The iOS 14.3 and watchOS 7.2 are here. And with every new update comes new capabilities. This time the software update adds support for Apple Fitness+, AirPods Max, Apple ProRAW (for iPhone 12 Pro users, and Cardio Fitness.

“Cardio fitness is increasingly recognized as a powerful predictor of overall health, and with today’s update to watchOS 7, we are making it even more accessible to more people,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer. “Using its advanced sensors, Apple Watch now brings estimation of low cardio fitness levels from clinics directly to a user’s wrist, so people have more insight into how they can improve their long-term health through daily activity.”

To make the Cardio Fitness data more useful for you, Apple presents them as classifications ranging from high, above average, below average, or low. This easy-to-read information derived by comparing your cardio fitness level to others in the same age group and of the same sex, According to the data from the Fitness Registry and Importance of Exercise National Database.

You can then review your cardio fitness level for the past week, month, or year. If you hit low range, the Apple Watch will notify you and give you some advice on how to improve that.

So how much of this is relevant to us in Malaysia?

We still don’t have Apple Pay, ECG, and Apple Fitness+. Yet.

The database that the Cardio Fitness uses to compare our fitness level is based on an American database. It doesn’t seem to take race and size as a factor in its evaluation, so perhaps there is room for improvement there.

That said, anything to help us be healthier is appreciated.

As for the other features, I would love to try out Apple ProRAW and see how it changes the mobile photography landscape. Before today, I use it as a litmus test when anyone asks which iPhone they should get. Because if you don’t know what Apple ProRaw is or derive it’s meaning from its name, then I’d say just get the 12, or 12 mini.

And I will have to visit the nearest Apple retailer (we don’t have apple stores here) and see if they have an AirPods Max I could try out.

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