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Some watchOS 4 features missing from Series 0 Apple Watch
There are a few features available new in watchOS 4 that are not available at launch on the first generation Apple Watch, AKA: Apple Watch 0.
With watchOS 4, there are dozens of new features and design tweaks that improve the Apple Watch’s usability. Unfortunately for early adopters, some of those features have been excluded in the first-generation Apple Watch.
To be clear, the first-generation Apple Watch is not Apple Watch Series 1. It’s the first Apple Watch that Apple sold in April of 2015. Around here, we call it Series 0. If you purchased your Apple Watch new on or around September 2016, you probably don’t have a Series 0 Apple Watch.
The excluded features, as first noticed by J Travers and confirmed by an Apple Support document about watchOS 4, include the ability to automatically start a synced music playlist when starting a workout and the resting heart rate feature Apple demoed on stage a the fall Apple Event.
There is no information at this time whether those missing f…