Everything you love.
Like never before.
Comprehensive app redesigns for more information at a glance. Advanced metrics, views, and experiences for cyclists. And insights for mental and vision health. It’s the biggest update since the introduction of AppleWatch.
Experience
More useful, more powerful
Apps that leave no corner untouched.
The apps you love, with a whole newlook
Virtually every app has been rethought. Now apps use the entire display to create places for content, so you can see and do more, faster thanever.
SmartStack keeps you in theknow
Get the information you need, right when you need it, from any watch face. Simply turn the DigitalCrown to reveal widgets in the SmartStack.
A faster way to access ControlCenter
Activate ControlCenter from any app, simply by pressing the side button.
Watch Faces
Happiness is Snoopy on yourwrist
See Snoopy and Woodstock react to the weather and even get active withyou.
Palette watch face
View time as a range of beautiful colors that shift throughout the day, using three distinct overlappinglayers.
Cycling
See your metrics with compatible Bluetoothaccessories
Automatically connect to Bluetooth-enabled accessories to add cadence, speed, and power to your WorkoutView.
Power Zones WorkoutView
When a power meter is detected, AppleWatch will automatically estimate your Functional Threshold Power — the highest level of intensity you can maintain for an hour. This information enables Power Zones, to show which zone you’re in and track how long you spend in each zone to improve yourperformance.
Your cycling metrics, optimized foriPhone
Start a cycling workout from your watch and it will automatically show up as a LiveActivity on your iPhone. Tap it, and it will take over the entire display, making it easier to see your metrics while on aride.
Hiking
Additional views in the Compassapp
See a three-dimensional view of where you’ve been using Elevation View. Get estimates of where you last had reception with Cellular Connectivity Waypoints. And stay connected with a waypoint that lets you know where you can make an emergencycall.
Trailinformation
Search for and discover important details of nearby trails in the U.S., including name, length, elevation information, photos, andmore.
Topographicmaps
Explore mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers in the U.S., including trails, contour lines, elevation, and points ofinterest.
Elevation alerts
Get notified when you’ve passed a particular elevation threshold.
Mental Health
Emotional awareness
Reflect on your state of mind to build resilience and improve your wellbeing.
Log your state ofmind
Scroll through engaging visuals to help you select how you’re feeling to log your momentary emotion and daily mood. Stay consistent with notifications and complications on your watchface.
Insights into your mentalhealth
In the Health app on iPhone or iPad, see how your state of mind may correlate with lifestyle factors like time spent in daylight, sleep, exercise, and mindfulminutes.
Built forprivacy
Your mental health data stays on your device and is encrypted when your AppleWatch is locked with a passcode. And it’s never shared without yourpermission.
Vision Health
Reducing the
risk of nearsightedness
A helpful tool to shed light onmyopia.
See time spent indaylight
Myopia, or nearsightedness, typically starts in childhood. But one way you can help reduce the risk is by encouraging your child to spend more time outdoors. The ambient light sensor in AppleWatch can measure time in daylight.1 With Family Setup, you can keep track of it even if your child doesn’t have aniPhone.
AppleFitness+
Stay consistent with CustomPlans
Select your personal workout preferences, including the days, workout durations and types, trainers, and music, and Fitness+ will create a CustomPlan to keep you ontrack.
Stacks
Stack multiple workouts and meditations to quickly and seamlessly move to your nextactivity.
And so
muchmore.
Workout APIs.
More powerful motion sensors in AppleWatchUltramodels, SE2, and Series8 and later can detect rapid changes in direction and acceleration. These enable developers to create new experiences for sports like golf and tennis. And popular training platforms like TrainingPeaks can allow you to import your scheduled workouts directly into the Workoutapp.
Enterprise.
AppleWatch offers enterprise customers features to enhance productivity, including hands-free communication and the opportunity to respond to notifications on the go. watchOS10 introduces the ability to implement mobile device management (MDM), configure VPNs, and deploy internal-use apps, so AppleWatch can further help improve employee wellness, productivity, and safetymonitoring.
Offline maps.
In iOS17, you can download maps on your iPhone and use them while offline. You can use downloaded maps on your AppleWatch to navigate and view detailed place cards when your iPhone is turned on and in range of your AppleWatch.
NameDrop.
Easily share your contact information with a new friend. Just tap the MyCard complication and bring your AppleWatch face to face with their AppleWatch.2
Video message playback and audio calls.
Ifsomeone leaves you a recorded video message on FaceTime, you can view it directly on your AppleWatch. Group FaceTimeaudio calls are alsosupported.
Follow-up medication reminders.
To help you stay on track, you can choose to receive a follow-up reminder if you haven’t logged a scheduled medication, vitamin, or supplement. And you can set these reminders as criticalalerts.3
watchOS 10
compatibility.
watchOS10 requires iPhoneXS or later with iOS17 and one of the following AppleWatchmodels:
- AppleWatch Series 4
- AppleWatch Series 5
- AppleWatch SE
- AppleWatch Series 6
- AppleWatch Series 7
- AppleWatch Series 8
- AppleWatch Series 9
- AppleWatch Ultra
- AppleWatch Ultra 2
Not all features are available on alldevices.
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