watchOS 5

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! class="ios-lab" | Developer
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Initial release
| class="ios-val" | September 17, 2018
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! class="ios-lab" | Final release
| class="ios-val" | 5.3.2 (August 2019)
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! class="ios-lab" | Preceded by
| class="ios-val" | [[watchOS 4]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Succeeded by
| class="ios-val" | [[watchOS 6]]
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watchOS 5 is the fifth release of [[watchOS]], shipped September 17, 2018, with the redesigned Series 4. Walkie-Talkie brought push-to-talk voice over any connection; workouts learned to detect themselves (start and end reminders, automatic pace alerts, yoga and hiking types); and the Series 4's health hardware switched on across the cycle — fall detection at launch, and the ECG app with atrial-fibrillation notifications in 5.1.2 that December, the watch's leap into regulated medical territory.

= Features =

Walkie-Talkie; automatic workout detection; competitions; Podcasts on the wrist; Siri Shortcuts and raise-to-speak (no "Hey"); web content viewing; student ID cards; and the ECG app/AFib notifications (5.1.2, Series 4).

= Legacy =

The ECG clearance made the Apple Watch a medical device in the public mind — saved-my-life stories became a genre — and set the template of hardware shipping ahead of its software switch-on. Walkie-Talkie stayed a beloved niche; the health turn stayed the strategy.

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