26 New Features to Try in watchOS 26

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Apple released watchOS 26 yesterday, and if you person a Series 9 oregon aboriginal oregon an Ultra 2 oregon later, determination are a astonishing fig of utile caller features. Apple could person constricted caller additions similar Sleep Score and Hypertension notifications to the newest Apple Watch models, but present you don't request to bargain a caller ticker to get adjuvant features.

Design

Liquid Glass - ‌watchOS 26‌ adopts Liquid Glass, with translucent, glass-like buttons and interface elements. It's astir disposable with prime ticker faces, the Smart Stack, and Control Center.

Control Center - Control Center is customizable, and you tin rearrange it and adhd third-party app controls. If you don't similar your changes, you tin revert to the archetypal design.

Smart Stack - The Smart Stack uses a caller prediction algorithm and it volition punctual you if determination is simply a proposition that's instantly useful.

Widgets - Widgets successful the Smart Stack are customizable, truthful you tin rearrange them to amusement what's astir important to you first. Third-party apps are supported.

Gestures

Wrist Flick - There's a wrist flick motion for things similar silencing incoming calls and dismissing notifications one-handed.

Health

Hypertension Notifications - ‌watchOS 26‌ adds hypertension notifications based connected bosom rate, letting you cognize if precocious humor unit is detected implicit time. It's disposable connected the Series 9 and aboriginal and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later.

Sleep Score - Sleep Score gives you a number-based valuation of your slumber quality. It takes into relationship slumber duration, the fig of times you woke up successful the night, and erstwhile you went to bed.

Fitness

Workout Buddy - There's an AI-powered Workout Buddy that motivates you during workouts and provides adjuvant insights.

Workout app - Apple redesigned the Workout app with an updated layout that makes options similar customized workout, Workout Buddy, and Pacer easier to get to.

Media - There's an Autoplay Media enactment that volition automatically play euphony that matches your workout. You tin besides prime your ain media to person autoplay erstwhile a workout is started.

Messages

Smart Actions - The Messages app tin suggest astute actions similar determination sharing, providing an address, and much based connected the discourse of a text.

Smart Replies - Smart replies person been improved truthful you should get much applicable one-tap responses for incoming messages.

Live Translation - The Messages app supports Live Translation, truthful incoming texts successful different connection tin beryllium translated to your language.

Backgrounds - Personalized backgrounds that you make for conversations connected iPhone sync to the watch.

Phone

Call Screening - Call Screening asks callers for much accusation earlier your telephone oregon Apple Watch rings.

Hold Assist - You tin usage the Hold Assist diagnostic connected the Apple Watch. It waits connected the enactment for you truthful you tin bash different things.

Watch Faces

Photos - The Photos ticker look uses Liquid Glass for the time, and the size and determination of the clip set based connected the representation that's being displayed. The shuffle enactment besides uses Featured contented from ‌Photos‌.

Flow - Flow is simply a ticker look designed for Liquid Glass. It features an orb of colour with Liquid Glass numbers.

Exactograph - Exactograph has hour, minute, and 2nd dials for precise clip keeping. If you pat connected the face, it zooms successful connected the minutes and seconds dials truthful you tin measurement successful adjacent smaller increments of time.

Waypoint - Waypoint is lone for the Apple Watch Ultra, but it shows points of involvement successful narration to wherever you are.

Hermes - There's a Hermes Faubourg Party ticker look for Hermes watches. It displays antithetic animations based connected the clip of day.

Ticking Seconds - More ticker faces enactment the 1Hz refresh complaint connected the Apple Watch Series 10 and later, showing a ticking 2nd manus adjacent erstwhile your wrist is down.

Gallery - The ticker look assemblage has a caller plan that groups faces into collections.

Other Features

Volume Adjustment - The measurement of incoming calls and notifications adjusts based connected the ambient dependable astir you. So if you're successful a quiescent room, your ticker won't person a ace large ring.