A new software design makes using Apple Watch even more
delightful, Workout Buddy brings a first-of-its-kind workout
experience with Apple Intelligence, and the Smart Stack and
Messages are more intelligent
Apple® today previewed watchOS® 26, offering a beautiful new
look and even more intelligence for a more personalized experience,
to support users in staying active, healthy, and connected. A new
design with Liquid Glass makes features like the Smart Stack,
Control Center, the Photos watch face, and in-app navigation and
controls more expressive, while maintaining the instant familiarity
of watchOS. Apple Intelligence™ enhances the fitness experience
with Workout Buddy, which provides personalized, spoken motivation.
The Workout app features a new layout, and offers music to listen
to based on a user’s tastes and the workout type. watchOS 26 makes
everyday interactions even more convenient with Smart Stack hints
and updates to Messages, and introduces a new one-handed wrist
flick gesture to easily dismiss notifications.
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watchOS 26 offers a beautiful new look
and even more intelligence for a more personalized experience.
“Apple Watch is an indispensable companion for millions of
people around the world, and watchOS 26 uses intelligence to offer
an even more personalized experience,” said David Clark, Apple’s
senior director of watchOS Engineering. “From a gorgeous new
design, to Workout Buddy with Apple Intelligence, personalized
music suggestions in the Workout app, and more intelligence in the
Smart Stack and Messages, we’re excited about the many ways watchOS
26 will support each user in staying active, healthy, connected,
and safe throughout their day.”
A Beautiful New Design
A gorgeous new software design with Liquid Glass brings a fresh
look to watchOS 26. Across apps, this new design enables a vibrant
and expressive experience that reflects and refracts content using
real-time rendering, which brings even more focus to content and
makes using Apple Watch® even more delightful. Smart Stack widgets,
Smart Stack hints, notifications, Control Center, and in-app
controls and navigation will adopt the new design. The popular
Photos watch face is enhanced with numerals made of Liquid Glass,
allowing users to see even more of their photo.
Apple Intelligence Comes to Fitness with Workout
Buddy
Workout Buddy is a first-of-its-kind fitness experience with
Apple Intelligence that incorporates a user’s workout data and
their fitness history to generate personalized, motivational
insights during their session, based on data like heart rate, pace,
distance, Activity rings, personal fitness milestones, and
more.
For example, as a user starts a run, Workout Buddy will give a
personalized pep talk that may remind them of their running mileage
for the week so far, or share how they are doing against their
Activity ring goals: “Way to get out for your run this Wednesday
morning. You’re 18 minutes away from closing your Exercise ring. So
far this week, you’ve run 6 miles. You’re going to add to that
today.”
During the workout, Workout Buddy can mark key moments like
their mile splits, or tell them if they hit a new milestone based
on their fitness history: “Mile four. You picked up the pace and
ran that last one in 8 minutes and 28 seconds.” “Hey, check this
out. Your total running distance for the year just crossed the
200-mile mark! That’s a lot of running!”
When a user ends a workout, Workout Buddy will recap their
workout stats and congratulate them on their achievements: “Way to
get your workout in! You went 4.3 miles in just over 38 minutes.
Your average pace was 8 minutes and 58 seconds, and your average
heart rate was 128. That was your longest run of the last 28 days.
What will you do next?”
To offer meaningful inspiration in real time, Workout Buddy
analyzes data privately and securely, with Apple Intelligence. A
new text-to-speech model then translates insights into a dynamic
generative voice built using voice data from Fitness+ trainers, so
it has the right energy, style, and tone for a workout.
Workout Buddy will be available on Apple Watch with Bluetooth
headphones, and requires an Apple Intelligence-supported iPhone®
nearby. It will be available starting in English, across some of
the most popular workout types: Outdoor and Indoor Run, Outdoor and
Indoor Walk, Outdoor Cycle, HIIT, and Functional and Traditional
Strength Training.
Additional Updates to the Workout Experience
The Workout app is one of the most popular apps on Apple Watch,
and in watchOS 26, it debuts the biggest update to its layout and
navigation since its introduction. Four new buttons in the corners
of the app make it easier for users to access their favorite
features to customize workouts, like Workout Views, Custom Workout,
Pacer, Race Route, and more.
To add inspiration, users can set up music and podcasts right in
the Workout app to automatically play when they start a workout.
For users’ convenience, Apple Music® can now select the best
playlist for a user’s workout based on the workout type and their
personal tastes.1 Alternatively, users can see suggestions for
playlists or podcasts based on what they’ve recently listened to
during that particular workout type.
The Smart Stack Becomes Even More Proactive
The Smart Stack is designed to help users quickly access
important information from any watch face. In watchOS 26, the Smart
Stack improves its prediction algorithms by incorporating more
contextual data, sensor data, and data from a user’s routine to
provide Smart Stack hints, a proactive prompt for actionable
suggestions that are immediately useful. Made of Liquid Glass,
Smart Stack hints will appear on the display as a gentle visual
prompt. For example, a hint for Backtrack may appear when a user is
in a remote location with no connectivity, or a hint for a Pilates
workout may show up when a user arrives at a studio location at
their usual time.
Added Convenience in Messages
Apple Watch now supports Live Translation in Messages with Apple
Intelligence, allowing incoming texts to be automatically
translated into a user’s preferred language, right on their wrist.2
And when the user responds, their texts can be instantly translated
for the person they’re having a conversation with. Live Translation
will be available on Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Series 10,
and Apple Watch Ultra® 2, with an Apple Intelligence-supported
iPhone.
