one of the most used by users. As we do with the iPhone or iPad, we love to put one of our favorite photos as wallpaper, and the Apple Watch was not going to be less.
Well, Apple has given you a turn of the screw to this sphere, adding some cool functions to it.
With the new sphere Portraitsportraits stored on our iPhone come to life thanks to a multi-layered surround effect that intelligently recognizes faces in photos and crops them to make the subject stand out
In this new sphere, users can select up to 24 Portraits in your gallery and add them to your Apple Watch as a single background. Thus, every time you turn on the Apple Watch screen, a new random photo will appear chosen from among the 24 that you have previously selected.
There is also a very cool effect: watchOS cut out the silhouette of the portraits, and you can partially superimpose it on the numbers of the clock, producing a depth effect on the digits of the hour very spectacular.
And apart from all this, as of watchOS 8 Memories and Featured Photos sync with Apple Watch, and photos can be shared via Messages and Mail with the new Share menu.