Should you upgrade to the Apple Watch Series 6 - 2 month review By Aditya K. Dhar

So, there's plenty of videos available on YouTube regarding the Series 6 and what I find really weird is that in general, people love to compare it to the Series 5. But in my opinion, it's not just a successor to the Series 5. You have to really compare it to all the other Apple Watches to see how far we've come and just how worth it. It is for your use case and not necessarily just someone who's about to upgrade from the Series 5 Now I have had this watch for about two months, approximately now, and I absolutely love it I upgraded for my Series 2, and it was an absolute night and day difference and that's because I hadn't gotten the Series 4, which got the main upgrades, so I, just kind of got the extra features that got slapped on with the different versions that came out. Now. We have to kind of talk about the new version and new features in this particular model, of course, and the big headlining feature is the blood oxygen meter which, in my opinion, is it's okay, but there's a couple problems with it that you need to be aware, of.

First, it really does not work for the most part, simply because the wrist is a awful place to take measurements. You can see that all hospital grade- sensors always put it on your finger, and the reason for that is that there's a lot more flesh to go through, and your wrist just is not a good place to take measurements So. In fact, if you put your watch on your fingers, it's actually very, very accurate, but unfortunately they really can't do that, so they have to put it on your wrist. It's okay! It works at night. Very well, because your hand is very still if you're sleeping you are not moving around, but when you're awake, the automatic detection does not work at all.

For the most part, my data is always just chopped off at the beginning of the morning. Simply because I'm moving around too much, and it can't take a proper reading. There's, also a new always-on altimeter, which is very cool But. It has no real purpose for me because I don't really go hiking or anything like that. It's, very cool It works.

I have tried it. It's pretty accurate, actually, What I did was I tried going down to the ground and going back up to where my head is, and it pretty much got my height perfectly. So it may not be perfectly accurate. It'll give you a range of how much it's off, but when it's off it's still giving you the proper elevation difference, so hey it works. That's all I can tell you But we're getting into more interesting stuff.

Now The other two they're they're headlining features sure, but they don't really work the best or not. They don't necessarily have typical applications for people and where we see actual applications to real world cases is performance. The Apple Watch has always been pretty good in performance, not necessarily the best, but with the Series 4, we saw a huge shift where it's going more towards almost desktop grade performance. It's where your phone and your watch are basically the same in terms of speed, and this continues with the Series 6, except it's much, much faster, apps open up absolutely instantly. Everything is more efficient as well, so your battery life is improved too.

Now I'm getting 36 hours with the always on display on, but there are also some extra features for battery life, such as the 90-minute charging period, which is a huge improvement, especially for me with the series 2, where my battery life was absolutely terrible and charging it up was even worse. So, I'm very happy with battery life, and I'm especially happy with the charging time Now. One awesome thing that came out with the more efficient processor is the always-on display and having used it for the last two months, I can say that it's absolutely epic, because previous always-on displays to me always felt just too dim. I've only seen them in Apple stores, which is obviously a terrible place to check that out. It's supposed to be dim, so you know it's in a very well lit area.

It looks fairly dim This new one I've never had problems reading it, and it's just way brighter. Furthermore, it's way nicer and I think this is how the always-on display should have been from the beginning. Furthermore, it makes perfect sense and in some lighting conditions it's actually very hard to tell that even turned on minus the few animations that may appear Now to the big question: should you upgrade or should you buy it for the first time right? So now we start comparing it to previous watches, and what we have to do is we have to put these watches into three categories: So. We have the Series 2 and older, which are the unsupported watches, and then you have the Series 3 in an awkward middle ground there, and then you have the 4, 5 and 6. This is the 6 So, as you can see, I'm grouping it into the 4 4 and 5, because they are part of the same design refresh, and they have generally the same functionality, but we'll get to that in a second.

Let's start with the 2 and lower If. You have a 2 and lower. It makes perfect sense for you to upgrade now. Not only is it unsupported now the Series 2 is unsupported. Now, the previous watches.

Well, they were unsupported whenever all these watches are unsupported, so you're not going to get the latest apps you're not going to get the latest functionality, but there's also the part where Apple is moving on in terms of how they're looking into the watch. It used to be where it's just a companion device for watch, apps and I absolutely love that idea, but Apple is moving away from that they're moving into a more standalone device, and this fundamental shift is something that Apple is going to continue to go into and going into any of the newer watches. Even the 3 is going to be a huge difference because you're going to see that jump in speed and usability and overall reliability, I think with the Series 2 I just couldn't rely on the apps opening up at the right times to rely on their data. I'd rather open up my phone to view the data first, and I think that that's really important, so you should definitely upgrade, but not necessarily to the Series 6 Now. If you have a Series 3, you should also upgrade, but you're, probably just fine, because not only is Apple still selling it.

Apple is still fully supporting it. So it's going to be fine for at least a couple more years and just thinking about the device itself it's fast. It's got pretty much everything you need in a watch, just not a nicer display, but hey. If you just need to tell the time open a few apps, it works it's great But, then, when you go into the higher tiers. This is where the upgrade question becomes.

Well, it's easier to answer, and it's a solid NO If. You have a Series 4. You already have the new design refresh. Furthermore, you have the better heart rate sensor. Furthermore, you have all the newer features more or less, except for the always-on display, the better altimeter and the blood oxygen sensor.

So overall you're not really missing out on much because the blood oxygen sensor is. It almost feels like it's slapped onto the device, I hate saying that, because it's an it's still really great that they put it on there, but it doesn't feel like it works with the Apple Watch yet because the Apple Watch the whole idea of it, for me at least, is that the automatic functions are the biggest part of it. I can wear the watch, and at night I can look at my heart rate. How it's spiked during the day, I can look at all the other metrics I can see if I had a workout I can look at the detection. It's automatic now as well.

Blood action sensor is just not there. It does not get your data during the day with sleep tracking, it's okay, but at the same time it doesn't actually do anything because no apps actually take that metric and give you any information with it. I use Asleep every night. It does. It does absolutely nothing.

I also looked into apple's own health stuff, so their sleep tracking, absolutely nothing, so you're not missing out on much Now if you're on the Series 5. Of course, you already have the always on display, so you're pretty much set for the next couple of years for sure With, the Series 6. You know if you're a new customer, it makes perfect sense to buy that over any of the older watches, because simply said it's the best Apple Watch ever made That doesn't mean you should upgrade. It just means that if you're going into a new watch, this is the watch. You should target Even.

If it's too high on your price range, wait a little save up and get this one, because this is going to be. This is going to be the one that Apple supports the longest. This is also the one with the most amount of features, so when Apple does end up using these features more to give better data, you're going to have it, so there's nothing wrong with getting the better device, especially if you're getting it for the first time. So overall I think that the Series 6 is an absolutely fantastic device, but when it comes to upgrading I think the question is a lot more difficult to answer than a lot of people seem to put if it's, the latest and greatest, but it's not something worth upgrading over, depending on which watch you're. Already on and yeah.

That's pretty much the question I wanted to answer. I hope, I answered all your questions. If you have something else that you want to ask, obviously put in the comments, and I'll try to answer as good as I can As, you can see. I am back for the most part, I'm hoping to keep to a schedule again, but we'll see how that goes. I haven't made videos in so long.

My head is a mop head now as well. So as you can see, my hair also grew out. So things have been very different: we're going to see how it goes and yeah, Thanks for watching Catch you in the next one!.

Source : Aditya K. Dhar