Additionally, for users whose device language is set to English,
Apple Watch will intelligently suggest relevant actions in Messages
using the context of a conversation, like starting a Check In when
a friend asks a user to share when they arrive home, or using Apple
Cash® when a user is asked to contribute to a group gift.
Customizable Backgrounds set on iPhone will also appear on Apple
Watch to make conversations feel more personal and distinct, and
users can respond to polls right on their wrist. Smart Replies get
even more precise for users whose device language is set to
English, with an improved on-device language model that can
generate relevant responses based on the content of a
conversation.3
Notifications Are Easier to Manage
Notifications are even easier to manage with a simple wrist
flick gesture on Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Series 10, and
Apple Watch Ultra 2. When a user raises their wrist to check a
notification but isn’t ready to respond, they can quickly turn
their wrist over and back to dismiss the notification. The wrist
flick gesture can be used to dismiss notifications and incoming
calls, silence timers and alarms, and return to the watch face. It
uses the accelerometer and the gyroscope — along with a machine
learning model — to analyze a user’s wrist movement. Wrist flick
joins the double tap gesture to allow users to do even more on
Apple Watch with only one hand, for times when the user’s other
hand is occupied, such as when walking the dog, cooking, or holding
a cup of coffee.
Apple Watch can also now automatically adjust the speaker volume
based on the ambient noise in a user’s surroundings for
notifications, timers, alarms, incoming calls, and Siri®, allowing
them to stay connected without worrying about disturbing those
around them.
Additional updates in watchOS 26:
- The Notes app comes to Apple Watch, allowing users to
access their notes right on their wrist. Users can also pin and
unlock notes, complete checklist items, and create new notes with
Siri, dictation, and the keyboard.
- Hold Assist and Call Screening come to the Phone
app, when an iPhone is nearby. When a user is waiting for a live
agent, Hold Assist recognizes once a live agent is available and
notifies the user to return to the call.4 Call Screening helps
users manage incoming phone calls from unknown numbers more
efficiently by collecting a name and reason for the call before
their phone rings, so they can make an informed decision on whether
to pick up, decline the call, or ask for more information.5
- For users who are deaf or hard of hearing, Live Listen®
controls come to Apple Watch with a new set of features, including
real-time Live Captions of what their iPhone hears on a paired
Apple Watch while listening to the audio.6 Apple Watch serves as a
remote control to start or stop Live Listen sessions on a paired
iPhone, or jump back into a session to capture something that may
have been missed.
- The Photos face will now shuffle images based on
Featured content from Photos, so users can see images of their most
meaningful moments every time they raise their wrist or tap the
display.
- Users can now explore and discover watch faces more easily with
the redesigned watch face gallery on Apple Watch and in the
Watch app on iPhone, with faces grouped into collections.
New Tools for Developers
Developers are able to take advantage of new APIs in watchOS 26
across design, the Smart Stack, and more. Developers can use new
SwiftUI® APIs to adopt the beautiful new design materials of
watchOS 26. With the Control Widget API, developers can create
custom controls to be added to the Control Center, Action Button,
or Smart Stack widget, and the Smart Stack Relevance API allows
third-party widgets to be added to the Smart Stack with new signals
like Points of Interest, with user permission to incorporate
location data. For example, the Smart Stack can intelligently show
a widget for Slopes when users arrive at a ski resort with improved
location APIs, and now Dark Noise can add a custom control to
Control Center so users can easily turn on a sleep soundscape
without picking up their iPhone.
Availability
All of these features are available for testing starting today
through the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com, and a
public beta will be available through the Apple Beta Software
Program next month at beta.apple.com. watchOS 26 will be available
this fall as a free software update for Apple Watch Series 6 or
later, Apple Watch SE® (2nd generation), and all Apple Watch Ultra
models, paired with iPhone 11 or later, running iOS 26. The Apple
Intelligence features detailed require supported devices, which
include all iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max
that have Apple Intelligence enabled and Siri and device language
set to the same supported language. Features are subject to change.
Some features may not be available in all languages or regions, and
availability may vary due to local laws and regulations. For more
information about availability, visit apple.com.
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Footnotes
1. Apple Music subscription is required for automatic music
selection. 2. Live Translation in Messages will be available on
Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra
2 when paired with an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone. Live
Translation in Messages supports English (U.S., UK), French
(France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil),
Spanish (Spain), and Chinese (simplified). 3. Updates to Smart
Replies will be available on Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch
Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2. 4. Hold Assist requires iPhone
nearby, and supports English (U.S., Australia, Canada, India,
Singapore, UK), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese,
Mandarin Chinese (China mainland), Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish
(U.S., Mexico, Spain). 5. Call Screening requires iPhone nearby,
and supports Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong, Macao), English
(U.S., Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Puerto Rico,
Singapore, South Africa, UK), French (Canada, France), German
(Germany), Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese (China mainland,
Macao, Taiwan), Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (U.S., Mexico,
Puerto Rico, Spain). 6. Live Captions support English (U.S.,
Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK), German (Germany), French
(Canada, France), Spanish (U.S., Mexico, Spain), Japanese, Korean,
Mandarin Chinese (China mainland), and Cantonese (China mainland,
Hong Kong).
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