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Finely tuned. To you.
Better understand your daily health status using your overnight vitals.1
See how workouts may impact your body over time. And discover new features that make Apple Watch undeniably yours. That’s watchOS 11.
See how workouts may impact your body over time. And discover new features that make Apple Watch undeniably yours. That’s watchOS 11.
Coming this fall
Activity Rings
Pause your rings
Move, Exercise, and Stand rings show your daily activity, and the goal is to close them every day. But if you need to take a break, you can now put your rings on pause for a day, week, month, or more and keep your award streak going.
More customizable than ever
Now you can adjust your Activity ring goals for every day of the week. So you get the motivation you need on the days you need it.
New ways to serve up your Summary
Add, move, or remove metrics in the Summary tab of the Fitness app on iPhone — to include what matters to you most. And check out new metrics for running, cycling, swimming, and more.
Vitals
For a better understanding of your daily health status
Your overnight health data in one convenient place.
For a better understanding of your daily health status
Wear your watch to sleep each night and get a more holistic understanding of your daily health status. With the new Vitals app, you can quickly see your overnight health metrics right on your watch: heart rate, respiratory rate, wrist temperature, blood oxygen,2 and sleep duration.
See what’s typical for you
Vitals establishes a typical range for each of your health metrics collected as you sleep. So you’ll always know at a glance how your metrics are stacking up.
Know when to pay more attention to your body
If multiple metrics are ever outside your typical range, you’ll receive a notification along with context for factors that may be involved — like medications, elevation, alcohol, or even illness. All to help you know when it’s a good idea to pay closer attention to your body.
Training Load
A new tool to help athletes achieve their goals
Training load helps you see how the intensity of your workouts may impact your body over time. So you can make informed decisions about how and when to adjust your workouts — especially when you’re training for a big event. You can also see your overnight vitals for additional insights. Review your training load in the Activity app.
Track your effort
After completing most cardio-focused workouts in the Workout app, you’ll be able to review a new effort metric in the summary indicating how hard you exercised. Your pace, elevation, heart rate, and personal data like age, height, and weight are factored into each rating.
Track your effort
Effort ratings are automatically generated for:
Indoor Walk Outdoor Walk Indoor Run Outdoor Run Indoor Cycle Outdoor Cycle Indoor Rowing Outdoor Rowing Cross Country
Skiing Elliptical Stair Stepper Hiking HIIT Dance Kickboxing Pool Swim Open Water
Swim
You can adjust the estimated ratings, and for noncardio workouts like strength training and yoga, you can enter your own rating after your workout. You can also submit ratings for workouts tracked in third‑party fitness apps so they’ll be added to your training load.
Indoor Walk Outdoor Walk Indoor Run Outdoor Run Indoor Cycle Outdoor Cycle Indoor Rowing Outdoor Rowing Cross Country
Skiing Elliptical Stair Stepper Hiking HIIT Dance Kickboxing Pool Swim Open Water
Swim
You can adjust the estimated ratings, and for noncardio workouts like strength training and yoga, you can enter your own rating after your workout. You can also submit ratings for workouts tracked in third‑party fitness apps so they’ll be added to your training load.
Know if you’re undertraining or overdoing it
Training load compares the intensity and duration of your workouts over the last seven days to what you’ve done over the previous 28 days. It then classifies your current training load on a scale from well below to well above — to help you understand the relative strain on your body and decide if it’s sustainable.
Photos Face
Picture-perfect images, curated for you
Powered by machine learning, the redesigned Photos face can search thousands of photos in your library, intelligently analyze them, and select the best compositions, framing, and image quality for your watch. To give the people, places, or things you love the star treatment.
Filter your favorites
Select specific people, pets, nature, or cities, and watchOS 11 will find the best shots and serve them up.
More ways to make it yours
Now you can customize the time size and layout, choose your favorite font, and get creative with bold colors, tricolor, or something unique to you. There’s script support for additional languages, too.
Cycle Tracking
A new focus on pregnancy
When you add a pregnancy in the Health app on iPhone or iPad, Cycle Tracking will now display your gestational age and track your pregnancy across all your health charts.3
A new focus on pregnancy
Cycle Tracking can give you a variety of recommendations and notifications related to your health during pregnancy. For example, if your high heart rate notification threshold is set below 120 bpm, you will be prompted to review it, since heart rates often increase during pregnancy. Walking Steadiness can alert you more quickly during your third trimester, when the risk of falling can increase. And you can be reminded to check in on your mental health more often, since during and after pregnancy a person is at higher risk for conditions like depression.
Designed for your privacy
Your health data stays on your device and is encrypted when your Apple Watch is locked with a passcode. And it’s never shared without your permission.
Smart Stack
More intelligent than ever
Widgets show up automatically based on time, location, and more. Like if rain is coming.
Always know the latest
Live Activities are now supported on Apple Watch and appear in the Smart Stack. So you can stay on top of the latest sports scores or know when your Uber is about to arrive.
More capable, too
Brand-new widgets include severe weather alerts, Training Load, Photos, Distance, and Shazam. And you can directly access three items you used most recently in an app — like your three most recent Workout types or songs you’ve played.
Check In
Peace of mind on your wrist
Check In lets you automatically notify a friend or loved one when you’ve arrived at a destination.4 Start a Check In from Messages by entering your destination or arrival time.
Check In from your workout
Going for a run after dark? Now you can start your workout and a Check In at the same time from the Workout app on your watch.
Workout
Enhanced GPS positioning
See distance and route maps for more workouts. Including row, row, rowing your boat.
Custom Workouts for pool swims
Your Apple Watch can now automatically guide you through timed intervals of work and recovery in the pool — with haptics to let you know when it’s time to move to the next interval.
See what’s coming
Now you can see an Up Next workout view for any Custom Workout you create, allowing you to see what’s remaining in your current interval and what’s coming next.
Translate
The world on your wrist
With support for 20 languages, see a translation simply by typing or dictating a phrase. You can play the translation out loud and slow it down if need be. And you can use the Translate app on your watch without your iPhone simply by downloading a language.
Now in the Smart Stack
Add the Translate app to your Smart Stack for easy access.5 Or when you’re traveling to a location where a different language is spoken, your watch will intelligently add the widget for you. Talk about smart.
Double Tap
Still magical, even more capable
Scroll through any app hands-free with the double tap gesture. Including the Weather app.
The double tap API is available for third‑party apps
Now developers can tap into double tap.
And so
much more.
Ultra Wideband home keys.
Now you can unlock your door as you approach, without having to hold your watch to the lock.6
Enhanced ticketing.
See more information on tickets in your Wallet, like directions to the parking lot, show times, and more. Events will also appear as Live Activities in your Smart Stack.
Tap to Cash.
Exchange Apple Cash with someone by presenting your Apple Watch to their iPhone or Apple Watch.7
Maps.
Maps offers hikes for all 63 U.S. national parks. Save them to your watch to use offline and get turn‑by‑turn voice guidance.
watchOS 11
compatibility.
watchOS 11 requires iPhone Xs or later with iOS 18 and one of the following Apple Watch models:
- Apple Watch SE (2nd generation)
- Apple Watch Series 6
- Apple Watch Series 7
- Apple Watch Series 8
- Apple Watch Series 9
- Apple Watch Ultra
- Apple Watch Ultra 2
Not all features are available on all devices.
Join the Apple Beta
Software Program.
Developers will love watchOS, too.
