Apple releases macOS 12 Monterey and updates for iOS 15.1, iPadOS 15.1, and watchOS 8.1. Additionally, after the announcement in September that video workouts with Apple Watch will begin this year in Germany, the company now also names a specific start date for Fitness + for Germany, along with One Premium.
Video-Workouts ab 3. November
Starting on November 3 this year, Apple’s fitness service will not only be launched in Germany, but in a total of 15 new regions: Brazil, Germany, France, Indonesia, Italy, Colombia, Malaysia, Mexico, Austria, Portugal, Russia and Saudi Arabia, Arabia, Switzerland, Spain and the United Arab Emirates. It was already available in the US, Australia, the UK, and Canada. It is already known that the service will not have any localization for language and trainers, but will remain entirely in English. However, optionally, the subtitles can be displayed in six different languages.
Fitness + is available as a subscription for € 9.99 per month or € 79.99 per year.
Apple One Premium starts in Germany
At the same time, Apple One Premium is also launched in Germany, which in addition to Fitness + also offers access to Apple Music, Apple TV +, Apple Arcade, Apple News + (currently not available in Germany) and iCloud + with 2 TB of storage. for 28.95 euros per month. The subscription can be shared by six family members.
macOS 12 Monterey launches today
As announced on the homepage after Apple’s event last week, Apple also released macOS 12 Monterey today.
macOS 12 Monterey is being released by Apple as a free update. The oldest supported Macs are the 2013 Mac Pro.
- iMac (Late 2015 and later)
- Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
- iMac Pro (2017 and later)
- Mac mini (Late 2014 and later)
- MacBook Air (Early 2015 and later)
- MacBook (early 2016 and later)
- MacBook Pro (Early 2015 and later)
SharePlay and Universal Control are still missing from the new operating system at first; They will be delivered later this year.
SharePlay on iOS 15.1, iPadOS 15.1, watchOS 8.1, and tvOS 15.1
Apple also released iOS 15.1, iPadOS 15.1, watchOS 8.1, and tvOS 15.1 today, all of which support SharePlay as the top innovation, allowing content from Apple Music, Fitness +, and the Apple TV app to be synced via Facetime. iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max now also offer ProRes recordings.
HomePod: Lossless Audio and Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio
With the update to version 15.1, HomePod and HomePod Mini also receive Apple’s Lossless Audio and Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio, the latter only for the large HomePod, which has now been discontinued. Both functions can be activated in the launcher application in the settings.
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