Our most powerful chip in Apple Watch ever. A magical way to use your Apple Watch without touching the screen. A display that’s twice as bright. And now you can choose a watch case and band combination that’s carbon neutral.
Custom Apple silicon makes Apple Watch Series 9 more capable, more intuitive, and faster. The dual-core CPU has 5.6 billion transistors — 60 percent more than the S8 chip. A four-core Neural Engine processes machine learning tasks up to two times faster. It enables a number of innovations, including the double tap gesture.
Gestures
Magic. At your
fingertips.
DoubleTap
Gestures make Apple Watch even easier to use anytime, especially when your hands are full. Just double tap your index finger and thumb together to answer a call, open a notification, play and pause music, and more.
Play and pause music while carrying groceries.
Answer a call while paddleboarding.
Stop a timer while baking a pie.
Reply to a message while walking the dog.
Check your Smart Stack while holding your toddler.
2x brighter display
A brilliant breakthrough.
The advanced display system in Series 9 boosts the maximum brightness up to 2000 nits — double Series 8 — so it’s easier to read in full sun. It’s also better in low‑light situations, like a movie theater, because it dims to just 1 nit.
Siri-ously capable.
With Series 9, Siri requests processed on your device are faster and more secure. Plus, Siri dictation is up to 25 percent more accurate. You can ask Siri about your health data, including things like how much you slept last night. Or use it to log information such as your weight or period.
Hey Siri, how long did I sleep last night?
HomePod control. Watch takes the stage.
A second-generation Ultra Wideband chip enables integration with HomePod.1 When music is playing, Apple Watch Series 9 opens the Now Playing screen to let you control it. If nothing is playing, the Smart Stack will offer media suggestions to play on HomePod.
Your iPhone. Lost and precisely found.
Also enabled by the second-generation Ultra Wideband chip, Precision Finding can direct you to your iPhone by showing you its approximate distance and direction.2 And when you get close, haptic feedback, an audible chirp, and a visual indicator help you zero in on it.
watchOS 10
Reimagined. Remarkable.
watchOS 10 brings more to your screen than ever before. Virtually every app has been totally redesigned to give you more information at a glance. From any watch face, simply turn the Digital Crown to reveal the Smart Stack with widgets for relevant and timely information. And with insights for mental and vision health, you can keep track of your body and mind — right from your wrist.
A first for Apple Watch.
A major step toward 2030.
Apple’s first carbon neutral product is here.
Through ongoing innovations in materials, clean energy, and low-carbon shipping, Apple Watch is available in case and band combinations that are carbon neutral.
Health
Powerful insights at a glance.
Apple Watch helps you better understand your mental and physical health. Health data is kept private and secure. And when you’re ready to share with a healthcare provider, friends, or family members, you’re in control.
Watches out for your heart.
With the ECG app, Apple Watch Series 9 is capable of generating an ECG similar to a single‑lead electrocardiogram.5 And with the Heart Rate app, you can get notifications for high and low heart rate as well as an irregular rhythm.6
Dream machine.
The Sleep app doesn’t just keep track of your time asleep. It shows you how much time you spent in REM, Core, or Deep sleep, as well as when you might have woken up.
Understand your cycle like never before.
Apple Watch Series 9 has an innovative sensor that tracks your temperature while you sleep, so you can see changes over time.7 Cycle Tracking uses this data to provide a retrospective estimate of when you likely ovulated, which can be helpful for family planning.8
Log your state of mind.
In the Mindfulness app on Apple Watch, 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 watch face.
Connect
Everything at the speed of life.
Apple Watch keeps you connected to the people and things that you care about, right from your wrist. And with a cellular plan, you can do it all without your iPhone nearby.9
The freedom of cellular.
Take a call from the trail. Return a text on your run. Check a notification in the garden. No phone? No problem.
Stream music and podcasts.
Apple Music gives you millions of tracks of musical motivation.10 You can also catch up on the latest podcasts or listen to an audiobook.
Easy money.
Pay hands-free in an instant, almost anywhere with Apple Pay.11 Or simply send money to a friend with Apple Cash.12
Let your wrist lead you.
Apple Maps can provide turn-by-turn directions with haptic feedback. So you’ll know exactly where you’re going, without looking at your watch.
Fitness
Simply motivating.
Whatever workout you have in mind, it’s sure to be on your wrist and ready with just a tap. See all the metrics you need to keep motivated in customizable views. And durability that makes it easy to give it all you’ve got, without sweating how your Apple Watch will hold up.
Squat. Spin. Stride.
From strength training and HIIT to Pilates and meditation, Apple Watch delivers a healthy number of ways to work out— with the metrics you most want to see.
Tougher than tough.
The front crystal, robust geometry, and flat base make Apple Watch resistant to cracking. And it’s water resistant 50 meters.
Workout Views. Take it all in. Go all out.
The display lets you see all the metrics you need, including Heart Rate Zones and customized intervals, in a single view while you’re working out. Just turn the Digital Crown for metrics like Segments and Splits, Elevation, and Activity rings.
Live Activity.
Start a cycling workout from your watch and it will automatically show up as a Live Activity on your iPhone. Tap it, and it will take over the entire display, making it easier to see your metrics while on a ride.
Apple Fitness+. Supercharge your fitness and wellness.
Stay motivated with real-time metrics from Apple Watch. Choose from 12 workout types, from HIIT to Yoga, and meditations, too. Go on audio‑guided walks and runs with just your watch and Bluetooth headphones. And Custom Plans are automatically built just for you.13
Safety
Help. Easy as wearing your watch.
Whether you fall, get in a car crash, or need help in an emergency, Series 9 can call for help when you need it.
Crash Detection.
Apple Watch Series 9 is able to detect if you’re in a severe car crash. When a severe crash is detected, it can automatically connect you with emergency services, provide dispatchers with your location, and notify your emergency contacts.14
Fall Detection.
Apple Watch Series 9 can detect that you’ve taken a hard fall and connect you with emergency services if you’re immobile.14 And it’s optimized when you are using the Workout app.
Emergency SOS.
When you make a call with Emergency SOS, your Apple Watch calls local emergency services and shares your location. Get help by pressing and holding the side button.
Use AR to see Apple Watch Series 9.
Just open this page in Safari on your iPhone or iPad.
As our first carbon neutral product, Apple Watch marks a milestone in our plan to make all our products carbon neutral by 2030. We’re cutting the majority of emissions through innovations in materials, clean energy, and low-carbon shipping. And we’re investing in nature-based projects to offset the small amount that remains. Because the earth won’t wait. Neither will we.
