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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 a flick of the 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 that have the right energy, style and tone for a workout.1
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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 selected 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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Let the Phone app wait on hold for you.
Hold Assist keeps your spot in line while you wait for a live agent and notifies you when they’re ready.7
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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 for 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 directly 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.8
watchOS 26 features And 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 for you. For example, select a home accessory you’d like quick access to in the Home widget.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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Apple Watch SE 2
- Apple Watch SE 3
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Apple Watch Series 6
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Apple Watch Series 7
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Apple Watch Series 8
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Apple Watch Series 9
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Apple Watch Series 10
- Apple Watch Series 11
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Apple Watch Ultra
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Apple Watch Ultra 2
- Apple Watch Ultra 3
