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Introducing sleep score, an easy way to track and help improve the quality of your sleep.
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Workout?Buddy delivers personalised, audible motivation using your fitness history.1
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A new design with Liquid?Glass brings a fresh yet familiar look to watchOS.
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The Smart?Stack now offers hints based on what’s immediately useful to?you.
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With the flick of a wrist, you can dismiss notifications, silence calls and more.2
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Suggested smart actions will appear in Messages based on the context of a text.3
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Sleek Smart?Stack.
Liquid?Glass brings a fresh new look and feel to your Smart?Stack and beyond.
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Refreshed Control Centre.
Enjoy a simplified experience with Liquid?Glass icons in Control?Centre, which provides a quick way to turn on Do?Not?Disturb, silence Apple?Watch and more.
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Updated controls in apps.
The translucent quality of the Liquid?Glass controls within apps allows you to focus more on your content.
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A picture-perfect watch face.
The time looks gorgeous in Liquid?Glass and lets you see even more of your photos.
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Go the extra mile with Workout?Buddy.
A brand-new text-to-speech model generates personalised pep talks using voice data from an Apple?Fitness+ trainer, so it has the right energy, style and tone for a workout.1 Time to buddy up.
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Celebrate new milestones.
Workout?Buddy lets you know?when you’ve hit a new milestone — like crossing 500?kilometres and?more.
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Workout app refresh.
The new layout highlights four new corner buttons, making it even quicker to access your go-to features, like Pacer, Race?Route, Custom?Workout and Workout?Buddy.
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Sounds to keep you moving.
Let Apple?Music choose the best playlist based on the workout you’re doing and the music you love. Or simply select a playlist or podcast that’s suggested for?you.5
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Live Translation.
With Apple?Intelligence, Messages automatically translates texts into your preferred language.6
Available in select languages
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Backgrounds in Messages.
When you add personalised backgrounds to your chats on iPhone, you’ll see them on Apple?Watch?too.
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Smart actions.
When a friend requests certain information in a text, Messages can quickly suggest an action in response. For example, if they want to know where you are, Find?My appears, so you can share your location with just a tap.3
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Manage unwanted calls.
Call Screening automatically answers unknown callers without interrupting you. Once the caller shares their name and the reason for their call, your phone rings and you can decide if you want to pick?up.7
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Let the Phone app wait on hold for?you.
Hold Assist keeps your place in the queue while you wait for a live agent and notifies you when they’re ready.8
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Smart?Stack hints.
With improved prediction algorithms that fuse on-device data and trends from your daily routine, the Smart?Stack now delivers a gentle prompt when it has a suggestion that’s immediately useful to?you.
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Wrist flick.
Mute incoming calls, silence timers, dismiss notifications and more — just by rotating your wrist away from you. It’s a game changer when your hands are full.2
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Notes comes to Apple?Watch.
Create new notes or view existing ones right on your wrist in the Notes app. You can even tell Siri to start a new note when you’re on the?go.
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Automatic volume adjustment.
The volume of your incoming calls, notifications and Siri now adjusts based on the ambient noise around you. For example, it’s quieter when you’re in a meeting or at the library.9
watchOS?26 featuresAnd so much more.
Featured photos shuffle.
The Photos face will now shuffle images based on featured content, so you can see your most meaningful moments every time you raise your wrist or tap the display.
Watch face gallery.
Discover new faces like Flow, which refracts a fluid orb of colour with Liquid?Glass numerals, Exactograph for precise timekeeping, and Waypoint on Apple?Watch?Ultra that dynamically shows points of interest in relation to?you.
Configurable widgets.
Customise how widgets appear in the Smart?Stack so you can see what’s most important to you. For example, select a home accessory you’d like quick access to in the Home widget.
Live Captions for Live Listen.
When you use Live Listen on iPhone, a transcription of what iPhone records is sent to your Apple?Watch so you can read what’s being said at the same time.watchOS?26 is compatible with these devices.
watchOS?26 requires iPhone?11 or later or iPhone?SE (2nd generation or later) with iOS?26 and one of the following Apple?Watch models:
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